Name: Pieta Signore, Stradella with tenor Ulf Bergström. Live recording, rehearsal, excerpt 2024. by UlfBergstrom_Artist
Duration: 27 s
Description: Pieta Signore, Antonio Alessandro Stradella, Niedermeyer, Fetis, excerpt, by Ulf Bergström the Tenor. Live rehearsal, 2024. Aria da chiesa.

Pieta Signore, Antonio Alessandro Stradella, Niedermeyer, Fetis, excerpt, by Ulf Bergström the Tenor. Live rehearsal, 2024. Aria da chiesa.

Pieta Signore, Stradella with tenor Ulf Bergström. Live recording, rehearsal, excerpt  2024.

Earth, in all its marvelous vitality and fragility, has inspired generations of composers. In The Oceanides, Sibelius conjures the water nymphs of Greek mythology and the broad majesty of the sea. Dvořák’s The Wild Dove is based on a dark folktale about a dove’s prophetic song. Childhood memories shape Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, his sumptuous masterpiece.

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Swedish tenor, artist, actor, and crooner, who has been on the stage since 1982, debuted in Tosca, the Shepard Boy as an 11 year old.

Pieta Signore, Stradella with tenor Ulf Bergström. Live recording, rehearsal, excerpt 2024.

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