Polyhymnia Programs Since 2008
January 2017
English Renaissance Songs John Dowland (1563-1626)
Come Again! Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
Come Away, Sweet Love
Come, Heavy Sleep
Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
Four Motets on Gregorian Themes Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Ubi Caritas
Tota Pulchra Es
Tu Es Petrus
Tantum Ergo
Intermission
Music of the Synagogue
Barechu Salomone Rossi (ca. 1570-1630)
Elohim Hashivenu
Keter
Yihyu Lerozon Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
(Karen Rothschild, Soprano)
May The Words Of My Mouth Joshua Fishbein (born 1984)
French Choruses from The Lark Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Spring Song
(Rebecca Berman, Alto)
Court Song
(Heidi Boas and Shirley Fan, Sopranos)
Soldier’s Song
June 2016
Italian Madrigals
Dissi a l'amata mia lucida stella Luca Marenzio
Candido leggiadretto e caro guanto (1553-99)
Zefiro torna e'l bel tempo rimena
Nuova angioletta sovra l'ale accorte
Living Composers
Alleluia Eric Whitacre
(Born 1970)
Diana Garibaldi, soprano solo
Tom Kostelecky, tenor solo
With a Lily in Your Hand
Solfeggio Arvo Part
(Born 1935)
Nunc Dimittis
Karen Rothschild, soprano solo
German Part-Songs
Der Sänger, Op. 145, No. 3 Robert Schumann
Der Schmidt, Op. 145, No. 1 (1810-56)
John Anderson, Op. 67, No. 5
Zahnweh, Op. 55, No. 2
Gute Nacht, Op. 59, No. 4
Shirley Fan, soprano solo
Three Shakespeare Settings
O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming? Emma Lou Diemer
Take, O Take Those Lips Away (Born 1927)
Sigh No More, Ladies, Sigh No More
January 2016
Four French Chansons
Tant que vivrai Claudin de Sermisy
Au joli bois (1490 – 1562)
Nous voyons que les hommes Guillaume Costeley
Quand le berger vit la bergère (1530 – 1606)
Four Madrigals by Sir Thomas Wyatt Thea Musgrave
(Born 1928)
With serving still
Tanglid I was in Love’s snare,
At most mischief
Hate whom ye list
Choral dances from Gloriana (1954) Benjamin Britten
(1913 – 1976)
1. Time
2. Concord “Concord is here”
3. Time and Concord “From springs of bounty”
4. Country girls
5. Rustics and fishermen
6. Final dance of homage
From Six Choral Folk Songs Op. 36b (1916) Gustav Holst
(1874 - 1934)
There was a Tree
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
The Song of the Blacksmith
Swansea Town
June 2015
Settings of Robert Herrick
Charm Me Asleep (1903) John Blackwood McEwen
(1868 - 1948)
Cupid, Op. 7, No. 1 (c. 1905) Roger Quilter
(1877 - 1953)
To Daffodils (1906) Harold Darke
(1888 - 1976)
To Music (1920) Sir George Dyson
(1883 - 1964)
Two Motets
Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren, BWV 231 J.S. Bach
(1685 - 1750)
Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, Op. 29, No. 1 Johannes Brahms
(1833 - 1897)
Iberian Villancicos
Es nascido Pedro de Cristo
(c. 1545 - 1618)
Nino dios d'amor herido Francesco Guerrero
(1528 - 1599)
Marking the Close of the Civil War Sesquicentennial
The Mask of Cain Robert Evett
The Portent (1922 - 1975)
Youth is a Time When Hearts are Large
Shiloh
Musical Riddles
Riddle Me This William Bergsma
The Snow (1921 - 1994)
The Egg
The Cow
January 2015
Selections from Chansons Françaises Francis Poulenc
(1899 - 1963)
Margoton va t'a l'iau
La belle se sied au pied de la tour
Pilons l'orge
Ah! Mon beau laboureur
Les tisserands
Ukvalské písně (Hukvaldy Songs) Leoš Janáček
(1854-1928)
Ondraš, Ondraš!
Ty ukvalsky kosteličku!
Na tych fojtovych łukach
Ty ukvalsky kosteličku, hej!
Pan Buh vam zapłať!
