Verdi: "Stride la vampa", aria from "Il Trovatore"

[Martin Jonas]

Giuseppe Verdi (1853), "Il Trovatore"
Act II, Scene 1: "Stride la vampa" - Aria
Solo mandolin performed by Martin Jonas.
Piano accompaniment performed by Héctor Valls, downloaded from IMSLP under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license.

Time for a bit of opera: This is one of Verdi's most popular arias, Acuzena's song "Stride la vampa" from "Il Trovatore". I am playing the vocal melody on mandolin, using a pre-recorded piano accompaniment by Héctor Valls, downloaded from IMSLP.

The score and the MP3 accompaniment are at IMSLP:

http://imslp.org/wiki/Il_trovatore_(Verdi,_Giuseppe)

I am playing my 1915 Luigi Embergher mandolin on this recording.

Fun lively piece to play on mandolin, and technically fairly straightforward.



Martin

[Hany Hayek]

Thanks Martin, this was beautifully played. This mandolin sound is great.

[frankie]

Good call, Martin, and well done. The whole 2nd act of Il Trovatore has good things in it, and "Stride la vampa" is a gem among them. Azucena rules!