Bard Suverkrop

About Bard Suverkrop

IPA Source is written and maintained by Bard Suverkrop who holds degrees in voice and opera from the University of Cincinnati where he was the pupil of the Italian bass, Italo Tajo. Mr. Suverkrop received his advanced vocal training in Europe from Hans Hotter and Josef Metternich. After an extensive European career in opera at such opera houses as Berlin, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Hannover, and Heidelberg, he returned to the United States where he has taught voice, vocal pedagogy, diction, and opera at Butler University, Shenandoah University, Miami University, and the University of Southern California. He was a long-time member of the faculty of the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria and has acted as stage director and the Director of Theatre Arts at the Bay View Music Festival. An active recitalist, Mr. Suverkrop has been heard in concert in Europe, the United States and Asia where he has twice represented the United States in the International Friendship Concerts in Tokyo, Japan.

Celebrating the birthday of Joaquín Rodrigo, born November 22

November 22, 2017 By Bard Suverkrop Leave a Comment

Joaquín Rodrigo (born on November 22, 1901) was blind from the age of three but went on to become one of the most popular composers of the 20th century known especially for his contribution to guitar music, an instrument he never mastered.

Rodrigo has left us some 70 songs for voice and piano, 10 songs with guitar accompaniment, and a number of songs for voice and instrumental ensemble. IPA Source provides the translation and IPA for 54 of his public domain song texts and his Zarzuela, El hijo fingido.

Cuatro madrigales amatorios:

Con qué la lavaré

IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/10275/category/3374/

Listen to Eglise Gutierrez: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJssYKVJa3M

Vos me matasteis

IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/10290/category/3374/

Listen to Teresa Berganza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BycC_onZSMM

¿De dónde venís, amore?

IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/de-donde-venis-amore-11376.html

Listen to Kathleen Battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5SHd5jJPdA

De los álamos vengo, madre

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/10276/category/3374/

Listen to Montserrat Caballe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmW3mFw-esM

View our complete collection of Joaquín Rodrigo texts:

https://www.ipasource.com/composer/r/rodrigo-joaquin-1901-1999.html

Perfect for voice – 8 arias as set by Camille Saint-Saëns

November 7, 2017 By Bard Suverkrop Leave a Comment

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (10/9/1835 – 12/16/1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. He was also a poet and playwright. In his younger years, he was enthusiastic for music of the modern day, including Schumann, Wagner, and Liszt. However, he remained a traditionalist committed to musical structures by earlier French composers.

Saint-Saëns wrote in many genres, including opera, symphonies, concertos, songs, sacred & secular choral music, solo piano, & chamber music. He was a prodigy, beginning piano lessons at age two and a half, and performing at a Paris salon when he was five years of age.

Because of his commitment to historical structure, however, he was conflicted with composers of the impressionist and dodecaphonic schools of music. His later music was therefore viewed as less appealing, less colorful and more reactionary. He was still giving recitals three months before his death (he went on a concert tour of Algiers and Greece at the age of 85). When he announced his retirement in August 1921, he had been before the public for 75 years.

View our entire collection of texts as set by Camille Saint-Saëns:
https://www.ipasource.com/composer/s/saint-saens-camille-1835-1921.html

Learn more about Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns here.

Organized by opera and voice type, here are links to the IPA text for 8 arias as set by Camille Saint-Saëns. Most include listening links:

Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila

Maudite à jamais soit la race (High Priest: perfect for baritone)
IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/maudite-a-jamais-soit-la-race.html

Listen to: Ernest Blanc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WRBr3_X3ek&t=26s

Amour! viens aider ma faiblesse (Dalila: perfect for mezzo)
IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/amour-viens-aider-ma-faiblesse.html

Listen to: Tatiana Troyanos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBCCZU7nCG0

Printemps qui commence (Dalila: perfect for mezzo)
IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/printemps-qui-commence.html