Fojtova Hanka
De profundis clamavi Josquin Des Prez (c.1450 - 1521)
Hear the Voice and Prayer Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 –1585)
Quam pulchri sunt Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525 –1594)
Pueri Hebraeorum Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1549 - 1611)
A Hymn to Christ Steven Beck (b. 1953)
Coney Island Rich Campbell (b. 1957)
Geographical Fugue Ernst Toch (1887-1964)
June 2014
Nun fanget an Hans Leo Hassler
(1564-1612)
Three Eastern Liturgical Settings
Ave Maria Igor Stravinsky
(1882-1971)
Bogoroditse Dyevo Arvo Pärt
(Born 1935)
Bogoroditze Dievo, Op. 27 No. 6 Sergei Rachmaninoff
(1873-1943)
Music from Latin America
Dios Itlazonantzine Anonymous
Sancta Mariae in ilhuicac (circa 1580)
Nonantsin Carlos Chavez
A Woman is a Worthy Thing (1899-1978)
Three British Part-songs
Quick, We Have But a Second C.V. Stanford
(1852-1924)
This Have I Done for My True Love, Op. 34, No. 1 Gustav Holst
Bring us in Good Ale (1874-1934)
Celebrating Shakespeare’s 450th Anniversary
Four Shakespeare Songs Knud Jeppesen
(1892-1974)
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Winter
Spring
Under the Greenwood Tree
Two Shakespeare Songs Matthew Harris
(Born 1956)
It Was a Lover and His Lass
Sigh No More, Ladies
January 2014
Madrigals from Renaissance Italy
Bacco, Bacco Rampollini/Corteccia
(c. 1497 - c. 1553; 1502 - 1571)
Al turbar de' bei lumi Vittoria Aleotti
(ca. 1575 - after 1620)
El Grillo Josquin des Prez
(c.1440 - 1521)
German Lieder and Beyond
Der bucklichte Fiedler, Op. 93a, No. 1 Johannes Brahms
(1833 - 1897)
Im Herbst, Op. 104, No. 6
Rhapsodie, Op. 186, No. 5 Josef Rheinberger
(1839 - 1901)
Prayer for a Pilot Paul Hindemith
(1895 - 1963)
Young and Old
Philosophical Anecdotes Rick Sowash
(Born 1950)
I. The Philosopher
II. The Search
III. The Country Fair
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Music from Early America
Thus Saith the High, the Lofty One William Billings
(1746 - 1800)
Pilgrims and Puritans
Psalm 23, Low Dutch Tune Bay Psalm Book, 1698
Psalm 4, Oxford Tune
Psalm 73, York Tune
Yankee Tunesmiths
Montgomery Justin Morgan
(1747 - 1798)
Chester William Billings
Shaker tunes
A Time to Sing, A Time to Dance
Come Life, Shaker Life Issachar Bates (1758-1837)
Solo: Diana Garibaldi
Simple Gifts Joseph Brackett (1797-1892)
O Brethren, Ain’t You Happy?
Southern Harmony and The Sacred Harp
New Britain (Amazing Grace)
Promised Land
Solo Quartet: Karen Rothschild, Jeanne Morin,
Roger Reeve and Brock Hansen
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Commemorating the Centenary of the Composer’s Birth, November 22, 1913
“Old Joe Has Gone Fishing” from Peter Grimes Benjamin Britten
January 2013
Three Choruses Paul Ayres
(b 1970)
Arriston men hudor
We are anhungered
Strengthen for service
Selected Choruses Ludwig Senfl
(c 1486 – c 1542)
Elslein, liebes Elselein mein
Es taget vor dem Walde
Elslein liebes Elselein mein/Es taget vor dem Walde
Man sing, man sag
Non moriar
Quis dabit oculis nostris
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Four Choruses Frank Bridge
(1879 – 1941)
Autumn
Music, when soft voices die
O weary hearts!
The Bee
Spirituals Harry Thacker Burleigh
(1866 – 1949)
I’ve been in the storm so long
O Lord, have mercy on me
Dig my grave long and narrow
Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel?
