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The Music the Music-To-Go Trio Wedding Guide Go Trio Wedding
The MusicMusic----ToToToTo----GoGo Trio Wedding Guide Processionals Trumpet Voluntary.................................................................................Clarke Wedding March.....................................................................................Wagner Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring...................................................................... Bach Te Deum Prelude.......................................................................... Charpentier Canon ................................................................................................. Pachelbel Air from Water Music............................................................................. Handel Sleepers Awake.......................................................................................... Bach Sheep May Safely Graze........................................................................... Bach Air on the G String................................................................................... Bach Winter (Largo) from The Four Seasons ..................................................Vivaldi MidMid----CeremonyCeremony Music Meditations, Candle Lightings, Presentations etc. Ave Maria.............................................................................................Schubert Ave Maria...................................................................................Bach-Gounod Arioso......................................................................................................... Bach Meditation from Thaïs ......................................................................Massenet -
Incoronazione Di Poppea *
B USENELLO’ S S ECRET H ISTORY: An allegorical reading of L’incoronazione di Poppea * By Magnus Tessing Schneider The 1623 publication of Procopius’ Secret History shocked the scholarly world. The ancient historian’s rejection of his official account of the reign of Justinian I forced humanists to reflect on the general reliability of historical sources. The article suggests that Giovan Francesco Busenello’s libretto L’incoronazione di Poppea (1643) reflects the challenge posed by Procopius’ book. Though its portrayal of historical figures adheres to Tacitus’ Annals, it plays with the possibility that even Tacitus himself was deceived by Machiavellian rulers. Did he, for example, condemn Nero and Poppaea while praising Octavia because this was the truth, or because Octavia was, in fact, a superior politician who had managed to craft a favourable epitaph for herself? Nerone innamorato di Poppea, ch’era moglie di Ottone, lo mandò sotto pretesto d’ambasciaria in Lusitania per godersi la cara diletta, così rappresenta Cornelio Tacito. Ma quì si rappresenta il fatto diverso. Ottone, disperato nel vedersi privo di Poppea, dà nei deliri e nelle esclamazioni. Ottavia, moglie di Nerone, ordina ad Ottone che sveni Poppea. Ottone promette farlo; ma non bastandogli l’animo di levar la vita all’adorata Poppea, si traveste con l’abito di Drusilla ch’era innamorata di lui. Così travestito entra nel giardino di Poppea. Amore disturba e impedisce quella morte. Nerone ripudia Ottavia, nonostante i consigli di Seneca, e prende per moglie Poppea. Seneca more, e Ottavia vien discacciata da Roma.1 Nero, in love with Poppaea, Otho’s wife, sent the latter to Lusitania under the pretext of an ambassadorship in order to enjoy his dearly beloved. -
Handel's Oratorios and the Culture of Sentiment By
Virtue Rewarded: Handel’s Oratorios and the Culture of Sentiment by Jonathan Rhodes Lee A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Music in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Davitt Moroney, Chair Professor Mary Ann Smart Professor Emeritus John H. Roberts Professor George Haggerty, UC Riverside Professor Kevis Goodman Fall 2013 Virtue Rewarded: Handel’s Oratorios and the Culture of Sentiment Copyright 2013 by Jonathan Rhodes Lee ABSTRACT Virtue Rewarded: Handel’s Oratorios and the Culture of Sentiment by Jonathan Rhodes Lee Doctor of Philosophy in Music University of California, Berkeley Professor Davitt Moroney, Chair Throughout the 1740s and early 1750s, Handel produced a dozen dramatic oratorios. These works and the people involved in their creation were part of a widespread culture of