Hi Lisa,
once I heard xxx (what's her name?the famous and now retired Rumanian
soprano who sang all over the world) doing a wonderful Britten song cycle "
On this Island". At that time she was singing Pamina, Melisande, Norina etc.
So if this is your voice the cycle may work for you, and it is not too long!
As for the Germans, there is an amazingWolf song in the Italian song Book, I
think it is the last " Ich hab in Penna", a wonderful high note to fininsh.
Schwarzkopf used to end recitals with it.I is very effective and not as
difficult as it looks.An there is one of the Schubert "An die Nachtigal"....
Good luck,
Walter
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From: Elisabeth Kisselstein <zerbinetta713@h...>
From: Elisabeth Kisselstein <zerbinetta713@h...>
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Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 4:28 AM
Subject: [vocalist] Recital repetoire question
> Hi all! My name is Lisa Kisselstein and I'm a lyric coloratura soprano
from
> (snowy) upstate New York and I find myself needing to come out of my usual
> lurkdom to ask a repetoire question. I am prepping for my final master's
> degree recital and need to find a good English set and possibly a change
in
> my German set. My teacher would like me to come in with a few selections
> with which to negotiate. So far I have:
>
> Italian: Tornami a vagheggiar from Alcina (Handel)
> Io ti levo l'impero dell'armi from Partenope (Handel)
> French: Fantoches (Debussy)
> Green (Debussy)
> L'été (Chaminade)
> Russian: Op. 38 by Rachmaninov (contains In My Garden, To Her, The
> Daisies, The Pied Piper, Dreams, and Aa-Oo/The Quest)
>
> My potential German set: Heiß mich nicht reiden (Schubert)
> Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt (Schubert)
> So lasst mich scheinen (Wolf)
>
> Possible English: I was working on Argento's Songs About Spring but am
> rapidly becoming unsure about it. I have a ton of music here at home and
> have gone through The Art of the Song Recital for ideas but nothing (as
yet)
> has lept out at me. I was toying around with some of Ned Rorem's "Six
Songs
> for High Voice". Has anyone worked on these? I also came across the Ogden
> Nash/Vernon Duke songs in Art of the Song Recital - I thought I remembered
a
> mezzo singing them at school - would these sit too low? I'm trying to
avoid
> the seemingly ubiquitous "Glitter and Be Gay" or Baby Doe's Willow Song.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice. I'm glad I found my way back to the
list -
> thank you Nancy M.!
>
> Lisa Kisselstein
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