Listen to: Denyce Grave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bp8P5dnAWQ

Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta voix (Dalila: perfect for mezzo)
IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/mon-coeur-s-ouvre-a-ta-voix.html

Listen to: Marilyn Horne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwynxOAoKjo

Vois, ma misère (Samson: perfect for tenor)
IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/vois-ma-misere.html

Listen to: Jon Vickers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvMlou8dcvk

Saint-Saëns: Henry VIII

Qui donc commande, quand il aime? (Henry VIII: perfect for baritone)
IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/qui-donc-commande-quand-il-aime.html

Listen to: Philippe Rouillon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocSijzQVHDo

Qui donc élève ici la voix? (Legate: perfect for bass)
IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/qui-donc-eleve-ici-la-voix.html

Saint-Säens: Oratorio de Noël

Domine, ego credidi (perfect for tenor)
IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/domine-ego-credidi.html

Listen to: Erland Hagegård
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV7650DGJ40

Are you interested in the Fach System? Check out our blog series here.

Celebrating the birthday of Vincenzo Bellini, born November 3

November 3, 2017 By Bard Suverkrop Leave a Comment

Vincenzo Bellini (born in Sicily on November 3, 1801) is perhaps best known for his 11 operas but was also an important composer of a small but influential set of art songs. Bellini’s bel canto style, with melodic elements of the music of Chopin and Liszt and clarity of form found in Haydn and Mozart, was largely admired by Verdi and Wagner. His beautiful, soaring melodies were never written solely for the music but seem always to rise from the words themselves.

On IPA Source, you will find the major arias from all Bellini’s opera and his 20 art songs including all the texts from the collection Composizioni da Camera, published by Casa Ricordi in 1935.

This post showcases some hand-selected Bellini arias and art songs from our collection, along with recommended listening links.

OPERA ARIAS

Se Romeo t’uccise un figlio (mezzo)
https://www.ipasource.com/se-romeo-t-uccise-un-figlio.html
Listen to Jennifer Larmore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi2iFAFgQzc

Vi ravviso o luoghi ameni (bass)
https://www.ipasource.com/vi-ravviso-o-luoghi-ameni.html
Listen to Cesare Siepi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyOl4TmuxO4

Ah, per sempre io ti perdei (baritone)
https://www.ipasource.com/ah-per-sempre-io-ti-perdei.html
Listen to Renato Capecchi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI8uln6mGq4

ART SONGS

Vaga luna, che inargenti
https://www.ipasource.com/vaga-luna-che-inargenti.html
Listen to Carlo Bergonzi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEcjJGzjFxQ

Malinconia, Ninfa gentile
https://www.ipasource.com/malinconia-ninfa-gentile-5415.html
Listen to Luciano Pavarotti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ellJs0xuTTc

Per pietà, bell’idol mio
https://www.ipasource.com/per-pieta-bell-idol-mio-11873.html
Listen to Cecilia Bartoli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11dr9lUaSPc

View our complete collection of Vincenzo Bellini texts:

https://www.ipasource.com/composer/b/bellini-vincenzo-1801-1835.html

Celebrating the birthday of Roger Quilter, born November 1

November 1, 2017 By Bard Suverkrop Leave a Comment

The work of composer Roger Quilter, born November 1, 1877, is often regarded as the peak in the English tradition of sensitive romanticism. His harmonies are occasionally rich but never obtrusive. Quilter is known for his many settings of Shakespeare including opus 6, with O Mistress Mine, Come Away, Death, and Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind. IPA Source presents 35 of Quilter’s most famous songs with IPA transcriptions in Mid-Atlantic speech noting both British and American pronunciation variants.