sentiment. This term encompasses the philosophers who praised an innate “moral sense,” the novelists who aimed to train morality by reducing audiences to tears, and the playwrights who sought (as Colley Cibber put it) to promote “the Interest and Honour of Virtue.” The oratorio, with its English libretti, moralizing lessons, and music that exerted profound effects on the sensibility of the British public, was the ideal vehicle for writers of sentimental persuasions. My dissertation explores how the pervasive sentimentalism in England, reaching first maturity right when Handel committed himself to the oratorio, influenced his last masterpieces as much as it did other artistic products of the mid- eighteenth century. When searching for relationships between music and sentimentalism, historians have logically started with literary influences, from direct transferences, such as operatic settings of Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, to indirect ones, such as the model that the Pamela character served for the Ninas, Cecchinas, and other garden girls of late eighteenth-century opera. -
CHORAL PROBLEMS in HANDEL's MESSIAH THESIS Presented to The
*141 CHORAL PROBLEMS IN HANDEL'S MESSIAH THESIS Presented to the Graduate Council of the North Texas State University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of MASTER OF MUSIC By John J. Williams, B. M. Ed. Denton, Texas May, 1968 PREFACE Music of the Baroque era can be best perceived through a detailed study of the elements with which it is constructed. Through the analysis of melodic characteristics, rhythmic characteristics, harmonic characteristics, textural charac- teristics, and formal characteristics, many choral problems related directly to performance practices in the Baroque era may be solved. It certainly cannot be denied that there is a wealth of information written about Handel's Messiah and that readers glancing at this subject might ask, "What is there new to say about Messiah?" or possibly, "I've conducted Messiah so many times that there is absolutely nothing I don't know about it." Familiarity with the work is not sufficient to produce a performance, for when it is executed in this fashion, it becomes merely a convention rather than a carefully pre- pared piece of music. Although the oratorio has retained its popularity for over a hundred years, it is rarely heard as Handel himself performed it. Several editions of the score exist, with changes made by the composer to suit individual soloists or performance conditions. iii The edition chosen for analysis in this study is the one which Handel directed at the Foundling Hospital in London on May 15, 1754. It is version number four of the vocal score published in 1959 by Novello and Company, Limited, London, as edited by Watkins Shaw, based on sets of parts belonging to the Thomas Coram Foundation (The Foundling Hospital). -
Handel Arias
ALICE COOTE THE ENGLISH CONCERT HARRY BICKET HANDEL ARIAS HERCULES·ARIODANTE·ALCINA RADAMISTO·GIULIO CESARE IN EGITTO GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL A portrait attributed to Balthasar Denner (1685–1749) 2 CONTENTS TRACK LISTING page 4 ENGLISH page 5 Sung texts and translation page 10 FRANÇAIS page 16 DEUTSCH Seite 20 3 GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685–1759) Radamisto HWV12a (1720) 1 Quando mai, spietata sorte Act 2 Scene 1 .................. [3'08] Alcina HWV34 (1735) 2 Mi lusinga il dolce affetto Act 2 Scene 3 .................... [7'45] 3 Verdi prati Act 2 Scene 12 ................................. [4'50] 4 Stà nell’Ircana Act 3 Scene 3 .............................. [6'00] Hercules HWV60 (1745) 5 There in myrtle shades reclined Act 1 Scene 2 ............. [3'55] 6 Cease, ruler of the day, to rise Act 2 Scene 6 ............... [5'35] 7 Where shall I fly? Act 3 Scene 3 ............................ [6'45] Giulio Cesare in Egitto HWV17 (1724) 8 Cara speme, questo core Act 1 Scene 8 .................... [5'55] Ariodante HWV33 (1735) 9 Con l’ali di costanza Act 1 Scene 8 ......................... [5'42] bl Scherza infida! Act 2 Scene 3 ............................. [11'41] bm Dopo notte Act 3 Scene 9 .................................. [7'15] ALICE COOTE mezzo-soprano THE ENGLISH CONCERT HARRY BICKET conductor 4 Radamisto Handel diplomatically dedicated to King George) is an ‘Since the introduction of Italian operas here our men are adaptation, probably by the Royal Academy’s cellist/house grown insensibly more and more effeminate, and whereas poet Nicola Francesco Haym, of Domenico Lalli’s L’amor they used to go from a good comedy warmed by the fire of tirannico, o Zenobia, based in turn on the play L’amour love and a good tragedy fired with the spirit of glory, they sit tyrannique by Georges de Scudéry. -
