Sheet music arranged for pianovocalchords, and singer pro in d major. If you wish to reprint translations, please make sure you include the names of the. Like every other french song composer of the time, reynaldo was drawn to the. Hawkins, paul jr scholarly program notes on the graduate vocal recital of paul hawkins jr summer 2016. Hahn was a child prodigy who attained fame at the age of 14 with his first published song, the attractive if my verses have wings 1888, which is included in the graham disc.
Reynaldo hahn the poet declares that his verses would fly to his lovers garden, to her hearth, to her side, if only they had wings. Full text of all articles the berkeley daily planet. Scholarly program notes on the graduate vocal recital of. The young composers ability to exploit the beauty of the human voice is evident. So reynaldo hahn was a venezuelan of jewish origin whose family fled to paris to escape political unrest in their native country some things never change. Bbc wales cardiff singer of the world 2009 recital one.
Proust said of hahns work that never since schumann has music painted such sorrow, and the melancholy, introspective note emerges clearly in even so early a song. With all machine translations, you must be careful. Chloris offer a sense of hahns musical aesthetic and his approach to text setting. Play streams in full or download mp3 from classical archives, the largest and best organized classical music site on the web. Des racines et des ailes is broadcast two wednesdays per month on the france 3 television network and is rebroadcast on tv5. Best known as a composer of songs, he wrote in the french classical tradition of the melodie. With speechlike vocal lines that are nonetheless lyrical, and a fluid and complementary piano accompaniment, the songs tap the emotional resonance of their poetic texts. My verses would flee, sweet and fragile hugo the liedernet. The youthfulness of the composer he was thirteen makes its. Pauline donalda 1907, ninon vallin, beverly sills, elisabeth schwartzkopf, tino rossi 1954, beverly sills note.
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