June 2012
Jocular Trios
Punch Thomas Arne
(1710 – 1778)
The Mayfly John Wall Callcott
(1766 – 1821)
Two Lawyers Benjamin Cuzens
(late 18th Century)
Life’s a Bumper Richard Wainwright
(1757 – 1825)
Selected Choruses Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
(1848 - 1918)
Music, when soft voices die
I know my soul hath power to know all things
How sweet the answer
There rolls the deep
Come, pretty wag, and sing
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Petites Voix Francis Poulenc
(1899 – 1963)
La Petite Fille Sage
Le Chien Perdu
En Rentrant de l’École
Le Petit Garçon Malade
Le Herisson
Italian Madrigals
Erasi al sole il mio bel sole assiso Costanzo Porta
(1529 – 1601)
Di marmo siete voi Marco da Gagliano
(1582 – 1643)
Fummo felici un tempo Orazio Vecchi
(1550 – 1605)
Verament’in amore Filippo di Monte
(1521 – 1603)
Quand’io ero giovinetta Giovanni Gabrieli
(c1554 – 1612)
January 2012
Selected Choruses Josef Rheinberger
(1839 – 1901)
Willkommen
Erstes Wanderlied
Nachtgesang
Im stillen Grunde
Die Sonn is unter
Der Strom
Abendlied
Selected Choruses Darius Milhaud
(1892 - 1974)
Et le bonheur
La barque funéraire
Bois cette tasse de tenebres
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Grechesche Madrigali
Seconda apparition del cagnolo
del mese de Agosto Adrian Willaert
(1490 – 1562)
Chel bello Epithimia Giacches de Wert
(1535-1596)
Donna curtese e bella Pietro Taglia
(dates unknown)
Amur se mi tel dao Francesco Bonardo
(dates unknown)
Living British Composers
A Ship with Unfurled Sails Gabriel Jackson
Song (I gaze upon you) Gabriel Jackson
The Wine of Love Richard G. Grylls
June 2011
I. Aftonen Hugo Alfvén
(1872 – 1960)
Le Brick Darius Milhaud
(1892 – 1974)
Meine Schwester, liebe Braut Melchior Franck
(c 1579 – 1639)
II. A la mu han Shui-Long Ma
(b 1939)
Nature Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
(1895 – 1968)
Zwischen perg und tieffem tal Heinrich Isaac
(c 1450 – 1517)
III. Selig sind die Toten Heinrich Schütz
(1585 – 1672)
Соловушко (The Nighingale) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(1840 – 1893) Kállai kettős György Ligeti
(1923 – 2006)
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IV. The Brook Edward MacDowell
(1860 – 1908)
Were you there? Harry Thacker Burleigh
(1866 – 1949)
Yaa’leh Jacob Beimel
(1875-1944)
Timor et tremor Orlandus Lassus
(c 1532 – 1594)
V. O fugace, o superba Sigismondo d’India
(c 1582 – 1629)
Love bears all things Paul Moravec
(b 1957) The Greenwood Amy Beach
(1867-1944)
Salseo Oscar Galián
(b 1960)
January 2011
Double Chorus Works Michael Praetorius
(1571 - 1621)
Aus tiefer Not
Verleih uns Fried
18th-Century British Glees
In cool grot Garret Colley Wellesley
(1735 – 1781)
Take, O take those lips away James Elliott
(1783 – 1856)
Ye spotted snakes Richard John Samuel Stevens
(1757 – 1837)
The nightingale John Danby
(1757 – 1798)
Ring out, ye crystal spheres William Crotch
(1775 – 1847)
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Three Selections from Missa de requiem (1925) Henrique Oswald
(1852 – 1931)
Choruses from West and South Africa
Agoro yede (Ghana)
Aluwa sio (Benin)
Anigye aba’o (Ghana)
Kayra sillo (Mandingo – Senegal, Guinea, Mali)
Dubula (!Xhosa – South Africa)
June 2010
Two Choruses James MacMillan
(b. 1959)
To My Successor
The Gallant Weaver
Five Choruses Sergei Taneyev
(1856 - 1915)
Вeчeр (Evening)
Cocнa (The Pinetree)
Пoсмтри кaкaя мглa (Look, what a mist)
Cepeнaдa (Lullaby)
Aльпьі (The Alps)
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Royal Dilettante and His Court Composer
Pastime with good company Henry VIII
(1491 – 1547)
Ah Robin, gentle Robin William Cornish
(1465 – 1523)
Adieu Madame et ma maistresse Henry VIII
Adieu mes amours Cornish
Gentil Prince de renom Henry VIII
Selections from Indianas Carlos Guastavino
(1912 – 2000)
Gala del día
Quién fuera como el jazmín
Al tribunal de tu pecho
Viento norte
January 2010
Flemish and Dutch Renaissance Liedekin
O wrede fortune ghy doet my trueren nu Tielman Susato
(c. 1510 – c. 1570)
Janne moye, al claer! Lupus Hellinc
(c. 1493 – c. 1541)
Eylaes, eylaes, myn vreucht is al verjaegt Anonymous
Het clopten een vrouken Anonymous
Compt alle uut by twe by drye Lupus Hellinc
Een Venus schoon Clemens non Papa
(c. 1510 – c. 1556)
Transcendent Love Songs (1982) Paul Moravec
(b. 1957)
Set Me as a Seal
Love Bears All Things
The Flowers Appear on the Earth
Greater Love
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Contrasting Contemporaries: Rossini and Loewe
Toast pour le nouvel an Gioacchino Rossini
(1792 – 1868)
Im Vorubergehn Carl Loewe
(1796 – 1869)
Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein reines Herze Loewe
In der Marienkirche Loewe
Quando corpus morietur (from Stabat Mater) Rossini
Trois Chansons (1908-1910) Claude Debussy
(1796 – 1869)
Dieu! qu’il a fait bon regarder!
