Baerenreiter Album of Opera Choruses for Mixed Choir
– Prólogo (alemán/inglés) que sitúa los coros en su contexto dramático e incluye sugerencias de estudio e interpretación.
– Notas sobre la pronunciación del texto de la canción rusa.
Este álbum para coro mixto y piano contiene una selección de coros ricamente variados de óperas italianas, francesas, alemanas, inglesas y rusas de los siglos XVII al XIX, que iluminan la gran diversidad del género.
· Vorwort
· Preface
· Composer / Author: Monteverdi, Claudio
“Vieni Imeneo – Lasciate i monti, lasciate i fonti” from “L’Orfeo”
Instrumentation: Mixed choir (SATTB), Piano
Librettist: Striggio, Alessandro (junior)
· Composer / Author: Händel, Georg Friedrich
“Smiling Venus, queen of love” from “Acis and Galatea HWV 49b”
Instrumentation: Mixed choir (SATB), Piano
Librettist: nach John Gay, John Hughes, Alexander Pope und Nicola Giuvo
· Composer / Author: Gluck, Christoph Willibald
“Regna a noi con lieta sorte” from “Alceste (Wiener Fassung 1767)”
Instrumentation: Mixed choir (SATB), Piano
Librettist: Calzabigi, Ranieri de’
· Composer / Author: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
“Placido è il mar, andiamo” from “Idomeneo KV 366”
Instrumentation: Mixed choir (SATB), Piano
Librettist: Varesco, Giambattista
· Composer / Author: Schubert, Franz
“Lasst Friede in die Hallen des Fürstensitzes ziehn” from “Fierabras D 796”
Instrumentation: Mixed choir (SATB), Piano
Librettist: Kupelwieser, Josef
· Composer / Author: Bellini, Vincenzo
“Guerra, guerra!” from “Norma”
Instrumentation: Mixed choir (SATB), Piano
Librettist: Romani, Felice (nach Alexandre Soumet)
· Composer / Author: Saint-Saëns, Camille
“L’aube qui blanchit déjà les coteaux” from “Samson et Dalila”
Instrumentation: Mixed choir (SATB), Piano
Librettist: Lemaire, Ferdinand
· Composer / Author: Bizet, Georges
“Les voici, voici la quadrille !”from “Carmen”
Instrumentation: Children’s choir, Mixed choir (SATB), Piano
Librettist: Meilhac, Henri / Halévy, Ludovic (nach Prosper Mérimée)
· Composer / Author: Tschaikowsky, Pjotr Iljitsch
“Bolijat moi skory nožen’ki“ from “Evgenij Onegin / Eugene Onegin”
Instrumentation: Mixed choir (SATB), Piano
Librettist: Schilowsky, Konstantin / Tschaikowsky, Modest Iljitsch / Tschaikowsky, Pjotr Iljitsch (nach Alexander Puschkin)
· Zur Aussprache des russischen Gesangstextes
· Pronunciation of the Russian Song Text