Always Remember Us This Way” is a song from the 2018 film A Star Is Born and its soundtrack of the same name, performed by the film’s star Lady Gaga. It was released as soundtrack’s second single in Italy and France in January 2019. The song was written by Lady Gaga, Natalie Hemby, Hillary Lindsey, […]
Walk On By
Walk On By” is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for singer Dionne Warwick in 1963. The original version of “Walk On By” by Dionne Warwick was recorded at Bell Sound Studios in New York City, the same late November/early December 1963 session that yielded her hit “Anyone Who Had a Heart”. […]
Chantal Chamberland
Chantal Chamberland is a Canadian singer .Chantal Chamberland is currently living in Montreal and is a jazz singer . Her albums include Dripping Indigo and Serendipity Street from her 2004 album , which contains jazz standards and fine French songs by Edith Piaf and Jacques Brel , while her album The Other Woman from her […]
If You Go Away
“If You Go Away” is Rod McKuen’s English-language version of the 1959 Jacques Brel song “Ne me quitte pas”. Created as part of a larger project to bring Brel’s work into English, “If You Go Away” is considered a pop standard and has been recorded by many artists, including Greta Keller, for whom some say […]
Chopin – Étude Op. 10, No. 3
Étude Op. 10, No. 3, in E major, is a study for solo piano composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1832. It was first published in 1833 in France, Germany, and England as the third piece of his Études Op. 10. This is a slow cantabile study for polyphonic and expressive legato playing. In fact, Chopin […]
Listz – Liebesträume
Liebesträume (German, ‘Dreams of Love’) is a set of three solo piano nocturnes (S.541/R.211) by Franz Liszt published in 1850. Originally the three Liebesträume were conceived as lieder after poems by Ludwig Uhland and Ferdinand Freiligrath. In 1850 two versions appeared simultaneously as a set of songs for high voice and piano, and as transcriptions […]
Brigette Bardot
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot, who died on the 28 December 2025 aged 91, was often referred to by her initials B.B., She was a French actress, singer, model and animal rights activist. Famous for portraying characters with hedonistic lives, she was one of the best known symbols of the sexual revolution. Although she withdrew from the […]
Purcell – Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary
The English composer Henry Purcell wrote funeral music that includes his Funeral Sentences and the later Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, Z 860. Two of the funeral sentences, “Man that is born of a woman” Z. 27 and “In the midst of life we are in death” Z. 17, survive in autograph score. The Music for […]
Vivaldi – Nisi Dominus (Cum Dederit)
Nisi Dominus, RV 608, is a musical setting by Antonio Vivaldi of Psalm 127 (Vulgate 126), intended for Vespers. His score, written c. 1715, calls for alto voice, strings and organ or harpsichord. The alto part may be taken by (female) contralto or (male) countertenor. Vivaldi would again set this psalm, but with three voice-parts […]
Schubert – Ständchen (Serenade)
“Ständchen” (known in English by its first line “Hark, hark, the lark“), D 889, is a lied for solo voice and piano by Franz Schubert, composed in July 1826 in the village of Währing (now a suburb of Vienna). It is a setting of the “Song” in Act 2, scene 3 of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. The song was first […]