Quant j’ai ouy le tabourin
Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain
June 2009
13th-Century French Motets
Cil s’entremet/Nus hom/Victimae paschali Anon.
(c. 1250)
Psallat chorus/Eximie pater/Aptatur Franco of Cologne?
(c. 1250)
Pange melos lacrimosum Anon.
(c. 1200)
Hypocrite, pseudopontifices/Velut stellae/Et gaudebit Anon.
(c. 1210)
Der Abend, Op.34, Nr. 1 Richard Strauss
(1864 - 1949)
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Two Sacred Choruses Giuseppe Verdi
(1813 – 1901)
Ave Maria (on the Enigmatic scale)
Padre Nostro
Western Songs Libby Larsen
(b. 1950)
Buffalo Gals
Green Grow the Lilacs
The Ol’ Chisholm Trail
January 2009
Vinamintra Elitavi Thomas Jennefelt
(b. 1954)
Six Sacred Choruses Hugo Wolf
(Texts by Joseph von Eichendorff) (1860 - 1903)
Aufblick
Einklang
Resignation
Letzte Bitte
Ergebung
Ehrebung
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19th-Century Jewish Liturgical Music
Adon olam Wilhelm Würfel
(1791 – 1832)
Psalm 92, v. 2 – 10 Franz Schubert
(1797 – 1828)
Madrigals Sigismondo d’India
(c1582 – 1629)
Cor mio, deh non languire
Crud’Amarilli
Quasi tra rose e gigli
Filli, mirando il cielo
June 2008
Four Choruses Claude Le Jeune
(c1628 – 1600)
J’aime la pierre précieuse
Le feu, l’air, l’eau, la terre
Le beau du monde s’éfface
Revoici venir du printemps
Pastoral Choruses Gerald Finzi
(1901 - 1956)
Haste on, my joys!
I praise the tender flower
My spirit sang all day
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Folksong Settings Ralph Vaughan Williams
(1872 - 1958)
Ca’ the yowes
An acre of land
The turtledove
Just as the tide was flowing
Motets from Geistliche Chormusik 1648 Heinrich Schütz
(1585 – 1672)
Das Wort ward Fleisch
Ich bin eine rufende Stimme
Sammelt zuvor das Unkraut
Herr, auf dich traue ich
January 2008
Three Songs on Poems of Wilfred Owen Stephen Paulus
(1949 - )
Nocturne
Song of Songs
Winter Song
Sacred Motets Salamone Rossi
(1570 - 1630)
Shir hamma’alot, beshuv adonai
Odekha ki’anitani
Barukh haba beshem adonai
Haleluyah, ashrei ish yare et adonai
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Strophic Choruses Max Bruch
(1838 - 1920)
Musicaklang
Weit, weit aus ferner Zeit
Lenz, komm herbei!
Ackeley
Der Mutter Klage
Der fröhliche Musicus
Contemporary Latin American Choruses
Para peneirar Esther Scliar
(1926 - 1978)
Lua, lua, lua Esther Scliar
Salseo Oscar Galian
(1960 - )
Mata del anima sola Antonio Estévez
(1916 - 1988)
June 2004
Madrigals from Books I and III Sigismondo d’India
(c1582 - 1629)
Dove, ah dove t’en vai?
Dovrò dunque morire
Ma con chi parl’ahi, lassa?
