Item Number: A0.1091749

39 Operatic selections for Baritone and Bass Operatic Voice, Solo Arias or 2 Baritone Duets and Baritone and Bass Duets in English, taken from the stageworks of 21st Century American composer James Nathaniel Holland. Standalone pieces range from moving to dramatic to comedic, including the complete, popular song cycle "A Collection of Sonnets" in range for Baritone. Selections from the Holland operas of Menkaure, On the Wings of the Scarlet Messenger, The Hero and the Damned, The Imaginary Invalid, Canterbury Tales, The Discontented Housewife, The One Upstairs, A Lucky Star, Germain (Baritone arias), O Holy Art (Baritone and Soprano arias arranged for Baritone) and more! Includes: Menkaure's "Hatred Lives in Joondor" for Bass, Germain's "O Truth Where Are You Now" , Songs from the ballets "The Snow Queen" (Waltz of the Roses as Bass solo and Baritone/Bass Duet or Solo) "The Wind in the Willows," (Carol arranged as Duet, and Forget arranged for 2 Baritones, The Incredible Mr. Toad for Bass and When the Toad Came Home for Bass, "Margaret, Margaret" from The Discontented Housewife, (After all, Isn't True Love But) "A Quiet Thing" from the One Upstairs, On the Wings of the Scarlett Messenger's "Think of Me Now and Then" (arranged for Bass) and The Hero and Damned pieces arranged for Baritones and more!.

Mascagni?s draws on church music in this masterful and intense evocation of a small community and one guilt-ridden woman?s position outside of it.

The grand Easter Hymn, scored for pretty much the whole cast of the opera, starts with just a solo organ playing from inside the church nearby. Then we hear an unaccompanied choir singing (in Latin) the beginning of the service ? ?Regina coeli, laetare? ? with the voices of the congregation responding ?Alleluja!?. The choir sings two more phrases and the congregation responds. All this is out of sight.

Transcription for Violoncello and Piano of Mascagni's beautiful Intermezzo from his Cavalleria rusticana.