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Mezzp-Soprano or Alto & Violin Repertoire?
I'm looking for rep. that features mezzo-soprano or alto voice and violin. Know of any?
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You can't do better than "Erbarme Dich, Mein Gott" from Bach's St. Matthew Passion. It is frequently done with piano.
Consider the beautiful "Violons dan le soir" by Saint-Saens.
Vaughan Williams wrote an exquisite cycle of settings of poems by A. E. Housman called Along the Field for violin and voice. I think it was originally for violin and tenor, but I've heard recordings with a female voice.
Thanks for the suggestions guys! Does anyone know where I might find sheet music for the Vaughan Williams?
Here's a link to the Vaughan Williams:
www.banksmusicpublications.co.uk/product/along-the-field/42196/362/
It's really a beautiful, poignant work and deserves to be better known, but the combination of musicians is so unsual. It's somewhat like The Lark Ascending in that it combines modal English folk-melody with impressionistic effects. There are about five or six short songs, and naturally--as you would expect with A. E. Housman--the poems are mostly about country lads and country lasses dying young.
Thanks! I also found it on the Boosey and Hawkes site too.
At my local library I found compilations of Bach arias w/obligato instrument from the Cantatas, masses & Passions, divided into multiple volumes for each voice. It was Kalmus.
There is a very cool suite for violin and voice by villalobos, its called a menina e a cancao
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January 31, 2011 at 02:13 AM ·
If you are willing to play vla, you could try these:
imslp.org/wiki/2_Songs,_Op.91_(Brahms,_Johannes)
They are gorgeous!