Pur venisti, cor mio
Ha di serp’il velen
Epitaph for Moonlight R. Murray Schafer
(b. 1933)
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Selections from “Sacred and Profane” Benjamin Britten
(1913 - 1976)
Saint Godric’s Hymn
I mon waxe wod
The long night
Carol
Parlor Songs
Killarney M. W. Balfe
Madame Jeannette Alan Murray
Sing, Smile, Slumber Charles Gounod
O, Weary Feet Alfred Beirly
The Blue Alsatian Mountains Stephen Adams
January 2017
English Renaissance Songs John Dowland (1563-1626)
Come Again! Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
Come Away, Sweet Love
Come, Heavy Sleep
Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
Four Motets on Gregorian Themes Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
Ubi Caritas
Tota Pulchra Es
Tu Es Petrus
Tantum Ergo
Intermission
Music of the Synagogue
Barechu Salomone Rossi (ca. 1570-1630)
Elohim Hashivenu
Keter
Yihyu Lerozon Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
(Karen Rothschild, Soprano)
May The Words Of My Mouth Joshua Fishbein (born 1984)
French Choruses from The Lark Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
Spring Song
(Rebecca Berman, Alto)
Court Song
(Heidi Boas and Shirley Fan, Sopranos)
Soldier’s Song
June 2016
Italian Madrigals
Dissi a l'amata mia lucida stella Luca Marenzio
Candido leggiadretto e caro guanto (1553-99)
Zefiro torna e'l bel tempo rimena
Nuova angioletta sovra l'ale accorte
Living Composers
Alleluia Eric Whitacre
(Born 1970)
Diana Garibaldi, soprano solo
Tom Kostelecky, tenor solo
With a Lily in Your Hand
Solfeggio Arvo Part
(Born 1935)
Nunc Dimittis
Karen Rothschild, soprano solo
German Part-Songs
Der Sänger, Op. 145, No. 3 Robert Schumann
Der Schmidt, Op. 145, No. 1 (1810-56)
John Anderson, Op. 67, No. 5
Zahnweh, Op. 55, No. 2
Gute Nacht, Op. 59, No. 4
Shirley Fan, soprano solo
Three Shakespeare Settings
O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming? Emma Lou Diemer
Take, O Take Those Lips Away (Born 1927)
Sigh No More, Ladies, Sigh No More
January 2016
Four French Chansons
Tant que vivrai Claudin de Sermisy
Au joli bois (1490 – 1562)
Nous voyons que les hommes Guillaume Costeley
Quand le berger vit la bergère (1530 – 1606)
Four Madrigals by Sir Thomas Wyatt Thea Musgrave
(Born 1928)
With serving still
Tanglid I was in Love’s snare,
At most mischief
Hate whom ye list
Choral dances from Gloriana (1954) Benjamin Britten
(1913 – 1976)
1. Time
2. Concord “Concord is here”
3. Time and Concord “From springs of bounty”
4. Country girls
5. Rustics and fishermen
6. Final dance of homage
From Six Choral Folk Songs Op. 36b (1916) Gustav Holst
(1874 - 1934)
There was a Tree
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
The Song of the Blacksmith
Swansea Town
June 2015
Settings of Robert Herrick
Charm Me Asleep (1903) John Blackwood McEwen
(1868 - 1948)
Cupid, Op. 7, No. 1 (c. 1905) Roger Quilter
(1877 - 1953)
To Daffodils (1906) Harold Darke
(1888 - 1976)
To Music (1920) Sir George Dyson
(1883 - 1964)
Two Motets
Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren, BWV 231 J.S. Bach
(1685 - 1750)
Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, Op. 29, No. 1 Johannes Brahms
(1833 - 1897)
Iberian Villancicos
Es nascido Pedro de Cristo
(c. 1545 - 1618)
Nino dios d'amor herido Francesco Guerrero
(1528 - 1599)
Marking the Close of the Civil War Sesquicentennial
The Mask of Cain Robert Evett
The Portent (1922 - 1975)
Youth is a Time When Hearts are Large
Shiloh
Musical Riddles
Riddle Me This William Bergsma
The Snow (1921 - 1994)
The Egg
The Cow
January 2015
Selections from Chansons Françaises Francis Poulenc
(1899 - 1963)
Margoton va t'a l'iau
La belle se sied au pied de la tour
Pilons l'orge
Ah! Mon beau laboureur
Les tisserands
Ukvalské písně (Hukvaldy Songs) Leoš Janáček
(1854-1928)
Ondraš, Ondraš!
Ty ukvalsky kosteličku!
Na tych fojtovych łukach
Ty ukvalsky kosteličku, hej!
Pan Buh vam zapłať!
