LMC Opera: Mozart Masterpieces

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by W.A. Mozart, select scenes

No. 1 Zu Hilfe! zu Hilfe! sonst bin ich verloren (Help, Help oh I am lost!)
No. 2 Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja (The birdcatcher I am indeed)
No. 3 “Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön”  (This likeness is enchantingly lovely)

Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart, select scenes

“Deh vieni alla finestra” (come to the window)
“La ci darem la mano” (take my hand)
“Deh, fuggi il traditor” (flee from the treacherous one)

Così fan tutte (Women are like that), select scenes

From Act I
No. 2 “Al fato dan legge quegli occhi” (To fate he leaves in those eyes)
No. 4 “Ah, guarda sorella” (Ah, look sister)
No. 11 “Ah, scostati…Smanie implacabili” (Ah, leave me….Implacable restlessness)
No. 14 “Temerari…Come scoglio” (Audacious ones…Like a rock)
From Act II
No. 23 “Il core vi dono” (My heart I give you)
No. 24 “Ah lo veggio quell’anima bella” (Ah I see that beautiful soul)
Finale

Meg Daly and Emily Riesser, sopranos
Jesse Nordstrom (guest artist), tenor
Darrell J. Jordan (guest artist), baritone
Joan Lundquist, piano
Regina Thomas, stage direction and commentary

Copland’s Poems of Emily Dickinson, Late/Post Romantic piano music

Emily Dickinson (Born on December 10, 1830)

Poems by Emily Dickinson, Settings by Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

1. Nature, the Gentlest Mother
3. Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?
4. The World Feels Dusty
5. Heart, We Will Forget Him
6. Dear March, Come In!
7. Sleep is Supposed to Be
8. When They Come Back
9. I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
10. I’ve Heard an Organ Talk Sometimes
11. Going to Heaven!
12. The chariot

Lin Chen, soprano
Lucy Wenger, piano

Prelude from Suite Bergamasque (1890-1905) by Claude Debussy
Reverie (1890) by Debussy

Preludes, Opus 11 (1888) by Alexander Scriabin
No. 1 in C Major (Ondeggiante Carezzando)
No. 2 in a minor (Allegretto)
No. 4 in e minor (Lento)
Etude in C sharp minor (Andante), Op. 2, No. 1 (1887) by Scriabin

Piano Pieces, Op. 118 (1893) by Johannes Brahms
No. 1: Intermezzo (Allegro non assai, ma molto appassionato)
No. 2: Intermezzo (Andante teneramente)
No. 5: Romance (Andante

Karin McCullough, piano

Oboe duets by George, Goddard & Sellner, Songs from American & British Musical Theater

Canonic Sonata #1 by Thom Ritter George (1942 -)

  1. Allegro
  2. Adagio
  3. Rondo

Canonic Sonata #4 by Thom Ritter George

  1. Allegretto
  2. Adagio cantabile
  3. Rondo

Tricks & Games by Mark Goddard (1960 -)

  1. Trumpet Prelude
  2. Chinese Chequers
  3. Follow my Leader
  4. Leap Frog
  5. Draughts
  6. Baboushka
  7. Cowboys
  8. Indians
  9. Hobby Horse
  10. Tin Soldiers
  11. Cat’s Cradle
  12. Rag Time
  13. Trumpet Postlude

Duet #10  by Joseph Sellner (1787 – 1843)

  1. Allegro Agitato
  2. Adagio
  3. Rondo. Allegro

Sharon Jung and Gail Perstein, oboes

“The Sun whose rays are all ablaze” from the Mikado by Gilbert (1836-1911) and Sullivan (1842-1900)
“Once Upon A Dream” from Jekyll & Hyde by Frank Wildhorn (b. 1959)
“Loving You” from Passion by Stephen Sondheim (b. 1954)
“How Could I ever Know” from the Secret Garden by Lucy Simon (b. 1943) and Marsha Norman (b. 1947)
“Is this Home?” from Beauty and The Beast by Tim Rice (b. 1944) and Alan Menken (b. 1949)
“Tell Me on a Sunday” from Tell Me on a Sunday by Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948)
“Till I Hear You Sing”  from Love Never Dies by Andrew Lloyd Webber
“Love Never Dies” from Love Never Dies by Andrew Lloyd Webber

Lin Chen, soprano and Nicole Truesdell, piano

The Human Voice by Poulenc

The Human Voice (La Voix Humaine)

Opera in One Act, presented in English

Based on the play by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

Music by Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

 

a forty-minute, one-act opera
Arranged for soprano and piano

Synopsis: a woman’s last conversation with the lover who has left her for another.

Emily Riesser, soprano
Joan Lundquist, piano

Baroque piano music, music for viola and piano by Faure, Carter & Glazunov

1685 was a very good year

Grieg’s Holberg Suite (Prelude) written to commemorate the birth in 1685 of famous Danish playwright Holberg
Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti
Italian Concerto by JS Bach

Karin McCullough, piano

Clair de Lune by Gabriel Faure
Elegy Op. 24 by Gabriel Faure
Elegy by Elliott Carter
Waltz Op. 42 No. 3 by Aleksandr Glazunov
Elegy Op. 44 by Aleksandr Glazunov

Grace Huang, piano
Yi Zhou, viola