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    Default Romantic lieder on mandolin and piano

    One of the nice features of IMSLP is that it has the option of uploading backing tracks as well as musical scores, and there are at least two excellent pianists (Héctor Valls and Roman Richards) who have recorded backing tracks on piano, intended for vocalists to use in practicing.

    I first started playing around with these backing tracks a couple of years ago to see which ones work with mandolin instead of vocals -- just playing the piano recording through HiFi speakers and playing along from the score. Here is a batch I've tried out over the last few days, all featuring my 1898 Giuseppe Vinaccia bowlback:

    Johannes Brahms (1833-97): Romanzen und Lieder, Op. 84
    4. Vergebliches Ständchen (Futile Serenade), Niederrheinisches Volkslied


    This is my instrumental recording of this unusually lively Brahms song, played on mandolin to a pre-recorded piano accompaniment by Roman Richards (used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). Score and the mp3 of the accompaniment are at IMSLP:

    https://imslp.org/wiki/5_Romances_an...s%2C_Johannes)

    This is the version for high voices, in A major.


    https://youtu.be/7JSXyACx1dA

    Richard Strauss (1886): 8 Gedichte aus 'Letzte Blätter', Op.10
    1. Zueignung ("Dedication" or "Devotion")
    Piano accompaniment by Roman Richards, used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0.


    This is one of the earliest Strauss songs, at the age of 22: the opening piece from his first published collection of songs. I am playing it in C major:

    https://imslp.org/wiki/8_Gedichte_au...auss,_Richard)


    https://youtu.be/o0IQB1oVKwo

    Ottorino Respighi (1906): Nebbie
    Piano accompaniment by Roman Richards, used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0.


    This is my instrumental version of Respighi's song "Nebbie", played in F# minor:

    https://imslp.org/wiki/Nebbie_(Respighi%2C_Ottorino)


    https://youtu.be/B-LyJyG3_R0

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    Three more:

    César Franck (1822-1890): Panis Angelicus
    Piano accompaniment by Héctor Valls, used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0.


    This well-known hymn was written in 1872 by the Belgian romantic composer César Franck to words by St. Thomas Aquinus.

    My recording is in A major:

    https://imslp.org/wiki/Mass,_Op.12_(Franck,_C%C3%A9sar)


    https://youtu.be/bSiJaqR31Gw

    And a couple I did a few months ago:

    John Ireland (1879-1962): Sea Fever
    Piano Accompaniment by Hector Valls (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0)


    This is a song composed by the British composer John Ireland to a poem by John Masefield. I am playing it in A minor.

    Score and MP3 of the piano part are at IMSLP:
    https://imslp.org/wiki/Sea_Fever_(Ireland,_John)


    https://youtu.be/GKwGZo0eQZQ

    Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Die Forelle / The Trout, Op. 32, D. 550
    Piano accompaniment performed by Héctor Valls, downloaded from IMSLP under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license.


    This is an instrumental version of Schubert's Lied, transposed to A major from the original key of D-flat major.

    Score and MP3 of the piano accompaniment are at IMSLP:

    http://imslp.org/wiki/Die_Forelle,_D...hubert,_Franz)


    https://youtu.be/GZQiN8FvIAk

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    Nice job as always.
    Zachary Graft
    Celtic and Christian fiddle and mandolin music
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    Of course, this was one of Jean Pietrapertosa's (1855–1940) schticks. I have one of his published collections of Mendelssohn and Schubert songs someplace.

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    Default Re: Romantic lieder on mandolin and piano

    Thanks, Eugene and Zachary. Yes, I seem to remember Pietrapertosa doing collections of romantic songs, but then he put his name to a lot of things. These are fun to play, anyway, and it's interesting that I find it easier to play songs that have words in languages that I am fluent in (English and German, mainly) rather than ones I'm not (e.g. Italian), even though it's an instrumental performance. Singing along in my head helps with the phrasing.

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