Theodora - It Would Be Useful for Your Students to Know Something of This Before the Workshop
T h eo d o ra Oratorio in three parts Libretto by Thomas Morell Premiere: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 16th March 1750 and generously funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation 1 T h eo d o ra Preparing for a workshop This pack contains information about the basic storyline and characters of Theodora - it would be useful for your students to know something of this before the workshop. The entire pack will not take long to read. 2 T h eo d o ra 3 T h eo d o ra President of Antioch (Roman) Determined to destroy anyone who will not worship the Roman gods. Bass Didymus Young Roman soldier Secretly a Christian, but afraid to admit this even to his closest friend. Counter-tenor Septimius Roman Officer, friend and former comrade-in-arms of Didymus Hates the oppression of the Christians, but is afraid to speak out or act against it. A good, spiritual man, he still worships the Roman gods. Tenor Theodora Young noblewoman of Antioch, (Christian) Has a devout faith in God and is unafraid of death. She prizes her untainted reputation as a virgin. Soprano Irene Leader of the Christians, friend and confidante of Theodora Helps the Christians find the strength to carry on in a time of great danger and persecution. Mezzo-soprano Chorus of Romans Chorus of Christians 4 T h eo d o ra Overview Handel’s oratorio Theodora is an exploration of the universal themes of love, devotion and sacrifice and asks the question “How far would you be willing to go for what you believe?” The brave and unyielding young noblewoman Theodora is arrested by the Roman guard in a violent crack down on Christianity. -
Handel's Messiah Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Handel’s Messiah Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Wednesday 11 December 2019 7pm, Hall Handel Messiah Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Zürcher Sing-Akademie Trevor Pinnock director Katherine Watson soprano Claudia Huckle contralto James Way tenor Ashley Riches bass-baritone Matthias von der Tann Matthias von There will be one interval of 20 minutes between Part 1 and Part 2 Part of Barbican Presents 2019–20 Please do ... Turn off watch alarms and phones during the performance. Please don’t ... Take photos or make recordings during the performance. Use a hearing aid? Please use our induction loop – just switch your hearing aid to T setting on entering the hall. The City of London Corporation Programme produced by Harriet Smith; is the founder and advertising by Cabbell (tel 020 3603 7930) principal funder of the Barbican Centre Welcome This evening we’re delighted to welcome It was a revolutionary work in several the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and respects: drawing exclusively on passages Zürcher Sing-Akademie together with four from the Bible, Handel made the most of outstanding vocal soloists under the his experience as an opera composer in direction of Trevor Pinnock. The concert creating a compelling drama, with the features a single masterpiece: Handel’s chorus taking an unusually central role. To Messiah. the mix, this most cosmopolitan of figures added the full gamut of national styles, It’s a work so central to the repertoire that from the French-style overture via the it’s easy to forget that it was written at a chorale tradition of his native Germany to time when Handel’s stock was not exactly the Italianate ‘Pastoral Symphony’. -
Jonathan Leif Thomas, Countertenor Dr
