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La Favorita "opera scrap" for two guitars on YouTube
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Donald Sauter
Feb 9, 2012, 7:25:50 PM2/9/12
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Here's the 19th opera scrap, "La Favorita", from Justin Holland's
series of twenty "Scraps From The Operas Arranged For Two Guitars".
La Favorita (1840) was composed by Gaetano Donizetti.
La Favorita: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTbpF1K6BuM
Be forewarned, this is probably our least successful of the 20
scraps. If you know how Leonora comes screaming in on "Scritto in
ciel" you're in for a disappointment right off the bat. And there's a
kind of sameness to the three sections which we didn't overcome.
Holland didn't even supply tempo indications for the 2nd and 3rd
sections. And there are a few mistakes and typos we didn't catch,
like four extraneous measures (16-19) in the first section, and the
pickup notes into the 3rd section, "De' nemici tuoi lo sdegno",
printed a third high.
On the other hand, maybe we come closest to sounding like amateur
guitarists from Holland's time on this one. :-)
For the record, the opera was originally written in French, and was
titled "La Favorite".
Feel free to download mp3s of any or all of the "opera scraps" from my
web site:
http://donaldsauter.com/justin-holland-guitar.htm#p3
Donald Sauter
http://donaldsauter.com/index.html#guitar
series of twenty "Scraps From The Operas Arranged For Two Guitars".
La Favorita (1840) was composed by Gaetano Donizetti.
La Favorita: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTbpF1K6BuM
Be forewarned, this is probably our least successful of the 20
scraps. If you know how Leonora comes screaming in on "Scritto in
ciel" you're in for a disappointment right off the bat. And there's a
kind of sameness to the three sections which we didn't overcome.
Holland didn't even supply tempo indications for the 2nd and 3rd
sections. And there are a few mistakes and typos we didn't catch,
like four extraneous measures (16-19) in the first section, and the
pickup notes into the 3rd section, "De' nemici tuoi lo sdegno",
printed a third high.
On the other hand, maybe we come closest to sounding like amateur
guitarists from Holland's time on this one. :-)
For the record, the opera was originally written in French, and was
titled "La Favorite".
Feel free to download mp3s of any or all of the "opera scraps" from my
web site:
http://donaldsauter.com/justin-holland-guitar.htm#p3
Donald Sauter
http://donaldsauter.com/index.html#guitar
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