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Giuseppe Verdi

Perfect Tenor Recital Selections

November 6, 2018 By admin 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: http://blog.ipasource.com/2017/04/24/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

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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

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Fac me cruce custodiri from Stabat Mater  – Franz Joseph Haydn

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

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Where’Er You Walk from Semele – Georg Friedric Händel

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

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Total Eclipse from Samson – Georg Friedric Händel

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

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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

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

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

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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

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From Airs chantés by Francis Poulenc

  • Air champêtre

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

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Gebet  – Hugo Wolf

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

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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

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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

Seven arias from Giuseppe Verdi’s La battaglia di Legnano

May 17, 2018 By admin Leave a Comment

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“La Battaglia di Legnano”
Seven texts from La battaglia di Legnano, as set by Giuseppe Verdi, have recently been added to the IPA Source database.

La battaglia di Legnano is a four-act opera, with a libretto set by Salvadore Cammarano. It was first performed in January of 1849, and was commissioned by the Teatro Argentina theatre. In the 1850’s, Verdi had considered revising this opera, but never undertook the task.

Salvadore Cammarano was the librettist for  La battaglia di Legnano. Cammarano served as Verdi’s librettist for Alzira and Luisa Miller, and he collaborated with Leone Emanuele Bardare to write the libretto for Il Trovatore.

La battaglia di Legnano on IPA Source: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/v/verdi-giuseppe-1813-1901.html?search=la-battaglia-di-legnano#la-battaglia-di-legnano

Complete score on IMSLP.org: http://imslp.org/wiki/La_battaglia_di_Legnano_(Verdi,_Giuseppe)

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La battaglia di Legnano

A frenarti, o cor, nel petto (perfect for Soprano)

Ah se d’Arrigo, e di Rolando (perfect for Soprano)

Ah! m’abbraccia; d’esultanza (perfect for Baritone)

Ahi! scellerate alme d’inferno (perfect for Baritone)

La pia materna mano (perfect for Tenor)

Quante volte come un dono (perfect for Soprano)

Se al nuovo dì pugnando (perfect for Baritone)

 

The Performance

Watch the entire performance of La battaglia di Legnano from the Brott Music Festival here: https://youtu.be/KtZtyLNmN5U

Filed Under: Composers, Voice Classification Tagged With: bass, Giuseppe Verdi, Salvadore Cammarano, soprano, tenor

Five arias from Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Corsaro

May 7, 2018 By admin Leave a Comment

Verdi-photo-BrogiFive texts from Il Corsaro, as set by Giuseppe Verdi, have recently been added to the IPA Source database.

The first performance of Il Corsaro was October, 1848. The libretto for Il Corsaro was created by Francesco Maria Piave, who based it upon the poem, The Corsair, by Lord Byron.

At the time Il Corsaro was being written by Piave, Verdi had been battling illness. While some wrote that Verdi seemed to have little care about Il Corsaro, it sounds as though the opera was of great interest to him.

From wikipedia.org:

Impatient because of the delays, Piave had asked for his libretto to be returned to him in order that he might fulfill another commitment. Verdi was shocked: “Give you back Il corsaro, that Corsaro which has always fascinated me and which I’ve thought about so much, and which you’ve put into verse with more than your usual care?” 

From the IPA Source database, five arias from Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Corsaro:

  • Charles Wynne Nicholls The Parting Of Conrad And Medora
    Charles Wynne Nicholls The Parting Of Conrad And MedoraCento leggiadre vergini… S’avvicina il tuo momento

    Cento leggiadre vergini… S’avvicina il tuo momento

  • Non so le tetre immagini
  • Salve, Allah! tutta quanta la terra
  • Tutto parea sorridere… Sì: de’ corsari il fulmine
  • Vola talor dal carcere… Ah conforto è sol la speme

View our complete collection of texts as set by Giuseppe Verdi:

https://www.ipasource.com/composer/v/verdi-giuseppe-1813-1901.html

Filed Under: Composers Tagged With: composers, Giuseppe Verdi, Il Corsaro

Recently added and perfect for Baritone

April 12, 2018 By admin Leave a Comment

Vespri Siciliani-by Roberto FocosiRecently 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

 

Filed Under: Composers, Voice Classification Tagged With: baritone, composers, fach, Giuseppe Verdi, recently added, voice, voice classification, voice type

Celebrating Verdi’s birthday

October 9, 2017 By admin Leave a Comment

Giuseppi Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Frencesco Verdi was born 10/9/1813.

IPA Source offers 120 arias from 25 of the Verdi operas but did you know we also offer translations and IPA transcriptions of the complete Ricordi art song collection Compasizioni di Camera?

Score: http://imslp.org/wiki/Songs_for_Voice_and_Piano_(Verdi,_Giuseppe)

IPA: https://www.ipasource.com/composer/v/verdi-giuseppe-1813-1901.html

Listen to the songs on Naxos (subscription necessary): https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.557778

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

Filed Under: Composers Tagged With: birthday, Compasizioni di Camera, composers, Giuseppe Verdi

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