Coloratura

Creator: 
Robert Wörle, tenor with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin conducted by Marcus Creed; CAPRICCIO
Description: 

Sound recording of a tenor soloist, accompanied by orchestra, singing an elaborate vocal passage. The term "coloratura" specifically refers to a complex melody with runs, trills, wide leaps, or similar virtuosic material. This musical feature is particularly associated with vocal music in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Publisher: 
CAPRICCIO - Ein Produkt der Delta Musik GmbH
Contributor: 
Michael Anthony McGee
Rights: 
CAPRICCO, all rights reserved
Format: 
.WAV
Language: 
Italian
Type: 
Sound
Source: 

Excerpt from "Non abbandona mai Iddio" from La Conversione di Sant' Agostino by Johann Adolf Hasse.

Date: 
May 6-9, 1991
Location: 

Friedenskirche Potsdam-Sanssouci

Subject: 

Oratorio, Sacred music, Sacred music in Italian, Arias, Tenor, Galant

Transcription: 

"... ti svellera dal cor." (English translation: "..it will reveal the [your] heart."

Original Format: 
CD
Duration: 
00:00:15
Bit Rate/Frequency: 
1411kbps/44.100khz