arioso
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All the vocal lines skirt rhythmically square recitative and tender arioso, sung over a subdued disco track.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2016
Recitative and arioso passages allow the singers to barrel through words at a tremendous clip.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2015
The obbligato viole d’amore parts in the bass arioso “Betrachte, meine Seel’,” were ravishingly played.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2014
Her vocal lines are mostly routine arioso, while the ensemble writing is most effective when thinned to a single line – a teetering piano solo, perhaps, or a thrummed cello.
From The Guardian ● May 25, 2010
But on the other hand it is impossible to be blind to its relationship to the more metrical arioso of Monteverde's earlier work or perhaps to the canzone of Caccini's "Nuove Musiche."
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by Henderson, W. J. (William James)
Short ariettas and ariosos keep “Serse,” a comic love story, moving along.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2022
His sound is drawn not from the Caucasus or Russia but from a rich well of Western European Romantic melody, and his ariosos are the opera’s best-known excerpts.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2018
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