Thursday, December 17, 2009

Jules Massenet Nuit d'Espagne

Jules Massenet (1842-1912) Nuit d'Espagne




Video Program Notes:

"Massenet was one of the best-respected French composers of his day. He [was] also one of the most prolific and celebrated composers in the world. His gift for melody is reflected in a variety of arias that are among the most beautiful in the French operatic repertoire. Nuit d'Espagne is written by Louis Gallet. The colors and nuances of the voice of Philippe Jaroussky are remarkable especially in this piece."

Monday, December 14, 2009

GUITAR REPERTOIRE


Non-AMEB Foundation Studies
  • 'Mel Bay's Modern Guitar Method Grade 2'
  • Julio Sagreras' 'Las Primeras Lecciones De Guitarra'
  • John W. Duarte's 'Foundation Studies In Classic Guitar Technique'

PIANO REPERTOIRE

2010 PIANO REPERTOIRE

  • 'Two Part Invention #1' [Klavierwerke] - J.S.Bach [AMEBG4, List A]
  • 'Sonatina in G, Op.36, No.2' - Clementi [AMEBG4, List B]
  • 'Haiku' from Microjazz 3 - Christopher Norton [AMEBG4, List C]

    AMEB Extra List

  • 'Kleine Romanze' - Robert Schumann (1810-1856) [AMEBG4, List B]
  • 'Sonatina in G, Op.20, No.1' - Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760-1812) [AMEBG4, List B]
  • 'Study in A minor' - Dimitry Kabalevsky (1904-1987) [AMEBG4, List A]
  • 'Study in C' - Karl Czerny (1791-1857) [AMEBG4, List A]
  • 'Study in G minor, Op.37, No.31' - Henri Lemoine (1776-1854) [AMEBG4, List A]
  • 'Bagatelle in G minor, Op.119, No.1' - Ludwig Van Beethoven (1712–1773) [AMEBG4, List B]
  • 'Semplice' from Red Blues - Carl Vine [AMEBG4, List C]

Non-AMEB Piano

  • 'Scheherazade' - Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
  • BASS REPERTOIRE

    2010 BASS TECHNICAL WORK

    • AMEB Grade 5
    • Major Scales in all keys; two octaves except C, C#, D and E flat
    • Melodic Minor Scales in all keys; two octaves except C, C#, D and E flat
    • Bowing: Spiccato four rep. notes, MM Crotchet = 66; Hook stroke, MM Crotchet = 72; Four notes slurred to bow, MM Crotchet = 72
    • Arpeggios - compass & keys as scale requirement; separate bows, MM Crotchet = 100
    • Chromatic Scales - 2 Octaves, ascending & descending; commencing on F#, B flat & B; 3 notes slurred to bow, MM Crotchet = 50
    • Exercise: Double Stops, Ex. 1, Bk 2, P. 39 from 'A New Technique for the Double Bass' by Francois Rabbath

    2010 BASS REPERTOIRE

    • Etude N0. 8, 9, 10 & 11 from '24 Exercises for the Double Bass' by G. Bottesini [AMEBG5, List A]
    • 'Stars, No Moon' from 'Amazing Solos: Double Bass & Keyboard' [AMEBG5, List B]

    • Etude No. 1 & 4 from 'Eighty-Six Etudes for String Bass' by J. Hrabe [AMEBG5, List A]

      AMEB Extra List


    Non-AMEB Bass

  • Yorke Studies for Double Bass, Volume 1, Half & First Positions
  • The Evolving Bassist, Rufus Reed
  • VOCAL REPERTOIRE

    2010 VOCAL REPERTOIRE

    • 'Batti, batti, O bel Masetto' - Zerlina's aria - No. 13 from Don Giovanni, Act 1, K527 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [AMEBG8, List B]
    • 'Ständchen' ("Mach' auf, mach' auf, doch leise, mein Kind") - song for voice & piano, Op. 17/2 (TrV 149/2) - Richard Strauss [AMEBG8, List ?]
    • 'Les filles de Cadix' - bolero [composed 1885-1886] - Léo Delibes [AMEBG8, List ?]
    • 'Flow not so fast, ye fountaines' [3rd Book of Ayres, 1603] - John Dowland [AMEBG8, List A]

