Deità Silvane by Respighi, Cello music by Beethoven and Schumann

Deità Silvane (Woodland Deities) by Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)

  1. I Fauni (The fauns)
  2. Musica in horto (Garden music)
  3. Egle (Aegle*)
  4. Acqua (Water)
  5. Crepuscolo (Twilight)

*From Greek mythology: Daughter of the Sun

Lesley Chapin Wyckoff, soprano and Carol Hartoon, piano

Music for cello and piano

Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 5, No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Adagio Sostenuto/Allegro Molto

Fantasiestücke by Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Erika Pierson, cello
Annie Center, piano

Brahms piano trio no 2, selections, The merry month of May, songs for soprano

Piano Trio No. 2, B major, Op 8 by Johannes Brahms
III. Adagio non troppo — Allegro — Tempo primo
I. Allegro con moto — Tempo un poco più Moderato — Schnell

Ann Rackl, violin
Lawrence Chu, (guest artist) cello
Selina Chu, piano

Einem Bach, der fließt/Holde Frühlingszeit (A brook that flows/Lovely springtime) by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), text: L. Hensel
Wiegenlied (Cradle song) by  Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747-1800), text: Friederike Brun (1765-1835)
Frühlingslied (Spring song) by Franz Schubert (1797-1828), text: Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty (1748-1776)
Erstes Grün (First Green) by Robert Schumann (1810-1856), text: Justinus Kerner (1786-1862)
Frühlingsnacht (Spring night) by Robert Schumann (1810-1856), text: Joseph v. Eichendorff (1788-1857)
Jasminenstrauch ( Jasmine ) by Robert Schumann (1810-1856), text: Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866)
Die Stille (The quiet woman) by Robert Schumann (1810-1856), text: Joseph v. Eichendorff (1788-1857)
Liebst Du um Schönheit (If you love for beauty) by  Clara Schumann (1819-1896), text: Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866)
Sie liebten sich beide (They loved each other) by Clara Schumann (1819-1896), text: Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
Das Veilchen ( The violet) by Clara Schumann (1819-1896), text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Draußen in Sievering from Die Tänzerin Fanny Elßler (Out in Sievering from Fanny Eissler, the dancer) by Johann Strauß (1825-1899)/Oskar Stalla, text: Hans Adler (1880-1957)

Christine Menschner, soprano and Joan Lundquist, piano

Piano solos by Debussy and Rachmaninoff, Songs of Love and Romance

“Clair de Lune” from Suite Bergamasque by Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918)
Sonata no.2 in B flat minor, Opus 36 (1931 version) by  Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943)
I. Allegro agitato – meno mosso
II. Non allegro – lento – piu mosso
III. Allegro molto – poco meno mosso – presto

Joyce Gibb, piano

Songs of Love and Romance
“O del mio dolce ardor” by Christoph Willibard Gluck 1714-1784
“Meine liebe ist grün” by Johannes Brahms 1833-1897
“Von ewiger liebe”  by Johannes Brahms 1833-1897
“Liebst du um schoenheit” by Gustav Mahler 1860-1911
“Love went a riding” by Frank Bridge 1879-1941
“Heart, we will forget him” by Aaron Copland 1900-1908
“Du ar min Afrodite” by Gunnar de Frumerie 1908-1987
“When my soul touches yours” by Leonard Bernstein 1918-1990
“Tell me the truth about love” by Benjamin Britten 1913-1976

Amber Rose Johnson, soprano
Joan Lundquist, piano

Music for violin and piano by Kulesha, Elsner and Hindemith

Dance by Gary Kulesha (b. 1954)

Sonata for Violin and Piano in F Minor, Op. 10 No. 1 by Jozef Elsner (1769-1854)
I. Allegro
II. Andante
III. Rondo Allegretto

Sonata for Violin and Piano by Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
I. Lebhaft
II. Langsam
III. Ruhig Bewegt

Angie Kam, violin and Katie O’Rourke, piano

Flute, oboe, bassoon trios by Cambini and Telemann, Barber’s Despite and Still

Trio op. 45 Nr. 1 by Giuseppe Maria Cambini (1746-1825)
1. Allegro maestoso
2. Rondo, Allegretto bruioso

Triosonate in E minor by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
Affettuoso
Allegro
Grave
Allegro

Madeline Beery, flute
Rosemary Bell, oboe
Peter Klein (guest artist), bassoon

Despite and Still, Opus 41 by Samuel Barber  (1910 – 1981)

  1. A Last Song (Robert Graves)
  2. My Lizard (Theodore Roethke)
  3. In the Wilderness (Robert Graves)
  4. Solitary Hotel (James Joyce, Ulysses)
  5. Despite and Still (Robert Graves)

“A Simple Song” from Mass by Leonard Bernstein

“One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Man”  from Wonderful Town (Betty Comden/Adolph Green) (1918 – 1990)

Dawn Padula, mezzo-soprano
Joan Lundquist, piano