Word: arioso
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quoted: "The story of the Passion is cast in a series of pictures. At the characteristic points the narrative breaks off and the scene that has just passed is made the subject of a pious meditation. This is effected in arias that are usually led up to by an arioso-like recitative. At minor resting points the feelings of the Christian spectators are expressed in chorale verses...
...ingenious. The story of the Passion is cast in a series of pictures. At the characteristic points the narrative breaks off, and the scene that has just passed is made the subject of a pious meditation. This is effected in arias that are usually led up to by an arioso-like recitative. At minor resting points the feelings of the Christian spectators are expressed in chorale verses. The choice of these fell to Bach, and it is just in the insertion of these choral strophes that the full depth of Bach's poetic sense is revealed. It would be impossible...
Bach's Arioso and Granados' Goyescas Intermezzo by Felix Salmond (Columbia, $1.25)-'Cellist Salmond makes a particularly neat arrangement of the Intermezzo to which La Argentina does one of her most seductive dances...
...Handel--Arioso--"Ombra mai fu dt vegetabile" from "Serse". Mr. Partridge accompanied by string orchestra...