Cheryl Frances-Hoad's One Life Stand for Mezzo-Soprano with Piano accompaninment sets a text by Sophie Hannah.

'The idea for One Life Stand originated from adiscussion over lunch in Cambridge with my friend Jennifer Johnston. She was bemoaning the fact that, although she loved to sing Schumann’s Frauen-Liebe und Leben (Women’s Lives and Loves), and was alwaysbeing asked to do so, she did find Chamisso’s...