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ART SONG - VOICE AND PIANO

Joe.St.Johanser Op.1 - 'Three Songs of Norman MacCaig'

A song cycle for soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano. 3 songs

in all some 11 minutes- inspired by Norman MacCaig's evocative poetry - a perfect set for a recital.

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'I remember you' Song 1 of Three Songs of Norman MacCaig

Some 3 minutes duration - a Scottish loch is still as memory holds sway - then erupts as a mallard plunges in

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'I remember you - Song 1

You went away - Song 2 of Three Songs of Norman MacCaig

Some 3 minutes duration - an abandoned lover keens her misery and plots a dreadful revenge

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'You went away Song 2

Dreamworld - Song 3 of Three Songs of Norman MacCaig

Some 3 minutes duration - a mother cradles her baby and dreams of his future

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'Dreamworld' - Song 3
Joe.St.Johanser Op.3 - 'Burma Star'

A short dramatic song to a prize-winning poem of Phil Carradice.

For baritone voice and piano.

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Joe.St.Johanser Opus 6 - '6 Songs of Norman MacCaig - Bird Parade'

A song cycle for soprano and piano

6 miniature songs in all some 10 minutes

- modelled after Poulenc's 'Le Bestiaire'

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Setting of 6 short poems of Norman MacCaig - contemporary song cycle for soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano composed by contemporary classical music composer Joe St.Johanser, ideal short concert piece - witty and succinct - full of MacCaig's wry humour. Listen to the songs on youtube, here beautifully sung by Susan Jiwey brilliantly accompanied by Elizabeth Shepherd.

1. Blue Tit

2. The Diplomat (Eagle)

3. Buzzard

4. Puffin

5. Solitary Crow

6. Cock

Joe.St.Johanser 27 Songs Op.27 - 'Contemporary Art Songs'

A book of 27 songs for voice and piano - 112 pages A4 size - ISBN 978-0-9933578-0-0 setting poems of Norman MacCaig, Jane Wyatt, Christina Rossetti, John Drinkwater, Joe St.Johanser, Wm Shakespeare.

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27 Songs

For enquiries please email joe@joestjohanser.co.uk

Listen to some recordings of these songs on Joe's youtube channel - browse on the channel for others - and subscribe if you wish

'A Birthday'

'The Queen of Hearts'

'Puffin'

'I remember you'

'You went away'

'Dreamworld'

Listen on youtube to more of St.Johanser's songs - set for voice and chamber orchestra

'Enemy'

'Soprano duet'

'Goblin Fruit finale'

'Raven 3,4,5'

'Soprano Duet Goblin Market'

'Defeating Inuendo'

'Fear of Flying'

'The Year of the Green Parrots'

'Doppler Shift'

Op.30 - 'More Contemporary Art Songs'

A book of 18 songs for voice and piano - 72 pages A4 size - ISBN 978-0-9933578-1-7. setting poems of Norman MacCaig, Robert Browning, Jane Wyatt, Wm Shakespeare, Joe St.Johanser. Joe.St.Johanser Joe.St.Johanser

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18 Songs

18 Songs

18 Songs

27 Songs

For enquiries please email joe.st.johanser@ntlworld.com

Listen on youtube to some of these songs - set for voice and piano

'Nude in a Fountain'

'Buzzard Circling, Solitary Crow included in 6 MacCaig Songs'

Listen on youtube to more of St.Johanser's songs from this book but set and recorded for voice and chamber orchestra

'Home thoughts from the sea'

'Fear of Flying'

'Caliban's Aria - All the infections'

'Sea shanty - I shall no more to sea'

'Prospero's Farewell Aria'

'The Crocodile -included in 4 short sonmgs fpor children'

Listen on youtube to more of St.Johanser's songs set and recorded for voice and chamber orchestra and not yet transcribed for voice and piano

'Enemy'

'Soprano duet'

'Goblin Fruit finale'

'Raven 3,4,5'

'Soprano Duet Goblin Market'

'Defeating Inuendo'

'The Year of the Green Parrots'

'Doppler Shift'

For enquiries please email joe.st.johanser@ntlworld.com

Joe.St.Johanser Opus 9 - 'The Rose Red Chain'

An extended aria for soprano and piano setting the Shakespeare poem 'Venus and Adonis'

duration 12 minutes

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Sung by Susan Jiwey accompanied by Elizabeth Shepherd

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Opus 12 - 'Nude in a Fountain' - setting of a poem of Norman MacCaig - for voice and piano.

an art song setting a witty poem by Norman MacCaig for soprano or mezzo-soprano by contemporary classical music composer Joe St.Johanser, ideal 4 minute recital piece.

'Nude in a Fountain' - a municipal park in summer heat at lunchtime - the pudicity of the stone Venus.

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Sung by Susan Jiwey accompanied by Elizabeth Shepherd

Joe.St.Johanser Opus 19 -'Three Jovial Songs of Christina Rossetti'

A short song cycle for voice and piano -3 songs in all some 9 minutes

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'The Queen of Hearts' - Song 2

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A Birthday

Queen of Hearts

Op.29 - 'Four Short Songs for Children'

A simple song cycle for a child's voice and piano. Joe.St.Johanser 4 songs in all some 5 minutes- inspired by evocative poetry by children's authors- from Lewis Carroll. Amy Lowell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Christina Rossetti-a perfect set for a short recital.

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Listen on youtube to the songs - with a cor anglais standing in for the child's voice.

Four short songs for children

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Serially at Sea' comedy art song for baritone and piano

composed by contemporary classical music composer Joe St.Johanser,

ideal for a recital encore

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'Seriously at Sea

Three More Songs of Norman MacCaig

A song cycle for voice and piano

3 songs in all some 11 minutes- inspired by Norman MacCaig's evocative poetry - published by Chatto and Windus - a perfect set for a recital

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