Voice Classification

Attendees at a vocal recital fall into several categories: fans of the music; followers, family, or friends of the vocalist; those who wish to see or assess the singer’s performance; those who were brought along with someone else to the recital; and those who are needing persuasion.

Therefore, the preparation for a vocal recital – whether it’s a Junior Recital, Senior Recital, Graduate Recital, Elective Recital or some other type of recital performance – should be undertaken with a great deal of care.

IPA Source offers more than 12,000 International Phonetic Alphabet translations of opera arias, art songs, and Latin texts. Assembled in this post are a collection of texts for possible inclusion in a Baritone Recital. We’ve organized these recommendations by arias, composers, and finally include details and links to those texts from this list that appear in our database.

Arias

• Donne mie la fate a tanti (from Così fan tutte)
• Hai già vinta la causa…Vedrò mentr’io sospiro (from Le nozze di Figaro)
• Mach dich, mein Herze rein (from Matthäuspassion)
• ¡Mi aldea! (from the zarzuela Los Gavilanes)

Art Songs

Adams

• Prayer

Bach

• Mach dich, mein Herze rein

Bliss

• It Is Well

Copland

• Long Time Ago

Debussy

• Fleur des blés

Faurè

• Les roses d’Ispahan

Guerrero

• ¡Mi aldea!

Massenet

• Les fleurs

Moore

• Warm as the Autumn Light (from The Ballad of Baby Doe)

Mozart

• Donne mie la fate a tanti
• Hai già vinta la causa…Vedrò mentr’io sospiro

Pfitzner

Fünf Lieder, op. 9 

• Die Einsame 
• Im Herbst
• Der Kühne
• Abschied

Rorem

• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
• O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
• Look Down, Fair Moon
• The Lordly Hudson
• Early in the Morning

Santoloquido

I Canti Della Sera

• L’assiolo canta
• Alba di luna sul bosco
• Tristezze crepuscolare
• L’Incontro

Strauss

• Traum durch die Dämmerung

Traditional Spiritual

• I Want Jesus to Walk with Me
• Over My Head

From our collection

Donne mie la fate a tanti
Guglielmo’s aria from the opera Così fan tutte (baritone)
Text by Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838)
Set by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
https://www.ipasource.com/donne-mie-la-fate-a-tanti.html

Listen to American baritone, Thomas Hampson:

Fünf Lieder, op. 9

Abendlich schon rauscht der Wald (Abschied)
Text by Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff (1788-1857)
Set by Zdenko Antonín Václav Fibich (1850-1900), Abschied, H. 171, #2; Robert Franz (1815-1892),
Abends, op. 16, #4; Ferdinand von Hiller (1811-1885), Abschied, op. 25, #5; Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
(1805-1847), from Gartenlieder, op. 3, #5; Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869-1949), Abschied, op. 9, #5 (1894-
5); Max Reger (1873-1916), Abschied, from Zehn Lieder für Männerchor, op. 83, #9; Heinrich Reimann
(1850-1906), Abschied, op. 3. #1; Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957), Abschied, op. 20, #7
https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/7075/category/957/

Wohin ich geh’ und schaue (Der Gärtner)
Text by Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff (1788-1857)
Set by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Der Gärtner, op. 17, #3; Robert Franz (1815-1892), Der
vielschönen Fraue, op. 10, #4; Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847), Gruß, op. 63,
#3; Hans Erich Pfitzner (1869-1949), Der Gärtner, op. 9, #1; Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957), Der Gärtner,
op. 20, #11
https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/7062/category/957/

Im Herbst (In Autumn) 
Text by Josef Karl Benedikt von Eichendorff (1788-1857)
Set by Eduard Lassen (1830-1904), op. 45, #3; Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805-1847); Hans Erich
Pfitzner (1869-1949), op. 9, #3
https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/7069/category/957/

Fleur des blés (Flowers of wheat)
Text by André Girod
Set by Claude Debussy (1862-1918), set in 1891
https://www.ipasource.com/fleur-des-bles-6005.html

Les roses d’Ispahan
Text by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894)
Set by César Antonovich Cui (1835-1918), Les roses d’Ispahan, op. 54, #4; Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924),
op. 39, #4
https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/5299/category/31/

O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
Text by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) (Am)
Set by Ned Rorem (1923-) (Am), from 5 Songs to Poems – Texts by Walt Whitman, #2
https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/11014/category/4505/

Look Down, Fair Moon
Text by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) [Am]
Set by Ned Rorem (1923-) [Am], from 5 Songs to Poems – Texts by Walt Whitman, #4; from Five Poems
of Walt Whitman, #3
https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/11016/category/4505/

As Adam, Early in the Morning
Text by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) (Am)
Set by Ned Rorem (1923-) (Am), from 5 Songs to Poems – Texts by Walt Whitman, #1
https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/11008/category/4505/

Listen to American baritone, Nathan Gunn:

Hai già vinta la causa!… Vedrò mentr’io sospiro
Count Almaviva’s aria from the opera Le nozze di Figaro (baritone)
Text by Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838)
Set by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/740/category/890/

Listen to Sir Bryn Terfel Jones, a Welsh bass-baritone opera and concert singer:

Traum durch die Dämmerung (Dream at twilight)
Text by Otto Julius Bierbaum (1865-1910)
Set by Max Reger (1873-1916), op. 35, #3; Richard Strauss (1864-1949), op. 29, #1
https://www.ipasource.com/traum-durch-die-dammerung-9706.html

Mache dich, mein Herze, rein
#64-65, recitative and aria for bass from the Matthäuspassion, (St. Matthew Passion), BWV 244
Text by Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander) (1700-1764), based on Matthäus 26-27
Set by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
https://www.ipasource.com/mache-dich-mein-herze-rein.html

¡Mi aldea!
Juan’s aria from the zarzuela Los Gavilanes  (baritone)
Text by José Ramos Martín (1892-1974)
Set by Jacinto Guerrero (1895-1951)
https://www.ipasource.com/mi-aldea.html