Masters Thesis
Graduate voice recital
This graduate voice recital consists of music in a variety of genres and styles spanning from Handel's Baroque period to the early twentieth century Spanish zarzuela. The program consists of sacred music (Exsultate, jubilate K165 by W.A. Mozart) and secular music. The secular repertoire includes selected arias from George Frederic Handel's Semele, which portrays a mythological theme; Hugo Wolf’s German lied and Ernest Chausson's French melodie which expresses themes of love and nature. The two zarzuela arias from La canci6n del olvido and El Barbero de Sevilla are also secular. The program depicts an array of genres, styles and emotions by the diversified musical compositional style of the composers. The composers were greatly influenced by their time period, geography, as well as cultural and traditional backgrounds. These influences are revealed in their compositions, and beautifully and uniquely shape and express the meaning and emotion in the music and text of each work, song and aria. In the first half of the recital, I begin with Mozart's Exsultate, jubilate, K165. This motet for soprano, strings and organ was written during Mozart's visit to Milan for the production of his opera Lucio Silla. A few weeks after the premiere, Mozart composed a motet for the opera's leading male soprano, Venanzio Rauzzini, who sang it in a Milanese church on January 17, 1773, ten days before Mozart' s 1 th birthday. It is among the most famous of Mozart's early works. The opening Allegro, "Exsultate, jubilate," is psalm-like in its praise to God. The extended coloratura passages in the first movement and in the last movement, "Alleluia," displayed Rauzzini's virtuosity. An intervening recitative encourages the faithful to rise up and give handfuls of lilies to the happy dawn. The middle aria, "Tu virginum corona,” is a tender and lyrical prayer to the Virgin Mary for peace and comfort. Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) is considered to be one of the greatest German composers of songs after Schubert. His typical method was to compose many poems by one poet, often in a span of a few weeks. The songs on this program are selected from among Wolfs 53 songs on poems by Eduard Morike (1804-1875), composed between February and October 1888, and his 20 songs on poems by Joseph Eichendorff (1788-1857), mostly composed in August and September 1888. Wolfs other major collections were the 51 songs on poems by Goethe, 34 songs on Spanish poems translated into German, and 46 songs on anonymous Italian poems translated into German. The three songs chosen here demonstrate Wolfs versatility. "Der Gartner," is the song of a young gardener who is infatuated with the princess on her prancing pony, depicted with a persistent dotted rhythm in the music. "Verschwiegene Liebe" is a quiet nocturne, sending thoughts of love through the night. "Er ist’s” is a poem contained in one of Morike's novels, Maler Nolten, where it is sung by a girl working in a garden. It exuberantly announces the arrival of spring, ending with a famously brilliant piano postlude. (See more in text.)
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