Fojtova Hanka
De profundis clamavi Josquin Des Prez (c.1450 - 1521)
Hear the Voice and Prayer Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 –1585)
Quam pulchri sunt Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525 –1594)
Pueri Hebraeorum Tomás Luis de Victoria (c. 1549 - 1611)
A Hymn to Christ Steven Beck (b. 1953)
Coney Island Rich Campbell (b. 1957)
Geographical Fugue Ernst Toch (1887-1964)
June 2014
Nun fanget an Hans Leo Hassler
(1564-1612)
Three Eastern Liturgical Settings
Ave Maria Igor Stravinsky
(1882-1971)
Bogoroditse Dyevo Arvo Pärt
(Born 1935)
Bogoroditze Dievo, Op. 27 No. 6 Sergei Rachmaninoff
(1873-1943)
Music from Latin America
Dios Itlazonantzine Anonymous
Sancta Mariae in ilhuicac (circa 1580)
Nonantsin Carlos Chavez
A Woman is a Worthy Thing (1899-1978)
Three British Part-songs
Quick, We Have But a Second C.V. Stanford
(1852-1924)
This Have I Done for My True Love, Op. 34, No. 1 Gustav Holst
Bring us in Good Ale (1874-1934)
Celebrating Shakespeare’s 450th Anniversary
Four Shakespeare Songs Knud Jeppesen
(1892-1974)
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
Winter
Spring
Under the Greenwood Tree
Two Shakespeare Songs Matthew Harris
(Born 1956)
It Was a Lover and His Lass
Sigh No More, Ladies
January 2014
Madrigals from Renaissance Italy
Bacco, Bacco Rampollini/Corteccia
(c. 1497 - c. 1553; 1502 - 1571)
Al turbar de' bei lumi Vittoria Aleotti
(ca. 1575 - after 1620)
El Grillo Josquin des Prez
(c.1440 - 1521)
German Lieder and Beyond
Der bucklichte Fiedler, Op. 93a, No. 1 Johannes Brahms
(1833 - 1897)
Im Herbst, Op. 104, No. 6
Rhapsodie, Op. 186, No. 5 Josef Rheinberger
(1839 - 1901)
Prayer for a Pilot Paul Hindemith
(1895 - 1963)
Young and Old
Philosophical Anecdotes Rick Sowash
(Born 1950)
I. The Philosopher
II. The Search
III. The Country Fair
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Music from Early America
Thus Saith the High, the Lofty One William Billings
(1746 - 1800)
Pilgrims and Puritans
Psalm 23, Low Dutch Tune Bay Psalm Book, 1698
Psalm 4, Oxford Tune
Psalm 73, York Tune
Yankee Tunesmiths
Montgomery Justin Morgan
(1747 - 1798)
Chester William Billings
Shaker tunes
A Time to Sing, A Time to Dance
Come Life, Shaker Life Issachar Bates (1758-1837)
Solo: Diana Garibaldi
Simple Gifts Joseph Brackett (1797-1892)
O Brethren, Ain’t You Happy?
Southern Harmony and The Sacred Harp
New Britain (Amazing Grace)
Promised Land
Solo Quartet: Karen Rothschild, Jeanne Morin,
Roger Reeve and Brock Hansen
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Commemorating the Centenary of the Composer’s Birth, November 22, 1913
“Old Joe Has Gone Fishing” from Peter Grimes Benjamin Britten
January 2013
Three Choruses Paul Ayres
(b 1970)
Arriston men hudor
We are anhungered
Strengthen for service
Selected Choruses Ludwig Senfl
(c 1486 – c 1542)
Elslein, liebes Elselein mein
Es taget vor dem Walde
Elslein liebes Elselein mein/Es taget vor dem Walde
Man sing, man sag
Non moriar
Quis dabit oculis nostris
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Four Choruses Frank Bridge
(1879 – 1941)
Autumn
Music, when soft voices die
O weary hearts!
The Bee
Spirituals Harry Thacker Burleigh
(1866 – 1949)
I’ve been in the storm so long
O Lord, have mercy on me
Dig my grave long and narrow
Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel?
