Intermediate Tenor Solos

Performed by George Shirley, tenor Accompaniment: Wayne Sanders, piano Tenors who have begun to explore a slightly more diverse palette of music will find tremendous use in this master class, a broad collection of contest solos, as performed by George Shirley, and then by you, the soloist. Includes a high-quality printed vocal score annotated with performance suggestions and a compact disc with complete versions (with soloist) followed by stereo accompaniments to each piece, minus the soloist. Includes: Mendelssohn, Felix - Elias (Elijah), op. 70: 'Be thou faithful' · Rachmaninov, Sergei - In the Silence of Night · Massenet, Jules (m); Silvestre, Armand (l) - Crépuscule(after Armand Silvestre) · Dello Joio, Norman (m) - There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind (after an Elizabethan poem) · Swanson, Howard (m); Hughes, Langston (l) - Night Song (after Langston Hughes) · Leoncavallo, Ruggero - Mattinata.