The University of North Carolina at Pembroke Department of Music Presents Graduate Lecture Recital Jonathan Leif Thomas, countertenor Dr. Seung-Ah Kim, piano Presentation of Research Findings Jonathan Thomas INTERMISSION Dove sei, amato bene? (from Rodelinda).. George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Ch'io mai vi possa (from Siroe) fl fervido desiderio .Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) Ma rendi pur contento Now sleeps the crimson petal.. .. Roger Quilter (1877-1953) Blow, blow, thou winter wind Pie Jesu (from Requiem) .. Andrew Lloyd Webber Dr. Jaeyoon Kim, tenor (b.1948) THESIS COMMITTEE Dr. Valerie Austin Thesis Advisor Dr. Jaeyoon Kim Studio Professor Dr. Jose Rivera Dr. Katie White This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree in Music Education. Jonathan Thomas is a graduate student of Dr. Valerie Austin and studies voice with Dr. Jaeyoon Kim. As a courtesy to the performers and audience, please adjust all mobile devices for no sound and no light. Please enter and exit during applause only. March 27,2014 7:30 PM Moore Hall Auditorium This publication is available in alternative formats upon request. Please contact Disability Support Services, OF Lowry Building, 521.6695. Effective Instructional Strategies for Middle School Choral Teachers: Teaching Middle School Boys to Sing During Vocal Transition UNCP Graduate Lecture Recital Jonathan L. Thomas / Abstract Teaching vocal skills to male students whose voices are transitioning is an undertaking that many middle school choral teachers find challenging. Research suggests that one reason why challenges exist is because of teachers' limited knowledge about the transitioning male voice. The development of self-identity, peer pressure, and the understanding of social norms, which will be associated with psychological transitions for this study, is another factor that creates instructional challenges for choral teachers. -
Il Complesso Barocco Edition
Handel: ADMETO (1726) Full score and piano-vocal Vivaldi: ERCOLE SUL TERMODONTE (1723) Full score and piano-vocal ISMN 979-0-2025-3382-6 Alan Curtis’ 1977 performance in Amsterdam‘s Concertgebouw, This important opera, performed in Rome a year earlier than DVD recorded by EMI with René Jacobs singing the title role, has now itself Il Giustino, was long thought to be lost. Nearly all the arias have Stains / Nesi / Cherici / become historical. Curtis has gone over the work and its sources again however been found, some missing their orchestral accompaniments, Dordolo / Bartoli / Scotting / and come up with new conclusions. Although the opera is published in various locations, and the lost recitatives and other missing parts Il Complesso Barocco / complete, he suggests ways to emend, cut, or compensate for the have been composed by Alessandro Ciccolini. Alan Curtis / directed by weaknesses of the outmoded libretto and restore Admeto to the John Pascoe (Spoleto position it deserves, as musically one of Handel’s greatest operas. Festival, 2006) Dynamic (2007) D. Scarlatti: TOLOMEO E ALESSANDRO (1711) Full score and piano-vocal Universally admired for his keyboard music, the vocal music of CD Domenico Scarlatti has until very recently been largely ignored. Hallenberg / Ek / Tolomeo e Alessandro was known only from a manuscript of Act I Invernizzi / Baka / Milanesi / in a private collection in Milan. Recently the entire opera turned up Nesi / Il Complesso Traetta: BUOVO D’ANTONA (1758) Full score and piano-vocal NEW in England and surprisingly revealed that Domenico was after all Barocco / Alan Curtis A charmingly light-hearted libretto by the well-known Venetian CD a very fi ne dramatic composer, perhaps even more appealingly so Universal Music Spain / playwright Carlo Goldoni, was set to music by the as-yet- Trogu-Röhrich / Russo- than his father Alessandro. -
Heroes and Heroines Handel
Heroes & Heroines Booklet (New Times) 5/5/05 9:03 Page 2 CORO The Sixteen Edition CORO The Sixteen Edition Sarah Connolly Heroes and Heroines Handel To find out more about HARRY CHRISTOPHERS The Sixteen, concerts tours THE SYMPHONY OF or to buy CDs, visit www.thesixteen.com C O R 1 6 0 2 5 HARMONY AND INVENTION Heroes & Heroines Booklet (New Times) 5/5/05 9:03 Page 46 FROM HERCULES (Dejanira) I have to confess thatOfficial this recording launch of makes‘Heroes me and feel Heroines’ very Sarah Connolly proud. Proud, in thatat everythe 2004 singer Handel who in has Oxford ever Festival,left The bm Sinfonia (Act 2) Sixteen to pursue a solomade career, possible has through been, andthe generousindeed is, Heroes and Heroines very successful. Sarahsupport Connolly, of The however, Zvi Meitar is more Family than Fund. that – she is exceptional. bn Recitative George Frideric Handel She sang with theRecording group in Producer: the late Mark 1980s Brown and early 1990s and her virtuosity,Recording stunning Engineer: performing Mike Hatch ability Dissembling, false, perfidious Hercules!HARRY CHRISTOPHERSThe sun should cease to dawn, the silver moon and vivacious personalityRecorded were at St. very Silas muchthe Martyr, apparent then; Did he not swear, when THEfirst heSYMPHONY woo’d my OFlove, HARMONYBe blotted AND fromINVENTION her orb, ere he prov’d false? Kentish Town, London there was always an additional surge of electricity when Photography: Peter Warren. www.peterwarren.co.uk she was around. Now, of course, Sarah is one ofVocal this Consultant: country’s Gerald finest Martin singers Moore and a great Handelian. -
