20th Century Sweden and Russia

Я жду тебя (Ya zhdu tebya)/I Wait for Thee op. 14 no. 1 by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
О, не грусти! (O ne grusti)/Do Not Grieve op. 14 no. 8 by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Весенние воды (Vesenniye vody)/Spring Waters op. 14 no. 11 by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Dora Barnes, soprano
Abigail Habegger, piano

Monolog No. 2 by Erland von Koch (1910-2009)
I. Andante sostenuto
II. Allegro molto vivace

Sharon Jung, oboe

Сумерки (Sumerki)/Twilight op. 21 no. 3 by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Сирень (Siren’ )/Lilacs op. 21 no. 5 by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Отрывок из А. Мюссе (Otryvok iz A. Myusse)/Fragment from A. Musset op. 21 no. 6 by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Dora Barnes, soprano
Abigail Habegger, piano

Music from Brazil and Argentina

Aria (Cantilena) from Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)

Three Brazilian Songs Arranged for voice and guitar by Laurindo Almeida (1917-1995)

Julie Finch-Robé & Rolf Robé
  1. Para Ninhar (Lullaby)
  2. Azulão (Blue)
  3. Tindo-Lá-Lá (My Lemon Tree)

Julie Finch-Robé , soprano
Rolf Robé, guitar

Brazilian song translations

 

Danza de la Moza Donosa (Dance of the Graceful Girl) from Danzas Argentinas by Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)

Karin McCullough, piano

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Art of Piano: Salon Music Masterpieces, 1893-1930

Intermezzo in A Major Op 118, #2 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Karin McCullough, piano

Pour le piano (For the piano), L. 95 by Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

  1. Prélude
  2. Sarabande

Molly Knight-Forde, piano

De Julho (July) by Ernesto Nazareth (1863 – 1934)

A Fonte do Suspiro (The Fountain of Sighs) by Ernesto Nazareth

Barbara Gulbran, piano

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Britannia, the Second

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Shakespeare Songs, Op. 23 by Roger Quilter (1877-1953)

Mike Dodaro, baritone and Joan Lundquist, piano

Metamorphoses after Ovid by Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)

Each of the six sections is based on a character from Roman mythology who is briefly described:

  1. Pan, “who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved.”
  2. Phaeton, “who rode upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a thunderbolt.”
  3. Niobe, “who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain.”will
  4. Bacchus, “at whose feasts is heard the noise of gaggling women’s tattling tongues and shouting out of boys.”
  5. Narcissus by Caravaggio

    Narcissus, “who fell in love with his own image and became a flower.”

  6. Arethusa, “who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into a fountain.”

Sharon Jung, oboe

Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, descriptions of movements

Take, oh take those lips away, Shakespeare Songs, Op. 23 by Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
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Mike Dodaro, baritone and Joan Lundquist, piano

Silent Noon, IRV 25, No. 2 from The House of Life, A Cycle of Six Sonnets by Ralph Vaughan Williams  (1872-1958)
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Regina Thomas, soprano and Joan Lundquist, piano

Heigh ho, the wind and the Rain, Shakespeare Songs, Op. 23 by Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
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Mike Dodaro, baritone and Joan Lundquist, piano

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