Recitative was speech-like declamation with minimal accompaniment, usually from a harpsichord or fortepiano: it paved the way for the set-piece aria in which a character could ruminate ...

This week, a few words on the basic song unit of opera — the aria. Sponsor Message Opera has sometimes been called the most complete art in that it presents an elaborate (if sometimes precarious ...

Some of the finest playing of the evening was achieved in Miss Vosgerchian's own Recitative and Aria, a pianistically inspired piece which revealed some Stravinsky influence and worked up to a ...

Davies mirrored the gentle simplicity of the opening aria, only starting to dial up the intensity as the work moved into the more agitated and harmonically complex recitative. As the text – written by ...