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Music for Oboe by Martinů & Colin & violin/cello duets by Bach, Beethoven and others

Concerto No. 6, No. 46  by Charles Colin (1832-1881)

Oboe Concerto by William Alwyn (1905-1985)

  1. Andante e rubato
  2. Vivace

Sharon Jung, oboe & Lucy Wenger, piano

“The harmony of light and dark. A recital of violin & cello duos, by Beethoven, Bach and others.”

Four Duets for Violin and Cello, S.804 by J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
English Suite, No. 3, Gavotte by J.S. Bach
Three Duets Opus 30, by Ignace Joseph Pleyel (1757-1831)
No. 1 Allegro Rondo
Eight Duet Opus 39 by Reinhold Ernest Glier (1875-1956)
No. 1 Prelude
No. 2 Gavotte
No. 3 Berceuse (Cradle Song)
Candice Chin, violin & Chris Worswick (guest artist), cello

Music for English horn and British and American songs

 

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Lithograph caricature of Thomas Arne, from a painting by Francesco Bartolozzi

 

A Little English by Burnet Tuthill (1888-1982)
Variations on So ben mi ch’a bon tempo by Orazio Vecchi (1550-1605), arr. Vittoria Rieti (1898-1994)
Quietude by Luther Trowbridge (1892-1978)

Gail Perstein, English horn & Asta Vaicekonis, piano

O Come, O Come, My Dearest by Thomas Arne (1710-1778)
If music be the food of love by Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
“O sleep, why dost thou leave me?” from Semele by G.F. Handel (1685-1759)
“So shall the lute and harp awake” from Judas Maccabaeus (HWV 63)by G.F. Handel

Beth Ann Bonnecroy, soprano & Asta Vaicekonis, piano

Ballade voor Althobo en Piano Op. 90 (1981) by  Jan Koetsier (1911-2006)
Fantasia per Corno Inglese e Pianoforte by Antonio Pasculli (1842-1924) Amelia – Un pensiero del Ballo in maschera by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Gail Perstein, English horn & Asta Vaicekonis, piano

My Life’s Delight by Roger Quilter (1877-1953), poem by Thomas Campion
Do not go, my love by Richard Hageman (1881-1966), poem by Rabindranath Tagore
Sleep   (poem by John Fletcher) by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
i carry your heart by John Duke (1899-1984), poem by e.e. cummings
Love’s Philosophy by Roger Quilter, text by Percy Shelle

Beth Ann Bonnecroy, soprano & Asta Vaicekonis, piano

 

Art of Piano: Style Innovators

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Chopin: His innovations in style, musical form, and harmony, and his association of music with nationalism, were influential throughout and after the late Romantic period.

Goyescas: Los majos enamorados (The Gallants in Love), Op. 11 by Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Quejas, o La Maja y el ruiseñor (Laments or The Maja and the Nightingale)
Etude Op.25, No. 9 in Gb Major by Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Etude Op.25, No.12 in C Minor

Geisa Dutra, piano

Claire de Lune Minuet by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
The Girl with the Flaxen Hair by Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Pavane for a Dead Princess by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Karin McCullough, piano

Twelve Polonaises     Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710-1784)
   No. 3 in D Major
   No. 2 in C Minor

Nocturne in C Minor Op. 48, No. 1                         Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)Intermezzo                                                             Manuel Ponce (1882-1948)

Lisa Lanza, piano

Sonnetto 104 de Petrarca, S. 158, No. 1 (“I find no peace”) by Franz Liszt (1811-1866)
Grande Waltz Op. 42, in A flat Major by Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

Maria Khavin, piano

Polonaise Fantasie, Op. 61 by Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

Nicole Kim, piano

Today’s program was designed to complement the SAM exhibit “Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style”

Italian songs of love and loss and piano music by Bach, Chopin and Prokofiev

French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV 816 by J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

“Waldstein” Sonata, First movement by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Prelude, Op. 25, No. 4 by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

Nicole Kim, piano

Italian songs of love and lossItalian proverb

Sento nel core (I feel in my heart) by Stefano Donaudy (1879-1925)

Star vicino (To stay near) by Salvator Rosa (1615-1673)

L’invito (The invitation) by Giaocchino Rossini (1792-1868)

Eterno amore e fè (Eternal love and faithfulness) by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

Perchè dolce, caro bene stizozosetta sei con me? (Why dear sweet beloved, are you peevish with me?) by Stefano Donaudy (1879-1925)

Perduta ho la pace (I have lost my peace) by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Lu trademiento (The treachery) by Gaetano Donizetti

O del mio amato ben perduto incanto (o lost enchantment of my dearly beloved)  by Stefano Donaudy (1879-1925)

Stornello/Tu dici che non m’ami (Rhyme/You say that you don’t love me) by Giuseppe Verdi

Regina Thomas, soprano & Johanna Mastenbrook, piano

Music by Bellini and Chopin

Works by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)bellini-capuleti

L’abbandono (Romanza) (The abandonment)
Malinconia, Ninfa gentile (Melancholy gentle nymph)
Vanne, o rosa fortunate (Go, fortunate rose)

“Eccomi . . . O quante volte,” (Here I am… o how many times) from I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Almen, se non poss’io seguir l’amato bene (At least if I am not able to follow my beloved)
Per pietà, bell’idol mio (Have pity, my dearest one)
Ma rendi pur contento (Only make her happy)

Emily Riesser, soprano & Lucy Wenger, piano

Works by Frederick Chopin (1810-1849)

Nocturne in F-sharp major, op.15, no.2
Nocturne in C-sharp minor, op.27, no.1
Nocturne in D-flat major, op.27, no.2
Ballade no.4 in F-minor, op.52

Valentina Rodov, piano