O Sole Mio (Richards)

Par DESHAYS PIERRE-RICHARD. 5 Pièces / Niveau : 1er Cycle / classique / Répertoire / Percussions et Piano

Arrangeur: Richards. Par TRADITIONNEL. / Niveau : Assez Facile / Répertoire / Saxophone Alto et Piano

Arrangeur: Richards. Par TRADITIONNEL. / Niveau : Assez Facile / Répertoire / Trombone Basse et Piano

Arrangeur: Richards. Par TRADITIONNEL. / Niveau : Assez Facile / Répertoire / Saxophone Ténor et Piano

Originaltonarten für hohe Stimme. Written in 1885, the eight songs after texts by the now little-known poet Hermann von Gilm have a special place in Richard Strauss? corpus of Lieder. For the first time, he composed an entire set of songs on texts by a single poet, collecting them into one opus that was also to appear in print. Some of the numbers in it, like ?Zueignung,? ?Die Nacht,? and ?Allerseelen,? are among the most popular Strauss songs of all time, but the entire cycle with its well-planned structure is also worthy of closer examination and performance. The aspiring composer quite consciously aligns himself with the tradition ranging from Schubert to Wolf, choosing the highly Romantic subject of unrequited love and illuminating its most diverse facets. The primary source for the Henle Urtext edition is the first edition from 1887, which Strauss furnished with a dedication to the Royal Bavarian chamber singer Heinrich Vogl - a serious invitation to today?s male singers not to leave these wonderful Strauss songs solely to female singers!

Feierlicher Zug zum Münster from Lohengrin-La procession d?Elsa à la Cathédrale est un extrait du deuxième acte de Lohengrin célèbre opéra romantique de Richard Wagner. La musique est solennelle alors que le cortège nuptial mène Elsa et son héroïque sauveur à l?autel. Franco Cesarini nous livre un majestueux arrangement de ce fragment grandiose en l?honneur du 200e anniversaire de la naissance du compositeur. Le monde entier célèbre Wagner en 2013 !

In 1857 and 1858 as Richard Wagner had come to the completion of Die Walkure the second installment in his epic opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen he took time out to write a series of lieder for (and based on poems by)Mathilde Wesendonck with whom Wagner was believed to have been at the very least extremely infatuated. Whatever the truth might have been behind their relationship it is known that Wagner had met Mathilde's husband Otto inZurich and his ensuing friendship with the couple led to this beautiful set of lieder.Wagner himself called two of the set's songs (Im Treibhaus and Traume) ?studies? for his magnificent opera Tristan andIsolde and though originally intended for female voice with piano all of these songs were eventually orchestrated either by Wagner (in the case of Traume) or by other composers. When they were first performed in 1862 they weretitled Five Songs for a Female Voice. In the 20th century they also became very popular songs for some of the greatest tenors.Much earlier in 1839 Wagner had composed a three-song cycle called Trois Melodies. The firstpiece entitled Dors mon enfant was a lullaby that Wagner ascribed to an unnamed young poet of his publisher's acquaintance and of which he wrote that his wife had called ?heavenly for sending one to sleep?. He thenset Ronsard's song Mignonne and Victor Hugo's L'attente (from that author's Orientales) to round out the set. Wagner offered L'attente to the reigning diva of the time Pauline Viardot who is said to have flatly refused it.Wagner wrote in his memoirs My Life ?I have no reason to be ashamed of these small pieces.?Listen to brilliant tenor Jon Robert Cart perform these lieder. Then he steps aside and you take center stage with yourvirtuoso accompanist Narciso Solero at the piano.