Gioachino Rossini: Duetto buffo di due gatti (Comic duet for two cats)

The Duetto buffo di due gatti ("humorous duet for two cats") is a popular performance piece for two sopranos which is often performed as a concert encore. The "lyrics" consist entirely of the repeated word "miau" ("meow"). Sometimes it is also performed by a soprano and a tenor, or a soprano and a bass.

While the piece is typically attributed to Gioachino Rossini, it was not actually written by him, but is instead a compilation written in 1825 that draws principally on his 1816 opera, Otello. Hubert Hunt, in his biography of Robert Lucas de Pearsall, Robert Lucas Pearsall: the Compleat Gentleman and His Music, 1795-1856 (Chesham Bois,1977), putatively claims that the compiler was Pearsall, who for this purpose adopted the pseudonym "G. Berthold"

 
If you buy the track, you will automatically receive the tutorial track (with vocal melody played by piano) in the corresponding key.
You can also download the aria score for free.

Track: mp3, 320kbps, 6.9MB, 2:53