When Julie and I visited krj and arabella in A2 last summer, arabella suggested I look for singing repetoire in Spanish. I recently found "SPANISH THEATER SONGS:Baroque and Classical Eras" at Stanton's online site at www.stantons.com. It's a refreshing change from the usual Italian arias that make up a majority of opera music, and French and German, too, that compose most of the rest-- all overdone. My voice teacher was reluctant at first to teach me as such, but after assuring him I would do fine since Spanish is a language I already speak, and then getting this book, he got excited. (The book contains extensive notes on singing in Castillan, so he liked that.) He will purchase a book so he has an alternative resource for his students. This is a good thing, since a tenor friend of mine is of Mexican heritage. Anyway, I'll report later on how this all goes.7 responses total.
Interesting!
My choir director told me that it really should be no trouble finding other works in Spanish. He advised me to ask my teacher if he had a collection of Spanish art songs by a composer by the name of Obradors. I'll have to check into this, as well.
Fernando J. Obradors, _Canciones clasicas espanoles_, 4 v., 1921-1941. That must be it.
Excellent-- I'll order it ASAP as soon as I call Ted Brown in Tacoma.
Jon: though I've never seen/heard it performed by a male singer, you might track down a copy/recording of "Quatro Madrigales Amatorios" by Joaquin Rodrigo. It's pertinant to the repetoir and fun stuff, to boot. (:
Would that be a countertenor piece? (David Daniels, for example)
Like I said, I've never heard a guy sing it, but I imagine it could be done for that kind of voice... but it's kinda be like transposing The Wanderer for a coloratura. d=
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