      AMEB Extra List

      Non-AMEB VOCAL

    • 'Piangero la sorte mia' - Cleopatra's aria from Giulio Cesare - George Frideric Handel

    Table Summary

    Practice Record - Table Summary

    DatesDay 1Day 2Day 3Day 4Day 5Day 6Day 7Total
    12/21/2009 -
    12/27/2009
    Mon
    December 21
    0H 0M
    Tue
    December 22
    1H 0M
    Wed
    December 23
    1H 30M
    Thu
    December 24
    0H 0M
    Fri
    December 25
    0H 0M
    Sat
    December 26
    0H 0M
    Sun
    December 27
    0H 0M
    2H 30M
    12/14/2009 -
    12/20/2009
    Mon
    December 14
    0H 0M
    Tue
    December 15
    0H 0M
    Wed
    December 16
    0H 0M
    Thu
    December 17
    1H 0M
    Fri
    December 18
    0H 0M
    Sat
    December 19
    1H 30M
    Sun
    December 20
    0H 0M
    2H 30M

    Weekly Practice Records

    Research Links

    Thursday, August 6, 2009

    Henry Purcell 'Hark! How All Things with One Sound Rejoice'




    Henry Purcell - "Hark! Hark! How all things".


    Emma Kirkby (Soprano).
    Cristopher Hogwood (organ).
    Anthony Rooley (lute).
    Richard Campbell (Viola da Gamba).
    Catherine Mackintosh (Violin).

    Henry Purcell 'The Plaint'




    "O let me weep" is a slow, beutiful and sorrowful aria sung by Titania at the end of "The Fairy Queen" by Purcell.


    All the explanations about it are given by the performer, Yvonne Kenny, before the video of this aria.





    Version used in the movie Hable Con Ella by Pedro Almodóvar

    From "The Fairy Queen"
    Composed by Henry Purcell

    Arranged by Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst
    Published by Faber Music Ltd, London
    Performed by Jennifer Vyvyan and the English Chamber Orchestra
    Courtesy of Universal Music Spain, S.L.





    Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695).


    The Fairy-Queen (Z.629):


    I. O, let me weep.


    O, let me weep, for ever weep,
    my eyes no more shall welcome sleep;
    i'll hide me from the sight of day
    and sigh, and sigh my soul away.
    he's gone, he's gone; his loss deplore
    and i shall never see him more.


    Thanks to TeDarEMiAlmaPerdida.


    Emma Kirkby (Soprano).


    Cristopher Hogwood (organ).
    Anthony Rooley (lute).
    Richard Campbell (Viola da Gamba).
    Catherine Mackintosh (Violin).


    The Fairy-Queen is a masque or semi-opera by Henry Purcell; a Restoration spectacular It was first performed on 2 May 1692 at the Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden in London by the United Company. The libretto is an anonymous adaptation of William Shakespeare's wedding comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream. Presumably the author or at least co-author of the libretto is Thomas Betterton, the manager of Dorset Garden Theatre with whom Purcell worked regularly.


    This assumption is based on an analysis of Betterton's stage directions. A collaboration between several playwrights is also feasible. Choreography for the various dances was provided by Josias Priest, who also worked on Dioclesian and King Arthur, and who was associated with Dido and Aeneas. Purcell did not set any of Shakespeare's text to music; instead he composed music for short masques in every act but the first. The play itself was also slightly modernized in keeping with seventeenth-century dramatic conventions, but in the main the spoken text is as Shakespeare wrote it. The masques are related to the play metaphorically, rather than literally. Many critics have stated erroneously that they bear no relationship to the play, but recent scholarship has shown that the opera, which ends with a masque featuring Hymen, the God of Marriage, was actually composed for the fifteenth wedding anniversary of William and Mary.


