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Charles Gounod

Perfect Tenor Recital Selections

November 6, 2018 By Nora Miller Rubinoff Leave a Comment

Voice recitals are part of a voice student’s degree fulfillment requirements. Whether you are preparing for a Junior Recital, Senior Recital, or Graduate Recital, identifying and grouping texts to display your vocal skill is key. Texts may be selected and grouped by language, emotion, or level of difficulty. Texts may also be selected and grouped by composer or as a cycle of work from a single composer.

Although we often see a division in the Lyric Tenor Fach, there are technically only five Fächer for the tenor voice. (Want to learn more about the Fäch System and tenor voice? View our multi-part series on the Fäch System here: https://blog.ipasource.com2017/04/24/the-fach-system-the-tenor-voice/)

Grouped by Aria and Art Song, this post offers texts for a tenor voice performer to consider including in a recital program.

Arias

Deposuit potentes from Magnificat, BWV 243 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Listen to Francisco Araiza:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wel2444olaQ

…

Frohe Hirten, eilt, ach eilet from the Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248 by J.S. Bach

Listen to Fritz Wunderlich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L03yopokHlY

…

Fac me cruce custodiri from Stabat Mater  – Franz Joseph Haydn

Listen to Andrea Semerar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyTSJPTo4AQ

…

Where’Er You Walk from Semele – Georg Friedric Händel

Listen to Richard Lewis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7DXssuBNck

…

Total Eclipse from Samson – Georg Friedric Händel

Listen to Jon Vickers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU4MZxe9beU

…

Jour et nuit je me mets en quatre from Les Contes d’Hoffmann  – Jacques Offenbach

Listen to Francois Testory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FckaKGzUR5Q

…

De’ miei bollenti spiriti…, from La traviata – Guiseppe Verde

Listen to Luciano Pavarotti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpluE_l-aHk

…

Salut! demeure chaste et pure, from Faust – Charles Gounod

Listen to Jonas Kaufmann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8K-gUwc330

Art Songs

Selections from Winterreise  – Franz Schubert

  • Gute Nacht
  • Wasserflut
  • Die Post

Listen to Ian Bostridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAShNLQzyxI

…

From Airs chantés by Francis Poulenc

  • Air champêtre

Listen to Nicolai Gedda:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPFDatjGMIc

…

Gebet  – Hugo Wolf

Listen to Werner Güra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyiffjMDCwc

…

Lachen und Weinen – Franz Schubert

Listen to Ian Partridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBfmB9XfL4w

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Verborgenheit – Hugo Wolf

Listen to Rudolf Schock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTVI6XAe_YU

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Zueignung – Richard Strauss

Listen to Jonas Kaufmann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Ls0XtqZ-Q

…

Aimons-nous – Camille Saint-Saëns

Listen to Charles Rousselière: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-ZHqkELzNc

Filed Under: Featured, Voice Classification Tagged With: Amy Beach, Benjamin Britten, Camille Saint-Saëns, Charles Gounod, Francis Poulenc, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Georg Friedrich Händel, Giulio Caccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Hugo Wolf, Jacques Offenbach, Johann Sebastian Bach, recital, Richard Strauss, Robert Burns, tenor, voice type

Selected texts by Charles Gounod, hand-curated by voice type

June 13, 2017 By Nora Miller Rubinoff Leave a Comment

Charles Gounod (1890) by Nadar
Charles Gounod (June 17, 1818 – October 18, 1893)
We’re celebrating the birthday of Charles Gounod this month. Gounod was born June 17, 1818. Here, categorized by voice type / Fach, are some hand-selected texts from our database, along with recommended recordings.

ARIAS

Soprano

Faust: Il était un roi de Thulé

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/254/category/557/

Recording: Maria Callas – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=288u-gTn7kk

 

Mireille: Heureux petit berger

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/268/category/557/

Recording: Andrée Esposito – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT74-Yzk5dQ

 

Mireille: Ô légère hirondelle

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/273/category/557/

Recording: Renee Fleming – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDyv_dir-0c

 

Roméo et Juliette: Amour, ranime mon courage

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/265/category/557/

Recording: Natalie Dessay – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVLkP9tuhsc

 

Roméo et Juliette: Je veux vivre

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/261/category/557/

Recording: Anna Netrebko – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsHKWGHkH0M

 

MEZZO-SOPRANO

Faust: Faites-lui mes aveux

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/256/category/557/

Recording: Jennifer Larmore– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDxAGsyPDvM

 

Faust: Si le bonheur

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/266/category/557/

Recording: Marta Złotnicka – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPGLr9Dwl2A

 

Le Médecin malgré lui: Toute femme tient

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/12050/category/557/

Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF5flehVJFI

 

Roméo et Juliette: Que fais-tu, blanche tourterelle?

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/263/category/557/

Recording: Cora Burggraaf – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmNj-HTI-Wg

 

Sapho: Ô ma lyre immortelle

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/269/category/557/

Recording: Marilyn Horne – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkE_lzXI6sM

 

TENOR

Faust: Salut demeure chaste et pure

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/258/category/557/

Recording: Juan Diego Florez – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V-JAe0ovKM

 

Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cécile: Sanctus

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/270/category/557/

Recording: Renato Parachinetto – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcHHfAI8KvM

 

Mireille: Anges du paradis

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/264/category/557/

Recording: Rolando Villazon – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H31NFrD3OM

 

Roméo et Juliette: Ah leve toi soleil

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/260/category/557/

Recording: Nicolai Gedda – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsUpah3ghIo

 

Roméo et Juliette: Salut! tombeau sombre et silencieux!

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/12035/category/557/

Recording: Roberto Alagna – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sysIzvR9Q8

 

BARITONE

Faust: Avant de quitter ces lieux

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/255/category/557/

Recording: Dmitri Hvorostovsky – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuVSGjLkUcs

 

BASS

Faust: Le veau d’or

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/257/category/557/

Recording: Nicolai Ghiaurov – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5uZ30IO-kE

 

Faust: Vous qui faites l’endormie

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/259/category/557/

Recording: George London – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLAPsKoOV4g

 

La reine de Saba: Sous les pieds d’une femme

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/267/category/557/

Recording: Paul Payan – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kOETFXj60o

 

Roméo et Juliette: Buvez donc ce breuvage

IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/catalog/product/view/id/271/category/557/

Recording: Léon Rothier – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4XrbwFVgHQ

 

 

The image of Charles Gounod is By Nadar (a.k.a. Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, 1820–1910): Photographer Adam Cuerden – Restoration. [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Interested in The Fach System? Check out our blog series here.

Filed Under: Composers, Voice Classification Tagged With: Charles Gounod, composers, fach, fach system, voice, voice classification, voice type

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