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LMC Opera – Handel and Mozart: Founding Fathers of Opera

Handel and Mozart: Founding Fathers of Opera

George Frideric Handel (1685–1789)
“Piangero la sorte mia” from Giulio Cesare in Egitto (“Julius Caesar in Egypt”), HWV 17
“Son nata a lagrimar” from Giulio Cesare in Egitto (“Julius Caesar in Egypt”), HWV 17
“Ho perduto il caro sposo” from Rodelinda, HWV 19
“Ombra mai fu” (Largo) from Serse (“Xerxes”), HWV 40
“Heart, the seat of soft delight” from Acis and Galatea, HWV 49

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
“Via resti servita” from Le nozze di Figaro (“The Marriage of Figaro”), K. 492
“Hai gia vinta la causa” from Le Nozze di Figaro (“The Marriage of Figaro”), K. 492
“Batti, batti o bel Masetto” from Don Giovanni, K. 527
“Deh, vieni alla finestra” from Don Giovanni, K. 527
“In uomini in Soldati” from Cosi fan tutte, K. 588
“Soave sia il vento” from Cosi fan tutte, K. 588

Emily Riesser, Dhanushi Wijeyakulasuriya, and Katie Hochman, sopranos
Regina Thomas and Ute Freund, mezzo-sopranos
Colin Ward, baritone
Sharon Wong, piano

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Songs from a Midwinter’s Heart

Songs from a Midwinter’s Heart

“Largo” from Xerxes by George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Arr. Theo. Moses-Tobani, Edited by Marion Feldman

“In the Bleak Midwinter” by Gustav Holst (1874–1934)
Arr. Marshall McDonald, Housley/Whinston

“Once Upon a December,” from Anastasia by Lynn Ahrens (b. 1948) and Stephen Flaherty (b. 1960)
Arr. Piano Go Life, Housley/Whinston

“On Wings of Song” Op. 34, No. 2 (arr. for cello and piano) by Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)

“Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring” by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Arr. Craig Duncan

“Walking in the Air” from The Snowman by Howard Blake (b. 1938)
Arr. Paul Hankinson

“Winter in the Air” by David Archuleta (b. 1990)
Arr. Heidi Albrecht

“What Child Is This?” – traditional English folk song
Arr. Eric L. Carlson

“He Shall Feed His Flock” from The Messiah by George Frideric Handel
Arr. Craig Duncan

“Ave Maria” by Franz Schubert (1797–1828)

Melet Whinston, cello
Michael Housley, piano

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Russian & Austrian Art Songs | Piano Works by Bach & Schumann

Russian and Austrian Art Songs

The Statue at Tsarskoye-Selo by Cesar Cui (1835–1918)

Sumerki (“Twilight”) Op. 21, No. 3 by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)

Sred shumnovo bala (“Amid the din of the ball”) Op. 38, No. 3 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)

Smert’ (“Death”) Op. 57, No. 5 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

In dem Schatten meiner Locken (“In the Shadow of my Tresses”) by Hugo Wolf (1860–1903)

Kennst du das Land (“Do you know the land where the lemons blossom”) by Hugo Wolf

Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt (“Only he who knows yearning”) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Susan Strick, soprano
Joan Lundquist, piano

Piano Works by Bach & Schumann

Prelude & Fugue No. 14 in F-sharp Minor, BWV 883, from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II, by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Faschingsschwank aus Wien (“Carnival Jest from Vienna”), Op. 26 by Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
1. Allegro (B-flat major)
2. Romanze (G minor)
3. Scherzino (B-flat major)
4. Intermezzo (E-flat minor)
5. Finale (B-flat major)

Diana Gao, piano

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Music for Flute, Viola, and Harp

Music for Flute, Viola, and Harp

Terzettino by Théodore Dubois (1837–1924)

Selections from Siete canciones populares españolas (“Seven Spanish Folksongs”) by Manuel de Falla (1876–1946)
1. El paño moruno (“The Moorish cloth”)
3. Asturiana (“Asturian song”)
5. Nana (“lullaby”)
6. Canción (“song”)

Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp by Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
1. Pastorale
2. Interlude
3. Final

Duo I in C minor by François Devienne (1759–1803)
1. Allegro molto con espressione
2. Rondo

Submerged (Sumergida) Op. 108 by Miguel del Águila (b. 1957)

Joanna Goldstein, flute
Christine Bastian, viola
Kelly Hou (guest artist), harp

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Romantic Music for Bassoon and Piano

Bassoon Music by Ravel, Schumann, and Mignone

Piece en forme de Habanera, for bassoon and piano by Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)

Three Romances, Op. 94, for bassoon and piano by Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
1. Nicht schnell
2. Einfach, innig
3. Nicht schnell

Valse, for unaccompanied bassoon by Francisco Mignone (1897–1986)

Brittany Harrington, bassoon
Sophia Chou, piano

Solo Piano Works by Schumann

From Kinderszenen (“Scenes from Childhood”), Op. 15
1. Von fremden Ländern und Menschen (“Of Foreign Lands and Peoples”)
2. Kuriose Geschichte (“A Curious Story”)
3. Hasche-Mann (“Blind Man’s Buff”)
4. Bittendes Kind (“Pleading Child”)
5. Glückes genug (“Happy Enough”)
6. Wichtige Begebenheit (“An Important Event”)
7. Träumerei (“Dreaming”)

Faschingsschwank aus Wien (“Carnival Jest from Vienna”), Op. 26 by Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
1. Allegro (B-flat major)
2. Romanze (G minor)
3. Scherzino (B-flat major)
4. Intermezzo (E-flat minor)
5. Finale (B-flat major)

Diana Gao, piano

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