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Perfect Baritone Recital Selections

September 6, 2018 By admin Leave a Comment

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

Victor Maurel-baritone-as Iago — Victor Maurel, French operatic baritone

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

Recently added and perfect for Baritone

April 12, 2018 By admin Leave a Comment

Recently added to our International Phonetic Alphabet database, In braccio alle dovizie, Monforte’s scene and aria from act three of the opera I vespri Siciliani.

Text by Eugène Scribe (1790-1861) and Charles Duveyrier (1803-1866)

Set by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Download the IPA Text: https://www.ipasource.com/in-braccio-alle-dovizie.html

Complete score: https://imslp.nl/imglnks/usimg/7/76/IMSLP517038-PMLP55448-Verdi_-_I_vespri_Siciliani_-_Act_I_(orch._score)_(etc).pdf

From wikipedia.org:

I vespri siciliani (Italian pronunciation: [i ˈvɛːspri sitʃiˈljaːni]; The Sicilian Vespers) is a five-act Italian opera originally written in French for the Paris Opéra by the Italian romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi and translated into Italian shortly after its premiere in June 1855.

Under its original title, Les vêpres siciliennes, the libretto was prepared by Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrier from their work Le duc d’Albe, which was written in 1838 and offered to Halévy and Donizetti before Verdi agreed to set it to music in 1854.

View all texts on IPA Source from I vespri Siciliani: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/v/verdi-giuseppe-1813-1901.html?search=i-vespri-siciliani#i-vespri-siciliani

View the entire collection of Verdi texts on IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/v/verdi-giuseppe-1813-1901.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.

14 texts as set by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, hand-curated by Fach

October 10, 2017 By admin Leave a Comment

From our collection of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy texts, here are 14 texts hand-curated by Fach, with listening links included.

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.

Mendelssohn is considered the greatest child prodigy after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His sister was Fanny Mendelssohn (later Fanny Hensel), who became a well-known pianist and composer.

Learn more about Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy via Wikipedia here.

14 texts as set by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

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

Eight arias from Georges Bizet’s opera, Carmen

September 1, 2017 By admin Leave a Comment

Georges Bizet’s four act opera, Carmen, was first performed in Paris in 1875. Carmen, written in the opéra comique genre, was considered unconventional at its initial release. Bizet died after its 33rd performance, never realizing the international acclaim this widely-known opera would have.

Here are eight arias from Carmen, with perfect for voice type indications, links to the full IPA text, as well as recommended listening links.

Learn more about Carmen on wikipedia here, and more about Georges Bizet here.

View our complete collection of Georges Bizet texts on IPA Source here.

Perfect for Mezzo: En vain pour éviter, Carmen’s aria from the opera Carmen

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/en-vain-pour-eviter.html
Listen to Grace Bumbry – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWiWzsWgt-M

Perfect for Tenor: Halte-là! Qui va là?, Don José’s aria from the opera Carmen

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/halte-la-qui-va-la.html
Listen to Jonas Kaufmann – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDZj-YzuRSE

Perfect for Soprano: Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante, Michaëla’s aria from the opera Carmen

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/je-dis-que-rien-ne-m-epouvante.html
Listen to Kiri Te Kanawa – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C8WNBHaTec

Perfect for Mezzo: L’amour est un oiseau rebelle, Carmen’s Habanera from the opera Carmen

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/l-amour-est-un-oiseau-rebelle.html
Listen to Elina Garanca – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1upcfFS5LAM

Perfect for Tenor: La fleur que tu m’avais jetée, Don José’s Flower Song from the opera Carmen

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/la-fleur-que-tu-m-avais-jetee.html
Listen to Placido Domingo – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLXwaq5j5eQ

Perfect for Mezzo: Les tringles des sistres tintaient, Carmen’s Gypsy Song from the opera Carmen

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/les-tringles-des-sistres-tintaient.html
Listen to Maria Ewing – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rmSF19NfvI

Perfect for Mezzo: Près des remparts de Séville, Carmen’s Seguidilla from the opera Carmen

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/pres-des-remparts-de-seville.html
Listen to Marilyn Horne – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPUmLCfdx8I

Perfect for Baritone: Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre, Escamillo’s Toreador Song from the opera Carmen

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/votre-toast-je-peux-vous-le-rendre.html
Listen to Justino Diaz – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4UMExM3v7M

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

Selected baritone arias by Gaetano Donizetti, hand-curated by Fach

August 3, 2017 By admin Leave a Comment

We continue our blog series on Donizetti with a collection of baritone arias, hand-curated by Fach and with listening links, that are available on IPA Source.

The Italian composer, Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (Gaetano Donizetti), born November 29, 1797, was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century, along Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini. It is thought that Donizetti’s close association with the bel canto style influenced other composers such as Giuseppe Verdi.

Learn more about Gaetano Donizetti via our first post in the series or via Wikipedia here.

Here, with recommended listening links and hand-curated by Fach, a selection of baritone arias available on IPA Source, as set by Gaetano Donizetti:

Arias for baritone voice – by Fach

Lyric baritone

Bella siccome un angelo, Dr. Malatesta’s aria from the opera Don Pasquale

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/bella-siccome-un-angelo.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGoMD-jwMm8

Come Paride vezzoso, Belcore’s aria from the opera L’elisir d’amore

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/come-paride-vezzoso.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIqFbCJaSLA

Full baritone

A tanto amor, Alfonso XI’s aria from La Favorita

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/a-tanto-amor.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie8tN5Syaoo

Vien, Leonora, a’ piedi tuoi, Alfonso XI’s aria from La Favorita

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/vien-leonora-a-piedi-tuoi-de-nemici-tuoi-lo-sdegno.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX0RtCFmJcA

Léonor! Viens, j’abandonne, Alfonso XI’s aria from La Favorita

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/leonor-viens-j-abandonne-leonor-mon-amour-brave.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvyPiBSQt4s

Ambo nati in questa valle, Antonio’s aria from Linda di Chamounix

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/ambo-nati-in-questa-valle.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yhvIofJAX0

Cruda, funesta smania, Enrico Ashton’s aria from Lucia di Lammermoor

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/cruda-funesta-smania-la-pietade-in-suo-favore.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnB6OB42N2M

Gemea di tetro carcere, Enrico’s aria from Maria di Rohan

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/gemea-di-tetro-carcere-se-ancor-m-e-dato-stringerti.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzIEWxT1NG0

Bella e di sol vestita, Enrico’s aria from Maria di Rohan

IPA text: https://www.ipasource.com/bella-e-di-sol-vestita-si-ma-fra-poco-di-sangue-un-rio.html
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEnNKurWBK0

Read our first post in this blog series, which contains selected soprano texts, here.

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

baritone

Arias

Art Songs

From our collection

Fünf Lieder, op. 9

Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila

Saint-Saëns: Henry VIII

Saint-Säens: Oratorio de Noël

14 texts as set by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Perfect for Soprano

Perfect for Contralto

Perfect for Baritone

Perfect for Tenor

Arias for baritone voice – by Fach

Lyric baritone

Full baritone

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