    A letter describing the original performance shows that the parts of Titania and Oberon were played by children of eight or nine. Presumably other fairies were also played by children, which changes our perspective of the staging.





    "O let me weep" (The Fairy Queen, Z. 629)


    Sylvia McNair with Vienna Concentus Musicus,
    Conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1994)


    Composer: Henry Purcell


    Librettist (Playwright): Thomas Betterton(?)


    Libretto:


    http://opera.stanford.edu/Purcell/Fai...


    Source: William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream
    First performance: Dorset Garden, London, 1692


    Voicing: Soprano solo, D minor ( she sings it a semitone lower, a common practice for Baroque music)


    Genre: Secular, Aria
    Language: English
    Instruments: Violin (or oboe, or possibly recorder)and continuo


    Published: 1689


    The main source for this song is Orpheus Britannicus. The collection of songs by Henry Purcell entitled Orpheus Britannicus is in two volumes, published in 1698 and 1702 respectively. These include solo songs, duets and dialogues, and some songs for 3 voices. For more info:


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus_...


    The Fairy-Queen (Z.629) is a masque or semi-opera by Henry Purcell. It was first performed on May 2, 1692 at the Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden in London by the United Company. The libretto is an anonymous adaptation of William Shakespeare's wedding comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Presumably the author or at least co-author of the libretto is Thomas Betterton, the manager of Dorset Garden Theatre with whom Purcell worked regularly. This assumption is based on an analysis of Betterton's stage directions. A collaboration between several playwrights is also feasible. Choreography for the various dances was provided by Josias Priest, who also worked on Dioclesian and King Arthur, and who was associated with Dido and Aeneas. Purcell did not set any of Shakespeare's text to music; instead he composed music for short masques in every act but the first. The play itself was also slightly modernized in keeping with seventeenth-century dramatic conventions, but in the main the spoken text is as Shakespeare wrote it. The masques are related to the play metaphorically, rather than literally. Many critics have stated erroneously that they bear no relationship to the play, but recent scholarship has shown that the opera, which ends with a masque featuring Hymen, the God of Marriage, was actually composed for the fifteenth wedding anniversary of William and Mary. A letter describing the original performance shows that the parts of Titania and Oberon were played by children of eight or nine.Presumably other fairies were also played by children, which changes our perspective of the staging.


    The Plaint O, let me Weep! is part of the masque in Act V of Purcell's The Fairy Queen, where Juno appears and sings first the Epithalamium Thrice happy lovers, and then The Plaint. Peter Holman suggests that the quality and the range of the obbligato instrument indicate a recorder, rather than the violin: if this were so it would be the only instance in Purcell's works of his writing for a single recorder. Clifford Bartlett in his edition of the Fairy Queen suggests violin or oboe as the appropriate instrument.


    Some of the others who recorded this aria:
    Alfred Deller
    Emma Kirkby
    Jennifer Vyvyan
    Catherine Bott
    Kym Amps
    Nancy Argenta



    O let me weep, for ever weep,
    My Eyes no more shall welcome Sleep;


    I'll hide me from the sight of Day,
    And sigh, and sigh my Soul away.


    He's gone, he's gone, his loss deplore;
    And I shall never see him more.





    Purcell's The Fairy Queen

    1. Song: The Plaint- O let me weep

    Lorraine Hunt, Soprano

    Roger Norrington; London Classical Players

    Wednesday, August 5, 2009

    Research Links: The Vocal Trill



    Maria Callas discusses ornamentation in vocal music.

    'Morgen' by Richard Strauss




    Placido Domingo sings "Morgan" Op.27 No.4 by Richard Strauss with Itzhak Perlman, violin





    One of Richard Strauss' best known songs, this work, a celebration of love, is inspired by the composer's feelings toward his wife, Pauline. The text is "Morgen," a poem by the German poet (of Scottish extraction), John Henry Morgan (1864-1933). The poem, which blends tranquil, reassuring images of nature with deep confidence in love, inspired a natural, flowing melody of extraordinary beauty. While the atmosphere of tranquillity remains fundamentally undisturbed, the smoothly ascending movement of the melody suggests feelings of deep, boundless joy, yearning to express its immensity. Providing discreet harmonic accompaniment and gentle melodic support, the piano part beautifully complements the solo. While Strauss is better known for his symphonic and operatic works, this work, composed in 1893-1894, identifies him as one of the great masters of the German Lied.

