The Chester Vocal Anthology - Tenor

24 songs for tenor voice with piano accompaniment featuring selected works from the major exam board syllabuses for grade 5 onwards. The preface and performance notes are by English tenor James Gilchrist and pianist Anna Tilbrook (who have worked extensively together and recorded on Chandos, Linn Records and Orchid Classics), and a digital version of the book can be viewed on any device is included.

Thomas Arne: Where The Bee Sucks

Johann Sebastian Bach: Mein Verlangen ist, den Heiland zu umfangen (from Komm, du süsse Todesstunde, BWV 161)

Samuel Barber: Sure On This Shining Night (from Four Songs)

Lennox Berkeley: The Riverside Village (from Five Chinese Songs)

Georges Bizet: Chanson D'Avril

Nadia Boulanger: Soleils Couchants

Ernest Chausson: Sérénade Italienne (from Sept mélodies, Op. 2)

Madeleine Dring: It Was A Lover And His Lass

Antonín Dvorák: Jsem Jako Lípa Košatá (Like To A Linden Tree Am I)

Gabriel Fauré: Les Roses d'Isphahan (from Quatre mélodies, Op. 39)

William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan: Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast (from Pirates of Penzance)

Richard Hageman: Do Not Go, My Love

Reynaldo Hahn: L'Heure exquise (from Sept chansons grises)

Reynaldo Hahn: C'est à Paris! (from La Dame aux Camélias)

George Frideric Handel: Where'er You Walk (from Semele, HWV 58)

Joseph Haydn: Piercing Eyes, Hob. XXVIa:35

Victor Hely-Hutchinson: Old Mother Hubbard

Michael Hurd: Prayer (from Carmina Amoris)

Franz Liszt: Du Bist Wie Eine Blume, S. 287

Felix Mendelssohn: Be Thou Faithful Unto Death (from Paulus, Op. 36)

Fernando Obradors: Con Amores, La Mi Madre

Charles Wilfred Orr: Into My Heart An Air that Kills (from A Shropshire Lad)

Henry Purcell: Ah! How Sweet It Is To Love (from Tyrannic Love, or The Royal Martyr, Z. 613)

Franz Schubert: An Sylvia, D. 891, Op. 106, No. 4

Ian Venables: Because I Liked You Better (from Songs of Eternity and Sorrow, Op.36a)