This classical guitar piece was written by Stanley Myers and is most famous for being the
This classical guitar piece was written by Stanley Myers and is most famous for being the theme song to the movie 'The Deer Hunter'(1979). The piece had been recorded by John Williams many years before that movie was made. It had originally been written for piano, but at Williams' request Myers re-wrote it for guitar and expanded it. Before 'Deer Hunter', it had been used on the soundtrack of the movie 'The Walking Stick'(1970). As well as being a hit for John Williams, it has also been a chart success for The Shadows and, with added lyrics by Cleo Laine, for Iris Williams (no relation to John).
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The Leningrad Cowboys is a Finnish rock and roll band famous for its humorous songs and co
The Leningrad Cowboys is a Finnish rock and roll band famous for its humorous songs and concerts featuring the Soviet Red Army Choir.
Currently, the band has eleven Cowboys and two Leningrad Ladies. The songs, all somewhat influenced by polka and progressive rock, and performed in English, have themes such as 'vodka', 'tractors', 'rockets', and 'Genghis Khan', as well as folkloric Russian songs, rock and roll ballads and covers from bands as diverse as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, all with lots of humour.
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The Red Army Choir (Choir Aleksandrov) is a performing ensemble that served as the official army choir of the former Soviet Union's Red Army. The choir consists of a male choir, an orchestra, and a dance ensemble. The songs they perform range from Russian folk tunes to Church hymns, operatic arias and popular music.
In 1991, The Red Army Choir participated in Roger Waters' The Wall concert celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall. They performed an anti-war song "Bring the Boys Back Home".
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Red Army Choir has continued performing, entertaining audiences both inside and outside Russia.
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Farinelli Scores.
This is me... (Arturo Escorza Pedra
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Farinelli Scores.
This is me... (Arturo Escorza Pedraza, the mexican haute-contre & sopranist), singing an alto aria: "Pallido il Sole" from the opera "Artaserse" by Johann Adolph Hasse, aria of Artabano.
I'm singing this in my full range voice, I'm not singing with falsetto.
Looking on Wikipedia I've found this:
"The altino, essentially a male contralto,
is a rare male voice type,
commonly considered the "true" countertenor.
This person can sing high without falsetto
that the usual male passagio.
Typically, this rare voice has problems reaching
depths of even low C (I have those problems :p) unlike most men,
and usually has an androgynous tone, even when speaking.
The typical altino will speak normally between the range
of F# and B below Middle C, (I speak in that range, haha! in "A"), more in keeping
a female than a typical male,
whose speaking voice settles closer to low C.
An even rarer full voice can sing tenor and
female contralto (or even mezzo-soprano) parts with equal ease."
MSN: freude55@hotmail.com, please feel free to add me, only, refer me that you saw me on youtube :)
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Leona Lewis Bleeding Love
(C) 2007 Simco Limited exclusively licensed to Sony BMG Music En
Leona Lewis Bleeding Love
(C) 2007 Simco Limited exclusively licensed to Sony BMG Music Entertainment (UK) Limited
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Si mes vers avaient des ailes! (Victor Hugo), for voice & piano (from "Melodies, Book I")H
Si mes vers avaient des ailes! (Victor Hugo), for voice & piano (from "Melodies, Book I")Hahn. Vedette d'interprète: Pauline Donalda, 1882-1970 The Gramophone and Typewriter Ltd., and sister companies., [S.I.] Registré: [1907], London, England, Gramophone Company.
disque son. : 78 r/min,monophonique ; 10 po
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If my songs had wings!
My songs would float, soft and frail,
To your beautiful garden
If my songs had wings like a bird!
They would fly, sparkling,
To your laughing hearth
If my songs had wings like the spirit.
Near to you, pure and faithful,
They would rush, night and day,
If my songs had wings like love!
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REYNALDO HAHN is often considered an archetypal French composer, a product of effective French music education coupled with the cosmopolitan atmosphere of Paris. The fact that Hahn was not actually French (he was born in Caracas, Venezuela) has never deterred this notion, even among the nationalistic French -- since he made Paris his home for nearly his entire life. Today, as he was during his life, he is best known for his vocal works, ranging from serious opera and operetta to solo songs. His affinity for both the stage and the human voice eventually led to his appointment in 1945 as director of the Paris Opéra.
Hahn's parents were of German and Venezuelan extraction; when he was three years old the family relocated to Paris, where Hahn entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1886. He studied harmony with Théodore DUBOIS, piano with DECOMBES and composition with Jules MASSENET. Massenet's influence is clear in one of Hahn's earliest, and most famous, songs, Si mes vers avaient des ailes (If my verses had wings); written when the composer was only 13, it is a charming setting of verses by Victor Hugo. The combined forces of Massenet's advocacy on his behalf (enough to have his cycle of songs on the poetry of Paul VERLAINE, Chansons grises, published in 1893) and Hahn's own fine singing voice (enabling him to accompany himself in salons and concert halls) helped to establish his reputation in the city.
Early in his career, Hahn made the acquaintance of Sarah BERNHARDT and Marcel PROUST; Proust, especially, would instill in Hahn a deep appreciation and understanding of poetry, which had a profound effect on Hahn's approach to vocal composition. Hahn once wrote, "The genuine beauty of singing consists in a perfect unison, an amalgam, a mysterious alloy of the singing and the speaking voice, or to put it better, the melody and the spoken word." Hahn found himself seduced by the poetry of VICTOR HUGO, Théophile GAUTIER, and Paul VERLAINE; he put his efforts toward creating musical phrasing and rhythmic gestures that would allow the words to speak for themselves. Hahn believed that " Only form can give a piece a chance of lasting...." This perhaps explains his predilection for the older, repetitive formal structures evident in some of his songs, such as "L'automne" (Autumn), "Le printemps" (Spring), and "Quand je fus pris au pavillion" (When I was Lured to her Pavilion).
Hahn's first stage composition was incidental music for Daudet's L'obstacle in 1890; his first opera to reach the stage was the three-act L'île du rêve, performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique in 1898; a more successful serious opera appeared in 1935 (Le marchand de Venise, in three acts, with a libretto by Zamacoïs, after Shakespeare). Notably, with LE MARCHAND DE VENISE, Hahn deliberately returned to the "old-fashioned" division between musical numbers and recitatives and returned the orchestra to a purely accompanimental role. Hahn's most important ballet, LE DIEU BLUE, was composed in 1912 for DIAGHILEV's company (to a scenario by Cocteau and Madrazo). By far, Hahn's most successful theater piece is his operetta CIBOULETTE; it premiered to instant acclaim in Paris in 1923, and has received innumerable performances since.
As a conductor and impresario at the Paris Opéra, Hahn favored the operas of Mozart; he found the earlier composer so fascinating, in fact, that he composed a musical comedy on his life (MOZART, 1925), in which he included pastiches of Mozart's own music.
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Enrico Caruso Sings Di Quella Pira (Tremble, Ye Tyrants!) from 'Il Trovatore'. Recorded in
Enrico Caruso Sings Di Quella Pira (Tremble, Ye Tyrants!) from 'Il Trovatore'. Recorded in 1906. This is one of my best version of this aria - I also love another version of Aureliano Pertile and Luciano Pavarotti.
Played on my Victrola with Mica Soundbox.
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