Recitativo and Aria for Soprano and Organo in G major op. 154

Hello everybody, this is a recitativo and Aria in G major (version for soprano and organ) over the following text taken from the Psalms:

Psalm 118, 17 & 29

Psalm 107, 2, 13, 14, 20, 31

Non moriar, sed vivam et narrabo opera Domini.

Confitemini Domino, quoniam bonus, quoniam in saeculum misericordia eius.

Dicant, qui redempti sunt a Domino,

quos redemit de manu adversarii

Et clamaverunt ad Dominum, cum tribularentur,

et de necessitatibus eorum eripuit eos.

Et eduxit eos de tenebris et umbra mortis

et vincula eorum dirupit.

Misit verbum suum et sanavit eos

et eripuit eos de interitionibus eorum.

Confiteantur Domino propter misericordiam eius

et mirabilia eius in filios hominum;

Non moriar, sed vivam et narrabo opera Domini.

hope you like it :)

SoundClick artist: Guglielmo Esposito - Contemporary classical music, 18th and 19th century music, style like Mozart and Beethoven

Hi punki - this is a very nice piece, could very well be mistaken for a Mozart motet (is this a 'motet' ?) Did you prepare the text yourself? I also wonder why the soprano part is in the C clef instead of the usual G.

abot the text, i had the thing in italian, so i translated it in latin, so yes, i kind of prepared it myself and hopefully i will get it performed too.

anyway this is a reduction of the real version which is for string orchestra and soprano, but as you know, for instrument's availability, i did it for organ so to have it easely played in church. but as you can see can go easely also for piano :)

Well, about the use of clefs, i like to use the old clefs when i write vocal music, so it keeps me within the range of voices and anyway it comes automatically to me, since i got used to the different keys with the study of solfeggio and also while studying the "gradus ad parnassum" of Fux.

thanks for listening to my piece :)

no more comments?

P -

First off very nice pic of you at the pianoforte. As for your piece I think it is a little unbalanced - although the vocal lines are quite good, I find the organ part more interesting. Now this is in part that the vocal part is computer generated. A few runs or more embellished lines would all that would be needed - not too much as I hear you are going for a reserved, reverent tone.

Overall keep this in mind for your next piece.

thank you :)

well i had restrictions in time and embellishments because this is a work i had to submit for a competition, and it has to be quite easy to be sung by the singer since it is not a profesional soprano, so i had to keep it easy but nice and pleasant.

since the competition aims to produce new sacred music, then it is suppoed to be played by not professional singers, and that's why. but i am doing the real version, for string orchestra and soprano, and adding mamy things and more complex cadenzas and fermatas. but yeah also with real instrumets is totally different. :)

thank you for the time you spent in listening to it.

I liked it a lot!

It was beautiful!

hi onion :) thanks for the nice compliment :)

P - Ah, your situation explains the piece well! Then bravo for a very good job on it. I admire anyone who does what you did.

It's nice! But it's latin! Always latin - :(

I would like something Italian or English or even a Japanese "european classical" aria would be nice!

Keep on composing! :D

HAHAHAH

i'm sorry if that disappoints you :p i preferred latin over italian for that piece, the words in italian didn't inspire me much...

i have a motet i wrote in 2003 that has the text in english, i should post it here soon :)

it's the only thing in english i have written, so far...

if i knew japanise, i'd do it! would be fun, and i like japanise songs, so it might work well also in classical music.

do you know japanise??

any other comment???