June 2012
Jocular Trios
Punch Thomas Arne
(1710 – 1778)
The Mayfly John Wall Callcott
(1766 – 1821)
Two Lawyers Benjamin Cuzens
(late 18th Century)
Life’s a Bumper Richard Wainwright
(1757 – 1825)
Selected Choruses Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
(1848 - 1918)
Music, when soft voices die
I know my soul hath power to know all things
How sweet the answer
There rolls the deep
Come, pretty wag, and sing
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Petites Voix Francis Poulenc
(1899 – 1963)
La Petite Fille Sage
Le Chien Perdu
En Rentrant de l’École
Le Petit Garçon Malade
Le Herisson
Italian Madrigals
Erasi al sole il mio bel sole assiso Costanzo Porta
(1529 – 1601)
Di marmo siete voi Marco da Gagliano
(1582 – 1643)
Fummo felici un tempo Orazio Vecchi
(1550 – 1605)
Verament’in amore Filippo di Monte
(1521 – 1603)
Quand’io ero giovinetta Giovanni Gabrieli
(c1554 – 1612)
January 2012
Selected Choruses Josef Rheinberger
(1839 – 1901)
Willkommen
Erstes Wanderlied
Nachtgesang
Im stillen Grunde
Die Sonn is unter
Der Strom
Abendlied
Selected Choruses Darius Milhaud
(1892 - 1974)
Et le bonheur
La barque funéraire
Bois cette tasse de tenebres
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Grechesche Madrigali
Seconda apparition del cagnolo
del mese de Agosto Adrian Willaert
(1490 – 1562)
Chel bello Epithimia Giacches de Wert
(1535-1596)
Donna curtese e bella Pietro Taglia
(dates unknown)
Amur se mi tel dao Francesco Bonardo
(dates unknown)
Living British Composers
A Ship with Unfurled Sails Gabriel Jackson
Song (I gaze upon you) Gabriel Jackson
The Wine of Love Richard G. Grylls
June 2011
I. Aftonen Hugo Alfvén
(1872 – 1960)
Le Brick Darius Milhaud
(1892 – 1974)
Meine Schwester, liebe Braut Melchior Franck
(c 1579 – 1639)
II. A la mu han Shui-Long Ma
(b 1939)
Nature Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
(1895 – 1968)
Zwischen perg und tieffem tal Heinrich Isaac
(c 1450 – 1517)
III. Selig sind die Toten Heinrich Schütz
(1585 – 1672)
Соловушко (The Nighingale) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(1840 – 1893) Kállai kettős György Ligeti
(1923 – 2006)
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IV. The Brook Edward MacDowell
(1860 – 1908)
Were you there? Harry Thacker Burleigh
(1866 – 1949)
Yaa’leh Jacob Beimel
(1875-1944)
Timor et tremor Orlandus Lassus
(c 1532 – 1594)
V. O fugace, o superba Sigismondo d’India
(c 1582 – 1629)
Love bears all things Paul Moravec
(b 1957) The Greenwood Amy Beach
(1867-1944)
Salseo Oscar Galián
(b 1960)
January 2011
Double Chorus Works Michael Praetorius
(1571 - 1621)
Aus tiefer Not
Verleih uns Fried
18th-Century British Glees
In cool grot Garret Colley Wellesley
(1735 – 1781)
Take, O take those lips away James Elliott
(1783 – 1856)
Ye spotted snakes Richard John Samuel Stevens
(1757 – 1837)
The nightingale John Danby
(1757 – 1798)
Ring out, ye crystal spheres William Crotch
(1775 – 1847)
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Three Selections from Missa de requiem (1925) Henrique Oswald
(1852 – 1931)
Choruses from West and South Africa
Agoro yede (Ghana)
Aluwa sio (Benin)
Anigye aba’o (Ghana)
Kayra sillo (Mandingo – Senegal, Guinea, Mali)
Dubula (!Xhosa – South Africa)
June 2010
Two Choruses James MacMillan
(b. 1959)
To My Successor
The Gallant Weaver
Five Choruses Sergei Taneyev
(1856 - 1915)
Вeчeр (Evening)
Cocнa (The Pinetree)
Пoсмтри кaкaя мглa (Look, what a mist)
Cepeнaдa (Lullaby)
Aльпьі (The Alps)
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Royal Dilettante and His Court Composer
Pastime with good company Henry VIII
(1491 – 1547)
Ah Robin, gentle Robin William Cornish
(1465 – 1523)
Adieu Madame et ma maistresse Henry VIII
Adieu mes amours Cornish
Gentil Prince de renom Henry VIII
Selections from Indianas Carlos Guastavino
(1912 – 2000)
Gala del día
Quién fuera como el jazmín
Al tribunal de tu pecho
Viento norte
January 2010
Flemish and Dutch Renaissance Liedekin
O wrede fortune ghy doet my trueren nu Tielman Susato
(c. 1510 – c. 1570)
Janne moye, al claer! Lupus Hellinc
(c. 1493 – c. 1541)
Eylaes, eylaes, myn vreucht is al verjaegt Anonymous
Het clopten een vrouken Anonymous
Compt alle uut by twe by drye Lupus Hellinc
Een Venus schoon Clemens non Papa
(c. 1510 – c. 1556)
Transcendent Love Songs (1982) Paul Moravec
(b. 1957)
Set Me as a Seal
Love Bears All Things
The Flowers Appear on the Earth
Greater Love
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Contrasting Contemporaries: Rossini and Loewe
Toast pour le nouvel an Gioacchino Rossini
(1792 – 1868)
Im Vorubergehn Carl Loewe
(1796 – 1869)
Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein reines Herze Loewe
In der Marienkirche Loewe
Quando corpus morietur (from Stabat Mater) Rossini
Trois Chansons (1908-1910) Claude Debussy
(1796 – 1869)
Dieu! qu’il a fait bon regarder!
