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The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach

Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten (The Wedding Cantata) by JS Bach

  1. Aria: Weichet nur, betrubte Schatten (Only soft, sorrowful shadows)
  2. Recitative: Die Welt wird wieder neu (The world will be new again)
  3. Aria: Phoebus eilt mit schnellen Pferden (Phoebus hurries with fast horses)
  4. Recitative: Drum sucht auch Amor sein Vergnugen
  5. Aria: Wenn die Fruhlingslufte streichen (So love also seeks his pleasure)
  6. Recitative: Und dieses ist das Glucke (And this is happiness)
  7. Aria: Sich uben im Lieben, in Scherzen sich herzen (Being in love, to jest and carress)
  8. Recitative: So sei das Band der keuschen Liebe (So may the union of love)
  9. Gavotte: Sehet in Zufriedenheit tausend helle Wohlfahrstage (See in contentment a thousand bright and prosperous days)

Emily Riesser, soprano
Jill Carlsen, recorder
Candice Chin and Ann Rackl, violins
Carolyn Wyman, viola
Chris Worswick (guest artist), cello

The Goldberg Variations, selections

Karin McCullough, piano

Violin Sonata No. 1 in g minor (Adagio and Andante movements), BWV 1001

Candice Chin, violin and Karin McCullough, piano

Trio sonata in G Major, BWV 1038

Kris Palmer, flute
Candice Chin, violin
Karin McCullough, piano

Beethoven violin sonata and Duets and solos for Clarinet

Piano and Violin Sonata in F op. 24 (“Spring”) by Beethoven

Ann Rackl, violin and Selina Chu, piano

Sonatina for Clarinet Solo “Tema con variazioni,” Movement No. 1 by Miklós Rózsa

Katie Beisel Hollenbach, clarinet

Duo No. 1 by Fritz Kroepsch

Humoreske by Anton Dvorak

Julie Shankland and Katie Beisel Hollenbach, clarinets

Songs by Obradors, Italian and French Opera, and Korean composers for soprano and mezzo-soprano

Canciones clasicas espanolas  (Classical Spanish songs) by Fernando J. Obradors (1897-1945)
La mi sola, Laureola (My only, Laureola)
Al amor (To the beloved)
Corazon, porque pasais? (Heart, why do you keep awake?)
El majo celoso (The jealous lad)
“Con amores, la mi madre” (With love, mother) from Dos cantares populares
“Del cabello mas sutil” (Of the softest hair) from Dos cantares populares
Chiquitata la Novia (Beautiful bride)

Ki-Jung Jun, soprano and Joan Lundquist, piano

“Ombra mai fu di vegetabile” (Never was the shade of any plant) from Serse by G. F. Handel
“O mio Fernando” (O my Fernando)  from La Favorita by Gaetano Donizetti
“Quel guardo il cavaliero” from Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti

Ki-Jung Jun, soprano and YeonSoo Lee, mezzo-soprano
Joan Lundquist, piano

“Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta voix” (My heart opens itself to your voice) from Samson and Dalilah by Camille Saint-Saëns
“Belle nuit, o nuit d’amour” (Beautiful night, o night of love) from Les Contes d’Hoffman by Jacques Offenbach

Ki-Jung Jun, soprano and YeonSoo Lee, mezzo-soprano
Joan Lundquist, piano

Singing Cosmos by Heung-yeoul Lee (1909-1980)
As spring comes across the river by Keungsoo Im
In the flower clouds by Heung-yeoul Lee

Ki-Jung Jun, soprano
Joan Lundquist, piano

Gone Are The Old Times(옛날은 가고 없어도)  by Lee, Ho-Seop (b. 1918)
The Snow (김효근 )  by HyoGeun Kim (b.1960)

YeonSoo Lee, mezzo-soprano
Joan Lundquist, piano

LMC Opera: Baroque to the Gluck reform opera

LMC Opera: Baroque to the Gluck Reform Opera

“Vi ricordi o boschi ombrosi” (Do you remember, o shady woods?) from L’Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
“Tu sei morta” (You are dead) from L’Orfeo

Orfeo ~ Darrell Jordan (guest artist), baritone

“Pur ti miro” (I adore you) from L’incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi

Poppea ~ Lisa Cardwell Pontén (guest artist), soprano and Nero ~ Katie Stevenson, mezzo-soprano

“Piante ombrose” (Shaded plants) from La Calisto by Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)

Calisto ~ Heather Mullin, Soprano

“Tu sei il cor di questo core” (You are my heart of hearts) from Giulio Cesare in Egitto by G. F. Handel (1685-1759)

“Son nata lagrimar” (I was born to weep) from Giulio Cesare in Egitto

Achilla ~ Darrell Jordan, baritone     Cornelia ~ Brittany Walker, mezzo-soprano    Sesto ~ Katie Stevenson, mezzo-soprano

“Lascia ch’io pianga” from Rinaldo by G.F. Handel

Katie Stevenson as Almirena

“Lo conosco” (I know it) from La Serva Padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)

Serpina ~ Heather Mullin, soprano     Uberto ~ Darrell Jordan, baritone

“Ombra mai fu” from Serse by G. F. Handel

Serse ~ Brittany Walker (guest artist), mezzo-soprano

“Che fiero momento” from Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)

Euridice ~ Lisa Cardwell Pontén (guest artist) soprano    Orfeo ~ Katie Stevenson, mezzo-soprano

“O malheureuse, Iphigenie” from Iphigenie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck

Iphigenie ~ Heather Mullin, soprano

Lucy Wenger ~ piano
Stage Direction and commentary ~ Janene Nelson

Schubert’s Frauenliebe und -leben and oboe/English horn duets by Beethoven and Shapiro

Monologue 2 for oboe by Erland von Koch (1910 – 2009)

I. Andante sostenuto

II. Allegro molto vivace

Re:pair – duet for oboe and English horn by Alex Shapiro (b. 1962)

Sharon Jung, oboe and Gail Perstein, oboe and English horn

Robert Schumman (Photo Credit: Adolph von Menzel [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)
Frauenliebe und -leben (Woman’s love and life) by Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

  1. Seit ich ihn gesehen
  2. Er, der Herrlichste von allen
  3. Ich kann’s nicht fassen
  4. Du Ring an meinem Finger
  5. Helft mir, ihr Schwestern
  6. Süsser Freund, du blickest
  7. An meinem Herzen
  8. Nun hast du mir der ersten Schmerz getan

Lin Chen, soprano and Nicole Truesdell, piano

Sonata for oboe and English horn by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
Transcribed by Alan Hawkins

  1. Allegro
  2. Andantino con moto, theme and variations
  3. Allegro assai

Sharon Jung, oboe and Gail Perstein, English horn