New Production / First Ever Performance in Frankfurt
New production / First ever performance in Frankfurt RODELINDA, REGINA DE’ LONGOBARDI Dramma per musica in three acts by George Frideric Handel Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym based on Pierre Corneille's Pertharite, roi des Lombards (1652) Sung in Italian with German and English surtitles Conductor: Andrea Marcon Director: Claus Guth Rehearsed by: Axel Weidauer Set and Costume Designer: Christian Schmidt Lighting Designer: Joachim Klein Video: Andi A. Müller Choreography: Ramses Sigl Dramaturge: Konrad Kuhn Rodelinda: Lucy Crowe Bertarido: Andreas Scholl Grimoaldo: Martin Mitterrutzner Eduige: Katharina Magiera Unulfu: Jakub Józef Orliński Garibaldo: Božidar Smiljanić Flavio: Fabián Augusto Gómez Bohórquez and others Oper Frankfurt's Extras; Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester Co-production with the Teatro Real, Madrid, Opéra de Lyon and Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona The King’s Theatre, Haymarket, London was the venue for the World Premiere on February 13 1725 of Rodelinda by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). This masterpiece, intended for the Royal Academy of Music, was a huge success for this very successful opera and oratorio composer at the height of his career in London. The libretto was written by the experienced theatre man and adapter of texts, Nicola Francesco Haym. It was based on Pierre Corneille's tragedy Pertharite, roi des Lombards (1652). After being seen in Lyon and Barcelona this celebrated Claus Guth production, first seen in Madrid in 2017, now comes to Frankfurt, with an almost entirely new cast, before going on to Amsterdam in 2020. Bertarido, King of the Langobards, kills his brother in a fight over the throne. He flees and spreads rumours of his death. -
Rodelinda Regina De’Longobardi
George Frideric Handel Rodelinda Regina de’Longobardi CONDUCTOR Opera in three acts Harry Bicket Libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from PRODUCTION Antonio Salvi’s work of the same name Stephen Wadsworth Saturday, December 3, 2011, 12:30–4:35 pm SET DESIGNER Thomas Lynch COSTUME DESIGNER Martin Pakledinaz LIGHTING DESIGNER The production of Rodelinda was made possible Peter Kaczorowski by a generous gift of John Van Meter. Additional funding was received from Mercedes and Sid Bass, and the Hermione Foundation. GENERAL MANAGER Peter Gelb MUSIC DIRECTOR James Levine PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR Fabio Luisi 2011–12 Season The 20th Metropolitan Opera performance of George Frideric Handel’s Rodelinda Regina de’Longobardi This performance conductor is being Harry Bicket broadcast live over The cast in order of appearance Toll Brothers– Metropolitan Rodelinda, Queen of Milan, wife of Bertarido Opera Renée Fleming International Radio Network, Grimoaldo, usurper of Milan, betrothed to Eduige sponsored by Joseph Kaiser Toll Brothers, America’s luxury Garibaldo, counselor to Grimoaldo homebuilder®, Shenyang * with generous long-term Eduige, Bertarido’s sister, bethrothed to Grimoaldo support from Stephanie Blythe * The Annenberg Bertarido, King of Milan, believed to be dead Foundation, the Andreas Scholl Vincent A. Stabile Endowment for Unulfo, counselor to Grimoaldo, secretly loyal Broadcast Media, to Bertarido and contributions Iestyn Davies from listeners worldwide. Flavio, son of Rodelinda and Bertarido Moritz Linn This performance is also being continuo: broadcast live on Harry Bicket, harpsichord recitative Metropolitan Opera Bradley Brookshire, harpsichord ripieno Radio on SiriusXM David Heiss, cello , theorbo and baroque guitar channel 74. Daniel Swenberg Saturday, December 3, 2011, 12:30–4:35 pm This afternoon’s performance is being transmitted live in high definition to movie theaters worldwide.