Quant j’ai ouy le tabourin
Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain
June 2009
13th-Century French Motets
Cil s’entremet/Nus hom/Victimae paschali Anon.
(c. 1250)
Psallat chorus/Eximie pater/Aptatur Franco of Cologne?
(c. 1250)
Pange melos lacrimosum Anon.
(c. 1200)
Hypocrite, pseudopontifices/Velut stellae/Et gaudebit Anon.
(c. 1210)
Der Abend, Op.34, Nr. 1 Richard Strauss
(1864 - 1949)
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Two Sacred Choruses Giuseppe Verdi
(1813 – 1901)
Ave Maria (on the Enigmatic scale)
Padre Nostro
Western Songs Libby Larsen
(b. 1950)
Buffalo Gals
Green Grow the Lilacs
The Ol’ Chisholm Trail
January 2009
Vinamintra Elitavi Thomas Jennefelt
(b. 1954)
Six Sacred Choruses Hugo Wolf
(Texts by Joseph von Eichendorff) (1860 - 1903)
Aufblick
Einklang
Resignation
Letzte Bitte
Ergebung
Ehrebung
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19th-Century Jewish Liturgical Music
Adon olam Wilhelm Würfel
(1791 – 1832)
Psalm 92, v. 2 – 10 Franz Schubert
(1797 – 1828)
Madrigals Sigismondo d’India
(c1582 – 1629)
Cor mio, deh non languire
Crud’Amarilli
Quasi tra rose e gigli
Filli, mirando il cielo
June 2008
Four Choruses Claude Le Jeune
(c1628 – 1600)
J’aime la pierre précieuse
Le feu, l’air, l’eau, la terre
Le beau du monde s’éfface
Revoici venir du printemps
Pastoral Choruses Gerald Finzi
(1901 - 1956)
Haste on, my joys!
I praise the tender flower
My spirit sang all day
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Folksong Settings Ralph Vaughan Williams
(1872 - 1958)
Ca’ the yowes
An acre of land
The turtledove
Just as the tide was flowing
Motets from Geistliche Chormusik 1648 Heinrich Schütz
(1585 – 1672)
Das Wort ward Fleisch
Ich bin eine rufende Stimme
Sammelt zuvor das Unkraut
Herr, auf dich traue ich
January 2008
Three Songs on Poems of Wilfred Owen Stephen Paulus
(1949 - )
Nocturne
Song of Songs
Winter Song
Sacred Motets Salamone Rossi
(1570 - 1630)
Shir hamma’alot, beshuv adonai
Odekha ki’anitani
Barukh haba beshem adonai
Haleluyah, ashrei ish yare et adonai
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Strophic Choruses Max Bruch
(1838 - 1920)
Musicaklang
Weit, weit aus ferner Zeit
Lenz, komm herbei!
Ackeley
Der Mutter Klage
Der fröhliche Musicus
Contemporary Latin American Choruses
Para peneirar Esther Scliar
(1926 - 1978)
Lua, lua, lua Esther Scliar
Salseo Oscar Galian
(1960 - )
Mata del anima sola Antonio Estévez
(1916 - 1988)
June 2004
Madrigals from Books I and III Sigismondo d’India
(c1582 - 1629)
Dove, ah dove t’en vai?
Dovrò dunque morire
Ma con chi parl’ahi, lassa?
Pur venisti, cor mio
Ha di serp’il velen
Epitaph for Moonlight R. Murray Schafer
(b. 1933)
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Selections from “Sacred and Profane” Benjamin Britten
(1913 - 1976)
Saint Godric’s Hymn
I mon waxe wod
The long night
Carol
Parlor Songs
Killarney M. W. Balfe
Madame Jeannette Alan Murray
Sing, Smile, Slumber Charles Gounod
O, Weary Feet Alfred Beirly
The Blue Alsatian Mountains Stephen Adams