    John McCormack was one of the greatest singers of the 20th century. A tenor of the bel canto school, he enjoyed an immensely successful career in opera, on the recital stage, and with the sale of his recordings. Born in Ireland in 1884 to working class parents, he early evinced a strong interest in a career as a singer, and in 1903 with very little formal training he won the gold medal as a tenor at the Irish National Music Festival, the Feis Ceoil. He studied briefly in Italy under Sabatini and returned to London in the autumn of 1906 seeking opportunities to sing professionally. It took him less than a year, for in the autumn of 1907 he made his debut at Covent Garden, at age 23 the youngest principal tenor ever to sing there. In less than three years he was singing opera in the United States too, as well as beginning a career on the recital stage that would make him one of the most successful singers of all time, both in the hearts of a virtually global public, and in the size of the financial reward he reaped from his concerts and recordings. In 1919 he became a citizen of the United States, his adopted country, and the one where his concert appeal had proven to be nearly universal and unrelenting. McCormack's active career lasted over forty years. He made his first recordings in 1904 and his last in 1942. He first sang professionally as early as 1902 and retired (in England) in 1938. One year after that farewell concert he was back singing for the Red Cross and in support of the war effort. He concertized, toured, broadcast, and recorded in this capacity until 1943, when failing health forced him to retire again. McCormack died in September 1945.


    Dame Janet Baker sings Richard Strauss' beautiful lied 'Morgen'.





    Richard Strauss
    Morgen

    Renée Fleming

    Zhongshan Music Hall
    Beijing
    April 7th 2007
    China Philharmonic Orchestra
    Conductor.
    Yu Long



    Richard Strauss - Orchesterlieder
    Morgen op. 27/4 ( John Henry Mackay)
    Jessye Norman - soprano
    Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, l982
    conducted by Kurt Masur


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu1eCzHg_8Y


    Karita Mattila sings Strauss' Morgen Op. 27 No. 4 at the Helsinki festival in September 1986. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Finnish RSO.





    Strauss "Morgen"
    Yana Boukoff
    Yury Boukoff- Piano




    The great German soprano Lotte Lehmann sings Richard Strauss' "Morgen!"... The Strauss' words in the clip, about Lehmann, mean "She has sung that even the stars cried" (thank you, GaetanoMejorano, for translation)... and you can find it at her grave at Wiener Zentralfriedhof.

    MORGEN! (Op. 27, No. 4)
    Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
    Lyrics by John Henry Mckay (1864-1933)

    "Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen,
    Und auf dem Wege, den ich gehen werde,
    Wird uns, die Glücklichen, sie wieder einen
    Inmitten dieser sonnenatmenden Erde...

    Und zu dem Strand, dem weiten, wogenblauen,
    Werden wir still und langsam niedersteigen,
    Stumm werden wir uns in die Augen schauen,
    Und auf uns sinkt des Glückes stummes Schweigen..."

    Wednesday, June 24, 2009

    Ständchen - non-literal translation

    ∞∞∞
    Mach auf, mach auf, doch leise mein Kind,
    Um keinen vom Schlummer zu wecken.
    Kaum murmelt der Bach, kaum zittert im Wind
    Ein Blatt an den Büschen und Hecken.
    Drum leise, mein Mädchen, daß nichts sich regt,
    Nur leise die Hand auf die Klinke gelegt.

    Mit Tritten, wie Tritte der Elfen so sacht,
    Die über die Blumen hüpfen,
    Flieg leicht hinaus in die Mondscheinnacht,
    Zu mir in den Garten zu schlüpfen.
    Rings schlummern die Blüten am rieselnden Bach
    Und duften im Schlaf, nur die Liebe ist wach.

