These pieces have both style and substance, epitomised by the brilliant concert variations on a Bellini cavatina, here played by de Beenhouwer. |
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First, seemingly overwhelmed by circumstances, she sings a slow, sad cavatina. |
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In opera the cavatina is an aria, generally of brilliant character, sung in one or two sections without repeats. |
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Here are recitatives, a cavatina, a cabaletta, and a finale, right out of a Rossini opera — and delivered with a comparable level of invention. |
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These are the preserve of Skelton, whose cavatina has pathos and beauty. |
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In early 18th-century cantatas, notably those of J. S. Bach, the cavatina was a short, epigrammatic piece sometimes sung between the speech-like recitative and the more lyric arioso. |
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Berlioz's love of opera and knowledge of virtuosic writing are combined in the Rêverie et caprice, which is an arrangement of a cavatina that was cut from Benvenuto Cellini. |
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Likewise the Cavatina hinted at rubato and portamento plus intriguingly strung-out ornaments. |
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Free for eight to 25-yearolds, thanks to the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust. |
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