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Music from Spain and South America

Flamenco dancerCinco canciones negras (Five black songs)by Xavier Montsalvatge (1912-2002)

  1. Cancion de Cuna para dormer un negrito (Lullaby)
  2. Canto Negro

Lesley Chapin, soprano & Carol Hartoon, piano

Poema en forma de canciones, Op.19 by Joaquín Turina (1882-1949)

  1. Dedicatoria (Dedication)
  2. Nunca olvida (You never forget)
  3. Cantares (Songs)
  4. Los dos miedos (Two fears)
  5. Las locas por amor (Crazy for love)

Gwen Trussler, mezzo-soprano     Lucy Wenger, piano

Ferramenta by Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934)

Odéon

Lucy Wenger, piano

Cuatro Madrigales Amatorios by Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)

  1. Con qué la lavaré?
  2. Vos me matásteis
  3. De dónde venís, amore?
  4. De los alamos vengo, madre

Meg Daly, soprano     Jennifer Li, piano

Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (Four Season of Buenos Aires) by Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

  1. Otoño Porteño (Buenos Aires Autumn)
  2. Invierno Porteño (Buenos Aires Winter)
  3. Primavera Porteña (Buenos Aires Spring)
  4. Verano Porteño (Buenos Aires Summer)

Oblivion by Astor Piazzolla

Candice Chin, violin     Terry Cook, cello     Johanna Mastenbrook, piano

French and British Songs and Duets of the Late Romantic Period

There is a garden in her face by John Ireland (1879-1962)

Katie Hochman, soprano     Catherine Treadgold, mezzo soprano

Come to me in my dreams by Frank Bridge (1879-1941)
Love went a-riding

Katie Hochman, soprano

Full fathom five by  John Ireland
You spotted snakes by Frederick Keel (1871-1954)
It was a lover by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Katie Hochman, soprano     Catherine Treadgold, mezzo soprano

Chevaux de bois (Horses of wood) by Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
La Mer est plus belle (The sea is more beautiful)

Catherine Treadgold, mezzo soprano

Puisqu’ici-bas toute âme (As each soul here below) by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Les trois oiseaux (The three birds) by Leo Delibes (1836-1891)
Au bord de l’eau (Au bord de l’eau) by Émile Paladilhe (1844-1926)

Katie Hochman, soprano     Catherine Treadgold, mezzo soprano

Les trios Chanson (The three song) by Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937)
Mimi Pinson

Katie Hochman, soprano

Joie! (Joy) by Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
Marine (The sea)

Katie Hochman, soprano    Catherine Treadgold, mezzo soprano

Summer schemes by John Ireland
Great things

Catherine Treadgold, mezzo soprano

La Nuit (The night) Op 11, no.1                           Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)
Réveil (The awakening) Op 11, no.2

Katie Hochman, soprano    Catherine Treadgold, mezzo soprano
Joan Lundquist, piano

Music of Korngold and Mahler

Four pieces from the incidental music to Shakespeare’s Much ado about nothing, Op. 11 by Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)

Arranged for violin and piano by the composer

  1. Madchen im Brautgemach (The maiden in the Bridechamber)
  2. Holzapfel und Schlehen/Marsch der Wache (Dogberry and Verges/March of the Watch)
  3. Gartenscene (Garden scene)
  4. Mummenschanz (Masquerade)

Adrianna Hulscher, violin & Karin McCullough, piano

Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) music Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), poems by Friedrich Rückert. (1788-1866)

  1. “Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgeh’n” (Now the sun wants to rise as brightly)mother and child
  2. “Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen” (Now I see well, why with such dark flames)
  3. “Wenn dein Mütterlein” (When your mama steps in through the door)
  4. “Oft denk’ ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen” (I often think: they have only just gone out)
  5. “In diesem Wetter” (In this weather)

Kathryn Vinson, mezzo-soprano & Nola Allen, piano

Music of Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)

Heitor Villa-Lobos c. 1922
Heitor Villa-Lobos (c. 1922)

Five Preludes, W. 419 by Heitor Villa-Lobos (composition year: 1940)

  1. Andantino expressivo in E minor
  2. Andantino in E major
  3. Andante in A minor
  4. Lento in E minor
  5. Poco animato in D major

Hilary Field, guitar

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4, W 264 by Heitor Villa-Lobos (composed 1930-41)

Lucy Wenger, piano

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 W 391 by Heitor Villa-Lobos (composed 1938), arr. Hilary Field

  1. Ária (Cantilena, A minor)

Joyce Allison, soprano & Hilary Field, guitar
Paige Smith, cello (guest artist) & Lucy Wenger, piano

Celebrating Song and Dance

Danza Danza by Francesco Durante (1685-1755)
Let Us Dance, Let Us Sing by Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
“Hark, the echoing air” from The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell
If Music Be the Food of Love by Henry Purcell
“Và godendo”(Go pleasure) from Serse by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
“Come and Trip It” from L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55 by G. F. Handel

Joyce Allison, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano

Allemande from French Suite in G major by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Gigue by J.S. Bach

Lucy Wenger, piano

Claire de lune  (Moonlight) by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Mandoline by Gabriel Fauré

Joyce Allison, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano

Mazurka in B flat major Op 7 #1 by Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Waltz in C sharp minor Op. 64 #2 by Frédéric Chopin
Waltz in A flat major by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Lucy Wenger, piano

Serenade by Charles Gounod (1818-1893)

Joyce Allison, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano

Odeon (Tango) by Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934)
Ferranmenta (Tango) by Ernesto Nazareth

Lucy Wenger, piano

A cantar a una nina (To sing to a doll) by Latin American Folk song, Arr. by Bruce Trinkley
El tra la la y el punteado (The tra la la and the picking) by Enrique Granados

Joyce Allison, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano

Danza Triste by Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Zambra by Enrique Granados

Lucy Wenger, piano

Blah blah blah by George Gershwin (1898-1937)
By Strauss by George Gershwin

Joyce Allison, soprano and Lucy Wenger, piano