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Lute song publications:

O Mistress Mine. The third volume in Brian Wright’s project to compose new lute song settings for all the songs in Shakespeare’s plays. Nine songs for a 6-course lute and vocalist, calling for a reasonably advanced technique from both. Modern yet accessible style, with lots of mellow jazz chords.

ISBN 9870905655741, available from: The Lute Society

Audio Files:
Performed 'live' by Jeni Melia – voice & Brian Wright – lute
Lute Society Meeting in London, January 2009

O Mistress Mine, from Twelfth Night
 

The Willow Song from Othello
 

Over Hill, Over dale, from A Midsummer Night's Dream
   

When Daffodils begin to peer, from The Winters Tale
 

Who is Sylvia? from Two Gentlemen of Verona 
   

It was a Lover and his Lass, from As you like it
 

A New Varietie of Shakespeare Songs. The second installment of Brian Wright’s project to compose new settings for all the song texts in Shakespeare’s plays. The new volume consists of seven songs for voice and six-course lute, calling for intermediate technique in both, and composed in Brian Wright’s characteristically modern yet accessible style, in autograph score. ISBN 0 905655 59 1, available from: The Lute Society

Performed by Jarmila Chaloupkova – voice & Brian Wright – lute

How should I your true love know, from Hamlet

Orpheus with his lute, from Henry the 8th

When that I was and a little tiny boy, from Twelfth Night

Sigh again, Shakespeare! A collection of six songs for voice and renaissance lute setting texts by Shakespeare, in the composer’s autograph score. The accompaniments call for a 6-course lute, with a few optional diapason notes, and an intermediate level of technique.

ISBN 0 905655 51 6, available from The Lute Society

Performed by Jarmila Chaloupkova – voice & Brian Wright – lute

(sung in Czech)

 

Winter, from Love’s Labour’s Lost

 

The Spring, from Love’s Labour’s Lost

 

Under the Greenwood tree, from As you like it

 

 

MELODIES POUR COLETTE. Available from: Société Francaise de Luth

 

Audio files:

Performed by Jarmila Chaloupkova – voice & Brian Wright - lute

 

 

Berceuse, poem by Henri Chantavoine (1850 - ?)

Saison des semaille le soir

La Chanson du vent de mer, poem by Anatole le Braz (1854 – 1926)

Chanson

Les Matelots, poem by Théophile Gautier (1811 – 72)

Berceuse d'armorique

 

CLAIRE DE LUNE settings of VERLAINE

 

A  CHINESE LACHRIMAE

 

3 LYRIC POEMS OF TORQUATO TASSO

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