    Sitz nieder, hier dämmert's geheimnisvoll
    Unter den Lindenbäumen,
    Die Nachtigall uns zu Häupten soll
    Von unseren Küssen träumen,
    Und die Rose, wenn sie am Morgen erwacht,
    Hoch glühn von den Wonnenschauern der Nacht.
    ∞∞∞
    Open up, open up! but softly, my dear,
    So as to wake no one from sleep!
    The brook scarcely murmurs, scarcely a leaf
    On the bushes and hedges trembles in the breeze.
    Then softly, my dearest, lay your hand gently
    On the latch so that nothing stirs!

    Treading as soft as elves
    Hopping over the flowers,
    Fly lightly into the moonlit night,
    Steal out to me in the garden!
    The flowers slumber by the purling stream,
    Frangant in sleep, Love alone is awake.

    Sit down! Here it is dark
    And mysterious under the lime-trees;
    The nightingale above our heads
    Shall dream of our kisses,
    And the rose, when it wakes in the morn,
    Will glow bright from tonight's trembling ecstacy.
    ∞∞∞

    Ständchen - Richard Strauss


    Una Noche de Musica y Danca
    Die junge deutsche Sopranistin Marén Elisabeth Kroll stellt sich vor-
    Lieder- und Arienabend der Deutschen Botschaft in Panama im Nationaltheater Panama.

    Diana Damrau
    Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, 2007
    Piano: Stephan Matthias Lademann

    Leontyne Price
    R.Strauss: Standchen. Salzburg Grosses Festspielhaus 15 August 1984. David Garvey piano.


    Kathleen Battle, soprano (1991)
    Warren Jones, piano
    'Standchen'by Richard Strauss (1864-1949)


    Kiri Te Kanawa , Georg Solti


    Bryan Hymel sings Ständchen and Zueignung of Richard Strauss.

    Birgit Nilsson, Ständchen(Serenade)op.17,n°2,J anos Solyom(piano)1975

    Soprano: Sarah Mayo, a graduate student at George Mason University under Prof. Debby Wenner.
    Piano: Dr. Patricia Parker.
    Recorded 27 April 2008.
    Audio and video recording and post production: Richard Demy and George Austin, One Note Shy Classical recording(info@onenoteshy.com), with special thanks to Mr. Mayo.

    Nicolai Gedda

    A YOUNG GEORGES THILL(AGED 33) SINGS RICHARD STRAUSS SERENADE...

    Herbert Lippert, Tenor
    Erich Binder, Piano

    Lotte Lehmann, Radio recital, 1941

    Ständchen ("Mach' auf, mach' auf, doch leise, mein Kind"), Op. 27, No 2
    Lyrics: Adolf Friedrich von Schack
    Music: Richard Strauss
    Baritone: Hermann Prey
    Piano: Karl Engel
    Recorded in Decca Studio No 3, West Hampstead, London, October 1962

    Ständchen, by Richard Strauss, performed by Elizabeth Maurey, soprano, and Ron Maurey, piano. Recorded live, in a performance at Indiana State University, October 14, 2008.

    Wednesday, April 15, 2009

    'Der Nussbaum'




    Austrian mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager (b. 1966) in the third song "Der Nußbaum", from the song cycle MYRTEN, op. 25 [1840] composed by Robert Schumann. Text by Julius Mosen. Paris, Châtelet, 2001

    'Batti Batti, o bel Masetto'




    Date: 7 July 1988
    Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
    Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Librettist: Lorenzo da Ponte

    Conductor: Colin Davis

    Leporello: Stafford Dean
    Donna Anna: Makvala Kasrashvili
    Don Giovanni: Thomas Allen
    Il commendatore: Gwynne Howell
    Don Ottavio: Stuart Burrows
    Donna Elvira: Kiri Te Kanawa
    Zerlina: Joan Rodgers
    Masetto: Gordon Sandison




