24 Italian Songs and Arias - Medium High Voice (Book/CD): Medium High Voice - Book/CD (Vocal Collection) Immediately

I had this book previously and had studied and sung many of the songs. After years of not singing these songs, I had the opportunity to sing at an Italian Festival,on rather short notice. There was no pianist available and I was about to say that I could not do it when I found myself online looking for possible accompaniments. I ran across this book with the CD accompaniments. The book arrived the next day. I found enough accompaniments for songs that I knew. I used three of the accompaniments, which I recommend highly, those being Amarilli, Mia Bella, "Gia il Sole dal Gange" and "O, del Mio Dolce'Ardor." These are all played at a slower tempo than the accompaniments of these in the Paton book, which are all played too fast, especially "O, del Mio Dolce'Ardor," which is just played at a ridiculous, unsingable, really unmusical pace in the Paton book. I could not use the "Sebben Crudele" accompaniment from this book as it was played too fast. However, the good thing about this CD is that you actually can slow these accompaniments down on your computer, but I didn't have time to mess with that for this performance. In general, this Book/CD set is a boon to singers and well worth the money. I agree with a previous reviewer however - it would have been nice if they had included the melody which could then be turned off after it was learned.Get more detail about 24 Italian Songs and Arias - Medium High Voice (Book/CD): Medium High Voice - Book/CD (Vocal Collection).