Recitative & aria from Mozart's "Le nozze di Figaro." Accompanied by Margaret Singer, recorded at Big City Studio with Paul in L.A.

Translation:

At last comes the moment  
When, without reserve, I can rejoice
In my lover’s arms: timid scruples,
Hence from my heart, 
And do not come to trouble my delight.
Oh how the spirit of this place,
The earth and the sky, seem
To echo the re of love!
How the night furthers my stealth!
Come, do not delay, oh bliss,
Come where love calls thee to joy, 
While night’s torch does not shine in the sky, 
While the air is still dark and the world quiet.
Here murmurs the stream, here sports the breeze, 
Which refreshes the heart with its sweet whispers.
Here fowers smile and the grass is cool;
Here everything invites to the pleasures of love.
Come, my dearest, and amid these sheltered trees
I will wreathe thy brow with roses.

Giunse al fin... Deh, vieni non tardar

Sung by Alyssa Marshall using her iPhone. :)
 From Wikipedia: Christian hymn based on a Swedish poem written by Carl Gustav Boberg (1859–1940),  translated into English by British missionary Stuart K. Hine, who also added two original verses of his own composition.

How Great Thou Art

Written by Gounod. Accompanied by Margaret Singer, recorded at Big City Studio with Paul in L.A. 2013

Je Veux Vivre (I Want to Live)

Written by Jeanine Tesori specifically for singer/actress Kristen Chenowith.

Sung here by Alyssa Marshall at a Longwood Opera Summer Concert.

Thanks SO much to our fabulous accompanist John Ferguson, and to the talented Gary Thies for recording this.

Girl in 14G

Sung by Alyssa Marshall
Okay, I tried to do this recording myself, and it sucks. I'm now determined to make a good recording of it. But, I dedicate this effort to my dear friend Laura Osborne, who wanted to hear it. Love you, girl! It's for Ally and Ava too, of course! ;)

Let It Go

Before I Gaze at You Again from the musical Camelot. Accompanied on a reeeeeally old piano with sticky keys by Phyllis Daniel. :) Enjoy! 

Before I Gaze at You Again

This piece is one of four in a set called Quatre chansons de jeunesse by Claude Debussy. I performed and recorded all four for a 2007 recital in undergraduate school at SUNY Purchase and I may just have to upload them all. This one is supremely lovely. Pretty difficult to learn though! Translation below.

Moonlight
Your soul is a chosen landscape
 charmed by masquers and revellers
 playing the lute and dancing and almost
 sad beneath their fanciful disguises!
 
 Even while singing, in a minor key,
 of victorious love and fortunate living
 they do not seem to believe in their happiness,
 and their song mingles with the moonlight,
 
 the calm moonlight, sad and beautiful,
 which sets the birds in the trees dreaming,
 and makes the fountains sob with ecstasy,
 the tall slender fountains among the marble statues!




Clair de lune

This is me singing Songs My Mother Taught Me, written in 1880 by Antonín Dvořák. I think a more literal translation of this song's title is "When My Mother Taught Me." Excuse my Czech diction, it was my first time! 2009

Translation:

Songs my mother taught me, In the days long vanished;
Seldom from her eyelids were the teardrops banished.
Now I teach my children, each melodious measure.
Oft the tears are flowing, oft they flow from my memory's treasure.

Songs My Mother Taught Me (Dvořák)

"Grace" is a fairly new art song written by Michael Tilson Thomas. I'm so glad I found it, learned it, and now it feels like I've known it all my life. This is a live recording of me singing it at my benefit recital in April 2013. Pianist Joshua Allen.

Thanks to whoever is there for this tasty plate of herring!
Thanks to whoever may care for this tasty plate of herring.
Yesterday swimming swift in a salty sea
and today silver offerings made to me!
So if you please won’t you pass me whatever’s still left of this tasty treat we’re sharing
’cause the truth is it tastes good. Um um um.

Thanks to whoever is there for the sacred joy of music
and thank you fiddlers and flutists and divas and rock and roll drummers.
Thanks to whoever has dared give us brave new sounds of music.
Thank you composers, professors, and casual off-the-cuff hummers.
So commend singers down through the centuries,
cherished friends Wolfgang, Gustav, George, dear Lenny.
It seems to me that we all feel so close to the truth
in the notes our souls declaring
and the truth is it feels good. Um um um.

So many people calling out to one another,
help us to hear them, teach us that all men are brothers,
so many people, so many stories, so many questions,
so many blessings make us grateful whatever comes next
in this life on earth we’re sharing.
For the truth is life is good.
So many mem’ries…
Amen

Grace - Michael Tilson Thomas

This is Brent Hetherington, baritone & Alyssa Marshall, soprano singing the Pappageno duet from Mozart's The Magic Flute. Sung in english April, 2013 with pianist Joshua Allen. Enjoy the sounds of two birds in love!

Pappageno Pappagena Duet

I'm a classically trained vocalist with a Masters in Music. Singing is everything to me. I hope you enjoy my recordings. :)

Alyssa Marshall

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