    Zerlina - Don Giovanni
    Rosa Elvira Sierra - Zerlina
    Christoph Campestrini - Cond.
    20/05/2007





    Performed in Leipzig by Ruth Engel Brown





    First aria of Zerlina from Don Giovanni, by Mozart. Anna Netrebko, soprano.





    http://www.Mootnotes.com - Art, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Shakespeare

    Teatro alla Scala, 1987
    Conductor: Riccardo Muti
    Masetto: Natale de Carolis
    Zerlina: Susanne Mentzer





    "Batti, batti o bel Masetto" from the Mozart's opera Don Giovanni conducted by Michael Halasz with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Rome, filmed live in Teatro Argentina in Rome (Italy) by Enrico Castiglione.





    Kathleen Battle (ZERLINA) singing Aria "Batti, batti, o bel Masetto" with Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Herbert Von Karajan;

    ZERLINA;
    Batti, batti, o bel Masetto,
    La tua povera Zerlina;
    Starò qui come agnellina
    Le tue botte ad aspettar.
    Lascierò straziarmi il crine,
    Lascierò cavarmi gli occhi,
    E le care tue manine
    Lieta poi saprò baciar.
    Ah, lo vedo, non hai core!
    Pace, pace, o vita mia,
    In contento ed allegria
    Notte e dì vogliam passar,
    Si, notte e dì vogliam passar.





    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKkOKD...
    Mozart: Don Giovanni
    Met - April 1990 - James Levine (c) - Franco Zefirelli (dir)
    Character Artist
    Giovanni Samuel Ramey
    Anna Carol Vaness
    Elvira Karita Mattila
    Ottavio Jerry Hadley
    Leporello Ferruccio Furlanetto
    Zerlina Dawn Upshaw
    Masetto Philip Cokorinos
    Commendatore Kurt Moll

    DON GIOVANNI
    Finch'han dal vino
    Calda la testa
    Una gran festa
    Fa preparar.
    Se trovi in piazza
    Qualche ragazza,
    Teco ancor quella
    Cerca menar.
    Senza alcun ordine
    La danza sia;
    Chi il minuetto,
    Chi la follia,
    Chi l'alemanna
    Farai ballar.
    Ed io frattanto
    Dall'altro canto
    Con questa e quella
    Vo' amoreggiar.
    Ah! la mia lista
    Doman mattina
    D'una decina
    Devi aumentar!


    ZERLINA
    Batti, batti, o bel Masetto,
    La tua povera Zerlina;
    Starò qui come agnellina
    Le tue botte ad aspettar.
    Lascerò straziarmi il crine,
    Lascerò cavarmi gli occhi,
    E le care tue manine
    Lieta poi saprò baciar.
    Ah, lo vedo, non hai core!
    Pace, pace, o vita mia,
    In contento ed allegria
    Notte e dì vogliam passar,
    Sì, notte e dì vogliam passar.





    Don Giovanni
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Batti, batti o bel Masetto

    Zerlina......Miah Persson
    Masetto......Robert Gleadow
    Conductor....Charles Mackerras

    ROH 2008





    Don Giovanni W.A Mozart Salzburgo 2008
    Christopher Maltman (Don Giovanni)
    Anatoly Kocherga (Il commandatore)
    Annette Dasch (Donna Anna)
    Matthew Polenzani (Don Ottavio)
    Dorothea Röschmann (Donna Elvira)
    Erwin Schrott (Leporello)
    Ekaterina Siurina (Zerlina)
    Alex Esposito (Masetto)
    Conductor: Bertrand de Billy
    Director: Claus Guth
    Sets & Costumes: Christian Schmidt
    Lights: Olaf Winter
    Choreography: Ramses Sigl

    Salzburg Festival August 2008





    From "A Portrait" CD!





    Anna Moffo
    Also see Vedrai Carino
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6LP_t...


