Performed by George Shirley, tenor
Accompaniment: Wayne Sanders, piano
Tenors who have begun to explore a slightly more diverse palette of music will find tremendous use in this master class, a broad collection of contest solos, as performed by George Shirley, and then by you, the soloist. Includes a high-quality printed vocal score annotated with performance suggestions and a compact disc with complete versions (with soloist) followed by stereo accompaniments to each piece, minus the soloist. Includes: Mendelssohn, Felix – Elias (Elijah), op. 70: 'Be thou faithful' • Rachmaninov, Sergei – In the Silence of Night • Massenet, Jules (m); Silvestre, Armand (l) – Crépuscule (after Armand Silvestre) • Dello Joio, Norman (m) – There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind (after an Elizabethan poem) • Swanson, Howard (m); Hughes, Langston (l) – Night Song (after Langston Hughes) • Leoncavallo, Ruggero – Mattinata.
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