Boosey & Hawkes Opera Anthology – Baritone/Bass

Description

This landmark publication collects arias and role excerpts from operas by John Adams, Benjamin Britten, Carlisle Floyd, Richard Strauss, and many other composers published by Boosey & Hawkes. Includes extensive plot notes and translations. The baritone/bass volume also includes nine arias for bass or bass-baritone.

CONTENTS FOR BARITONE:

• John Adams: DOCTOR ATOMIC: Batter my heart
• A FLOWERING TREE: Storyteller's Aria
• NIXON IN CHINA: News has a kind of mystery
• Mister Premier
• Dominick Argento: THE ASPERN PAPERS: What a yielding nature she has
• CASANOVA'S HOMECOMING: You have already heard one sermon tonight
• MISS HAVISHAM'S FIRE: If in the years to come
• A WATER BIRD TALK: The Lecturer (Theme)
• Leonard Bernstein: MASS: A Simple Song
• Benjamin Britten: ALBERT HERRING: The Vicar's Aria (Virtue, says Holy Writ)
• Tickling a trout
• Churchyard's agog with a crowd of folk
• BILLY BUDD: Billy Budd, king of the birds!
• Billy's Farewell (Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray!)
• GLORIANA: Cecil's Report Cecil's Song of Government
• A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM O Helen, goddess
• THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA: Lucretia! I'm sick of that name! Tarquinius's Aria (Within this frail crucible of light)
• Carlisle Floyd: OF MICE AND MEN: George's Aria (You bet it's gonna be diff'rent)
• WILLIE STARK: We all come out of the earth
• John Gay, realized by Benjamin Britten: THE BEGGAR'S OPERA: Thus Gamesters united in friendship
• Sergei Rachmaninoff: ALEKO: Aleko's Cavatina
• FRANCESCA DA RIMINI: Lanceotto's Aria
• Ned Rorem: OUR TOWN: When I got married
• Richard Strauss: ARABELLA: Nimmst einen Fiaker
• Sie gibt mir keinen Blick
• ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Lieben, Hassen, Hoffen, Zagen
• Igor Stravinsky: THE RAKE'S PROGRESS: Come, master
• I burn! I freeze!

CONTENTS FOR BASS-BARITONE AND BASS:

• John Adams: DOCTOR ATOMIC: Teller's Aria
• Dominick Argento: THE SHOEMAKERS' HOLIDAY: Simon's Aria
• Leonard Bernstein: TROUBLE IN TAHITI: There's a Law
• Benjamin Britten: BILLY BUDD: Claggart's Aria
• GLORIANA: Raleigh's Song
• A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM: Bottom's Dream
• Carlisle Floyd: COLD SASSY TREE: I've known I loved you
• SUSANNAH: Hear me, O Lord
• I'm a lonely man, Susannah

Pieces

• Batter my heart from J. Adams: Doctor Atomic
• Storyteller's Aria from J. Adams: A Flowering Tree
• News has a kind of mystery from J. Adams: Nixon in China
• Mister Premier from J. Adams: Nixon in China
• What a yielding nature she has from Argento: The Aspern Papers
• You have already heard one sermon tonight from Argento: Casanova's Homecoming
• If in the years to come from Argento: Miss Havisham's Fire
• Argento: The Lecturer (Theme) from A Waterbird Talk
• A Simple Song from Bernstein: MASS (A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players, and Dancers)
• Billy Budd, king of the birds! from Britten: Bill Budd, Op. 50
• Billy's Farewell (Look! Through the port comes the from Britten: Bill Budd, Op. 50
• The Vicar's Aria (Virtue, says Holy Writ) from Britten: Albert Herring, Op. 39
• Tickling a trout from Britten: Albert Herring, Op. 39
• Churchyard's agog with a crowd of folk from Britten: Albert Herring, Op. 39
• Cecil's Report Cecil's Song of Government from Britten: Gloriana, Op. 53
• O Helen, goddess from Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64
• Lucretia! I'm sick of that name! Tarquinius's Aria from Britten: The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37
• George's Aria (You bet it's gonna be diff'rent) from Floyd: Of Mice and Men
• Floyd: We all come out of the earth from Willie Stark
• Thus Gamesters united in friendship from Britten: Beggar's Opera, Op. 43
• Aleko's Cavatina from Rachmaninoff: Aleko (Алеко) (1892)
• Lanceotto's Aria from Rachmaninoff: Francesca da Rimini, Op. 25
• When I got married from Rorem: Our Town (2005)
• Nimmst einen Fiaker from Strauss: Arabella, TrV 263, Op. 79
• Sie gibt mir keinen Blick from Strauss: Arabella, TrV 263, Op. 79
• Lieben, Hassen, Hoffen, Zagen from Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, TrV 228, Op. 60
• Come, master from Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (1951)
• I burn! I freeze! from Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (1951)