    Batti, batti, o bel Masetto,
    la tua povera Zerlina;
    starò qui com'agnellina
    le tue botte ad aspettar.
    Batti, batti, ecc.
    Lascierò straziarmi il crine,
    lascierò cavarmi gli occhi,
    e le care tue manine
    lieta poi saprò baciar.
    Batti, batti, ecc.
    Ah, lo vedo, non hai core!
    Pace, pace, o vita mia,
    in contenti ed allegria
    notte e dì vogliam passar,

    Beat me, beat me, my Masetto,
    beat your poor Zerlina.
    I'll stay here like a lamb
    and await your every blow.
    Beat me, beat me, etc.
    I'll let you pull my hair out,
    I'll let you gouge my eyes out,
    and then happily I will kiss
    your wonderfully sweet hands.
    Beat me, beat me, etc.
    Ah, I see you have no heart!
    Let's make up, my own true love.
    In happiness and joy
    we must pass the days and nights,

    Frappe, frappe, ô bel Masetto,
    ta pauvre Zerlina ;
    je serai là comme une agnelle
    à attendre tes coups.
    Frappe, frappe, etc.
    Je te laisserai m'arracher les cheveux,
    je te laisserai m'enlever les yeux,
    et tes petites mains adorées,
    heureuse, ensuite je saurai embrasser.
    Frappe, frappe, etc.
    Ah, je le vois, tu n'en as pas le coeur !
    La paix, la paix, ô ma vie,
    dans le bonheur et la joie
    nuits et jours nous voulons passer,

    Schlag mich, schlag mich, mein Masetto,
    schlag deine arme Zerlina;
    ich werde stehen wie ein Lamm
    und deine Schläge erwarten.
    Schlag mich, schlag mich, usw.
    Du kannst mir das Haar ausreißen,
    mir die Augen auskratzen,
    und ich werde beglückt
    deine lieben Hände küssen.
    Schlag mich, schlag mich, usw.
    Ach, ich sehe, du hast kein Herz!
    Frieden, Frieden, o mein Leben,
    glücklich und voller Freude
    wollen wir Tage und Nächte verbringen,





    Huguette Tourangeau as Zerlina! Richard Bonynge Conductor. Met, New York. http://operafree.forumfree.net





    Batti Batti in English from Mozart's Don Giovanni. Karen Burlingame and Barry Johnson, 2001 performance. Benton Hess, conductor. David Bartholomew, director. For those concerned that it's in English, it's not a concert performance. It's an excerpt from a performance of the entire opera, from a company that performed in the local vernacular.






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    From DG performance sung in Arabic at 8th Al Ain Festival, Abu Dhabi, UAE on 6 March 2008. Arabic Libretto Aly Sadek, Director Ryszard Peryt, Musical Direction Zbigniew Graca conducting Warsaw Phil...
    From DG performance sung in Arabic at 8th Al Ain Festival, Abu Dhabi, UAE on 6 March 2008. Arabic Libretto Aly Sadek, Director Ryszard Peryt, Musical Direction Zbigniew Graca conducting Warsaw Philharmonic (Chamber) Orchestra. Soloists: Toufic Maatouk(Don Giovanni), Raouf Zaidan(Leporello), Cynthia Samaha(Anna), Ziad Nehme(Ottavio), Caroline Solage(Elvira), Nadine Nassar(zerlina), Hatem el Geneddy(Commendatore/Masetto). Commissioned by ADCC and ADACH, president Sheikh sultan Bin Tahnoon, Chairman Zaki Nusseibeh.





    Don Giovanni
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Batti, batti, o bel Masetto

    Zerlina....Angelika Kirchschlager
    Masetto....Lorenzo Regazzo
    Conductor..Ricardo Muti

    Viena 20-06-1999

    Wednesday, February 4, 2009

    'Les Filles De Cadix'




    Dame Joan Sutherland, with her husband Richard Bonynge on piano.





    Frederica von Stade.



    Natalie Dessay and the Berliner Sinfonie Orchester, conducted by Michael Schonwandt.



    Danielle De Niese.



    Anna Netrebko.



    Patricia Petibon.



    Kate Royal

    Friday, January 2, 2009