Arias for Soprano-Diction lessons on each aria in the series recorded by top language coaches from the Metropolitan Opera and the Juilliard School plus International Phonetic Alphabet and word for word translationsWith these book/CDpackages that match the standard aria collections edited by Robert L. Larsen any singer anywhere has access to the best diction coaching available at a very affordable price. Each aria is recorded twice. In the first version thecoach recites the text as an actor would speak it showing flow of the language and the mood. The second version is a slow deliberate lesson allowing time for the student to repeat each line. These experienced language coachesadapt the ?R? in German and French in the slow versions for singers. They also are very sensitive to liaisons between word sounds in the musical settings. The book includes International Phonetic Alphabet for each ariaand word for word translations.The native speaking professional diction coaches from the Metropolitan Opera and the Juilliard School are: Corradina Caporello for Italian Pierre Vallet for French Irene Spiegelmanfor German Kathryn LaBouff for English Yveta Synek Graff for Czech and Gina Levinson for Russian. Companion to 50481097 Arias for Soprano.

Broken Branches is a short 3 minute song/meditation for soprano piano and double bass. It was written for a concert in New York in 1993 which featured a whole programme of political songs; composers were left free tochoose their own subject matter. The conflict in the former Yugoslavia was then at one of its many furious peaks and Weir made a transcription from a recording of a sad choral song from Croatia called zaspo Janko podjablonem. Work for Soprano Piano and Double Bass.

This series was designed to supplement traditional vocal instruction and works perfectly as preparatory literature for The First Book of Solos and The First Book of Solos Part II.Each piece is in Englishand has a limited vocal range as well as a piano accompaniment that is playable by a student pianist. The pieces include art songs folksongs humorous songs and suitable vintage popular songs and are all appropriate for contestsolos. The accompanying CD includes professionally-recorded accompaniments. Soprano Contents: Alice Blue Gown · April Showers · Butterflies (Schulz) · Cradle Song (Brahms) · Evening Prayer from Hansel and Gretel(Humperdinck) · The False Prophet (Scott) · Florian's Song (Godard) · Golden Slumbers (English folksong) · It Was a Lover and His Lass (Austin) · Ladybird (Schumann) · The Lilac Tree (Gartlin) · The Little Sandman (arr. Brahms) ·My Little Heart (Weckerlin) · The Nightingale (Alabieff) · Oh! Dear What Can the Matter Be? (16th Century) · Oh Pretty Birds (Rigel) · The Rosebush (Himmel) · The Sweetest Flower that Blows (Hawley) · Two Marionettes (Cooke) ·The Willow Song (16th Century) · The Willow Tree (arr. Reimann) · The Winter It Is Past (arr. Hopekirk).

A Master Class with Evelyn Lear-This unique package presents a recorded master class with Metropolitan Opera star Evelyn Lear coaching young sopranos in 9 favorite arias. The book includes interpretive essays translations for study and the standardVocal/Piano versions of the arias with extensive coaching comments in the score. Besides the masterclass with Miss Lear the CD includes a Piano accompaniment for practice. Arias are from La bohème Don Giovanni Fidelio Lenozze di Figaro Roméo et Juliette Samson and Die Zauberflöte.

Soprano and Piano. Cycle of 6 songs. Simple Daylight was commissioned by Lincoln Center and dedicated to its first singer Dawn Upshaw. The music is set to poems in Michael Fried's To the Center of the Earth creating a song cyclethat requires a motet-like partnership between singer and pianist. Recorded on Elektra Nonesuch.

Many students only need a few opera arias in their vocal study. Selected Opera Arias extracts 10 arias useful to the typical voice student from the G. Schirmer Opera Anthology with plot notes translations andIPA and combines them with the diction lessons recorded by top coaches in New York and accompaniments recorded by coaches on staff at Lyric Opera of Chicago. The voice student gets a value priced complete package for the verybest instruction.