Here, a few hand-selected texts with listening links:

Love’s Philosophy

https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/10510/category/3578/

Listen to the poem spoken by Tom O’Bedlam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaM2a-Yz-gA

Listen to Quilter’s setting by the incomparable Dame Janet Baker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3CDDaMAoQk

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

https://www.ipasource.com/blow-blow-thou-winter-wind-10563.html

Listen to Bryn Terfel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdtsRTTw1jE

The Faithless Shepherdess

https://www.ipasource.com/the-faithless-shepherdess.html

Listen to Barbara Bonney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPiuVgY-NvM

Go, Lovely Rose

https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/10509/category/3578/

Listen to Mark Stone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A93rs_a7pjs

View our complete collection of Roger Quilter texts:

Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/q/quilter-roger-1877-1953.html

November composer birthdays

November 1, 2017 By Bard Suverkrop Leave a Comment

We’re celebrating 14 composer birthdays during the month of November. Each composer has a link to our entire collection of texts for that individual.

Roger Quilter, born 11/01/1877
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/q/quilter-roger-1877-1953.html

Vincenzo Bellini, born 11/03/1801
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/b/bellini-vincenzo-1801-1835.html

Johann Nepomuk Hummel, born 11/14/1778
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/h/hummel-ferdinand-1855-1928.html

Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, born 11/14/1805
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/h/hensel-fanny-mendelssohn-1805-1847.html

We featured Fanny’s brother, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, in October. Check out all our posts on Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy here, and expect to see Fanny Hensel featured in a future month on this blog.

Paul Hindemith, born 11/16/1895
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/h/hindemith-paul-1895-1963.html

Conradin Kreutzer, born 11/22/1780
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/k/kreutzer-conradin-1780-1849.html

Joaquín Rodrigo, born 11/22/1901
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/r/rodrigo-joaquin-1901-1999.html

Lord Benjamin Britten, born 11/22/1913
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/b/britten-benjamin-1913-1976.html

Manuel De Falla, born 11/23/1876
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/f/falla-manuel-de-1876-1946.html

Johann Friedrich Reichardt, born 11/25/1752
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/r/reichardt-johann-friedrich-1752-1814.html

Virgil Thomson, born 11/25/1897
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/t/thomson-virgil-1896-1989.html

Jean-Baptiste Lully, born 11/28/1632
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/l/lully-jean-baptiste-1632-1687.html

Anton Rubinstein, born 11/28/1829
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/r/rubinstein-anton-grigoryevich-1829-1894.html

Gaetano Donizetti (portrait by Giuseppe Rillosi) — Gaetano Donizetti

Gaetano Donizetti, born 11/29/1797
Our collection: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/d/donizetti-gaetano-1797-1848.html

We featured Gaetano Donizetti in August. Check out all our posts on Donizetti, including collections hand-curated by Fach / voice type here.

Duets set by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

October 14, 2017 By Bard Suverkrop Leave a Comment

Although the primary role of IPA Source is to present aria and song texts for solo numbers, since many composers also set texts small ensembles, translations and IPA transcriptions can also be found to many great duets. Be sure to check out the duets by Felix Mendelssohn which are suitable for singers of all levels and voice types.

Born Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), he was widely known as Felix Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn was a German composer, pianist, and organist during the early Romantic period.

Learn more about Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy via Wikipedia here.

Link to Mendelssohn’s Six Duets for Two Voices, opus 63:

https://www.ipasource.com/composer/m/mendelssohn-bartholdy-felix-1809-1847.html?search=op-063-duets#op-063-duets

Link to score on IMSLP:

http://imslp.org/wiki/6_Duets,_Op.63_(Mendelssohn,_Felix)

Listening links:

Eileen Farrell & Beverly Sills in Concert – Mendelssohn duets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MOdPSsINjU

From our collection:

1. Abschiedslied der Zugvögel – https://www.ipasource.com/abschiedslied-der-zugvogel.html
2. Gruß – https://www.ipasource.com/gruss.html
3. Herbstlied – https://www.ipasource.com/herbstlied-ach-wie-so-bald-verhallet-der-reigen.html

Interested in more posts about Felix Mendelssohn? Click here for more.