Elizabeth Parcells

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Night and Dreams (1990) Play list  Translations

       MAURO GIULIANI (1781-1829)
       Ariette Opus 95
       Ombre amene, amiche piante  Score  
         Fra tutte le pene  Score 
      Quando sarà quel dì  Score  
         Le dimore amor non ama  Score

       LOUIS SPOHR (1784-1859)
       Lieder Opus 72
       Frühlingsglaube
      Schifferlied der Wasserfee 
      Beruhigung

       LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
      Adelaide, Op. 46

       FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828)
       Gott im Frühling D. 448  Score
      Nacht und Träume D. 827 (Op. 43-2) 
      Der Wanderer D. 493 (Op. 4-1)
      Abschied von der Harfe D. 406

       JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)
       from "DEUTSCHE VOLKSLIEDER"
       Es steht ein Lind in jenem Tal  Score
         Es ritt ein Ritter  Score
         Da unten im Tale  Score
        Sandmännchen  Comment

HODIE CHRISTUS NATUS EST (1994)  Play list  Comment 

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       BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1915-1976)

       from "A Ceremony of Carols" Opus 28
       01 Hodie Christus Natus Est
      02 There is no rose
      03 That yonge child
      04 Balulalow

       MICHAEL PRAETORIUS (1571-1621)
       05 Es ist ein Ros entsprungen

       Chorale Variations on "In Dulci Jubilo"
       06 Bicinium
      07 Tricinium
      08 Imitatio
      09 Simpliciter

       JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
       10 Ihr Gestirn, ihr hohen Lüfte
      11 Sarabande
      12 Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier
      13 O Jesulein süß
      14 Allemande
      15 Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern

       JOHN JACOB NILES (1894-1980)
       16 I wonder as I wander
      17 Lulle, lullay and lullabye
      18 Carol of the Birds

       BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1915-1976)
       19 The Birds
 

Songs of the Half-Light (1994)  Play list Comment     

       SIR LENNOX BERKELEY (1903-1989)
       Songs of the Half-Light
       01 Rachel
      02 Full Moon
      03 All that's past
      04 The Moth
      05 The Fleeting

       THEA MUSGRAVE (b. 1928)
       Five Love Songs
      06 Except I love
      07 Oh Love, how strangely sweet
      08 Poor is the life
      09 Weep eyes, break heart
      10 The spring of joy is dry

       DANIEL PINKHAM (b. 1923)
       Antiphons
      11 Orietur sicut sol
      12 O Gabriel
      13 O Oriens
      14 O Emmanuel
      15 O Rex pacifice
      16 O mundi Domina
      17 O Jerusalem

       DAVID LIESNER
       Confiding
      18  Savior! I've no one else to tell Emily Dickinson
       19  Ample make this Bed Emily Dickinson
       20  Wild Nights Emily Dickinson
       21  Signal Elissa Ely 
      22  Star-crossed Elissa Ely
       23  The Lady to her Guitar Emily Brontë
       24  Love and Friendship Emily Brontë
       25  To Imagination Emily Brontë
       26  Faith Emily Brontë
       27  This is my letter to the World Emily Brontë

More Songs (1989)  Play list 

       ANTON DIABELLI (1781-1858)
       from Rossini's opera Tancredi,
       arranged for guitar and voice by Diabelli
       "Di tanti palpiti"  score

       JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)
       from Deutsche Volklieder
       Die Sonne scheint nicht mehr 
      Och Moder ich well en Ding han

       JOACHIM RODRIGO (1901-1999)
       Three Spanish Songs
       En Jerez de la frontera
      Adela
      De Ronda

       FELICITAS KUKUCK (1914-2001)
       from Liebeslieder  comments
          Grab mir Geliebter ein Bett in den Schnee
     Er hat entdeckt das seine Seele
     Als ich mein Herz an dich verlor
     Treibhaus

      Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
      Heidenröslein

1987 Songs Play List

       JOHN DOWLAND (1536-1626) 
      Come heavy sleep
      Come again

       FERENC FARKAS (1905–2000)
       Cinque Canzoni die Trovatori 

     JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
       Präludium E Dur
      Dir, dir Jehova, will ich singen
      Bist du bei mir
      Wilst du dein Herz mir schenken 

       MAURO GIULIANA (1781-1829)
       Cavatine (opus 39)
       Par che di giubilo
      Giá presso al termine 

       JACQUES BONDON (b. 1927)
       Les Beaux Etés s'en sont allés
      Toi l'Oiseau 

       FELICITAS KUKUCK (1914-2001)
       Drei Mädchenlieder
       Der Spinnerin-Lied
      An die Waldvögel
      Lebe wohl

    *JOHN JACOB NILES (1892-1980)
       Go 'way from my window (1909)
      Carol of the Birds (1919)
       *Arrangement Peter Faust, 12 string guitar Elizabeth Parcells
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The Duo for Voice and Guitar was formed by Elizabeth Parcells and Felix Justen in 1986.  Since then, we have performed hundreds of concerts and made recordings of the wonderful music written for voice and guitar by great composers.  Our music  spans the centuries and styles up to the present day.  The universal appeal of the lovely classical guitar and sweet soprano singing is compelling.

The Artists:  Elizabeth Parcells is an internationally acclaimed coloratura soprano, whom you can meet on the Home page. 

Felix Justen, guitarist, born in 1955 in Germany, began his formal guitar studies with Michael Weigand at the Dr. Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main.  He went on to study in soloist classes with Prof. Michael Teuchert at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt. 

Along with his activity as a guitar soloist, he works in a number of chamber music combinations, accompanying various instrumentalists including flutists, harpists and singers.  He is a highly respected and effective music teacher in his home town of Limburg as his dozens of students will affirm.  His work draws on his multiple talents in arranging, composition, and playing in several musical genres.

His ten year collaboration with Elizabeth Parcells on the Duo for Voice and Guitar produced many, many recitals and concerts in Europe and the USA.  The Duo was featured at the festival at Wolfegg and the auspicious Rheingau Festival in Germany. Under the sponsorship of the Pro Musicis Foundation in New York, the pair played in the Opera Comique in Paris and the Medici Palace in Rome, and most recently, in Carnegie Recital Hall in New York. 

The recordings presented here on the website represent their most important repertoire and musical work which earned them so much critical acclaim. 

We use guitars built especially for the Duo by Nicolaus Wolff of Germany to our specifications.  Our recordings were all engineered by Werner Michel of Ramstadt Germany to the highest of fidelity standards

We hope you enjoy hearing our collection of mp3 sound bytes from our CD productions.