On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Ernie Valenzuela wrote:
> Dear VocaList members,
> Could I please compile from you a list of your preferred
> settings for baritone to the above-mentioned subject?
Butterworth: Six Songs from 'A Shropshire Lad'; Bredon Hill and Other
Songs (cycles)
Britten: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake (cycle; written for Dietrich
Fischer-Dieskau)
Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel; The House of Life (cycles)
Sviridov: Otchalivshaya Rus' (Russia Cast Adrift) (cycle; composed for
Dmitri Hvorostovsky)
Ravel: Don Quichotte a Dulcinee (cycle; composed for Martial Singher)
Ibert: Chansons de Don Quichotte (cycle; composed for Feodor Chaliapin)
Ives: General William Booth Enters into Heaven (song)
Poulenc: Quatre airs chantes (cycle; composed for Pierre Bernac)
Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Opus 145a
(cycle)
I don't know if the following are explictly for baritone, but I have heard
them performed by baritones:
Warlock: The Singer; The Droll Lover; Captain Stratton's Fancy; Late
Summer; Rest, Sweet Nymphs; To the Memory of a Great Singer (individual
songs)
Gurney: Black Stitchel; Most Holy Night; The Singer; Ha'nacker Mill
(songs)
Ives: Five Street Songs (cycle)
KM
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