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January 2020

 

 

 

Four Austrian Part-Songs

Franz Joseph Haydn

 

Die Harmonie in der Ehe

(1732-1809)

 

An den Vetter

 

 

Der Greis

 

 

Die Beredsamkeit

 

 

 

 

French Chansons Old and New

 

 

Long temps mon cueur languissoit

Pierre de Manchicourt

 

O cruaulté logée en grand beaulté

(1510-1564)

 

Deux Chansons de Clément Marot

Jean Langlais

 

Je suis aymé de la plus belle

(1907-1991)

 

Aux damoyselles paresseuses d'escrire à leurs amys

 

 

 

 

Songs of Springtime

E.J. Moeran

 

1. Under the Greenwood Tree (Shakespeare)

(1894-1950)

 

2. The River-God's Song (John Fletcher)

 

 

3. Spring, the Sweet Spring (Thomas Nashe)

 

 

4. Love is a Sickness (Samuel Daniel)

 

 

5. Sigh no More, Ladies (Shakespeare)

 

 

6. Good Wine (William Browne)

 

 

7. To Daffodils (Herrick)

 

 

 

 

Three Nonsense Songs of Edward Lear

Mátyás Seiber

 

There was an old lady of France

(1905-1960)

 

There was an old person of Cromer

 

 

There was an old man in a tree

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 2019

 

 

 

William Byrd, Sacred and Secular

William Byrd (1543-1623)

 

The Sweet and Merry Month of May

Is Love a Boy?

Sacerdotes Domini

Mass for Four Voices: Sanctus and Benedictus

 

 

 

 

An American Master

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

 

Heaven-Haven

To be Sung on the Water

Let down the bars, O Death

Sure on This Shining Night

 

 

 

 

Twentieth Century Folksong Arrangements

 

 

Drei Volkslieder, Op. 49

Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)

 

Es gingen zwei Gespielen gut

Der Mai tritt ein mit Freuden

Mein Herz in steten Treuen

 

 

 

 

A Garland for the Queen

 

 

Silence and Music

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

 

White-Flowering Days

Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)

 

The Hills

John Ireland (1879-1962)

 

 

 

Two Spirituals

 

 

Listen to the Lambs

R. Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943)

 

Ain’-a That Good News!

William L. Dawson (1899-1990)

 

 

 

 

 

January 2019

 

 

 

Three English Partsongs

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

 

Love, Op. 18, No. 2

Serenade, Op. 73, No. 2

Evening Scene

 

 

 

 

Cinq Chansons Françaises

Georges Auric (1899-1983)

 

1. Pour un Chief-d'Oeuvre

2. Le Jour m'est Nuict

3. J'en ay le Dueil

4. C'est un grant Paine

5. Quant je me treuve

 

 

 

 

Chromatic Renaissance

 

 

O sonno      

Datemi pace              

From Prophetiae Sibyllarum

     Prologue: Carmina Chromatico    

     XII. Sibylla Agrippa: Summus erit sub carne satus

Cipriano de Rore (c. 1515-1565)

Cipriano

Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)

 

 

 

Of the Ages

Joshua Fishbein (b. 1984)

 

1. Youth and Age

2. Playgrounds

3. The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water

 

 

 

 

A Prep-School Boy

Fishbein

 

 

 

“Old Joe Has Gone Fishing” from Peter Grimes

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 2018

 

 

 

Chansons, Lieder, and a Madrigal

Orlando Di Lasso (1532-1594)

 

Fleur de quinze ans

Quand mon mary vient

Ich weiss mir ein Meidlein

Wem soll man jetzund

Matona, mia cara

 

 

 

 

Carols of Death

William Schuman (1910-1992)

 

The Last Invocation

The Unknown Region

To All, To Each

 

 

 

 

from Deutsche Messe, D872

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

 

Zum Gloria

Zum Offertorium

Zum Sanctus

Zum Schlussgesang

 

 

 

 

Mátrai képek (Matra pictures)

Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)

 

1. A Vidrocki hires nyaja (The famous herd of Vidroczki)

2. Elmegyek (I'm leaving)

3. Madarka (Birdie)

4. Sej, a tari reten (In the meadow at Tar)

5. 2 tynkom tavalyi (2 hens, last year's)

 

 

 

 

Somewhere

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

arr. William Stickles

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 2018

 

 

 

Four Partsongs

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

 

What the Bee is to the Flow’ret, Op. 78, No. 2

It is Not the Tear, Op. 78, No. 5

Peace, Come Away

The Morris Dance

 

 

 

 

 

Three Nocturnes

Carlos Chavez (1899-1978)

 

Sonnet to Sleep

To the Moon

So, we'll go no more a roving

 

 

 

 

 

Music for the Magi

 

 

Los set gotxs recomptarem

Llibre Vermell, 14th c.

 

Ibant Magi

Francesco Guerrero (1529-1599)

 

Ab oriente venerunt magi

Jacob Handl (1550-1591)

 

A un Niño Iorando

Francesco Guerrero

 

 

 

 

Music and Musicians of the Great War

 

 

Воскрес из гроба (“Risen from the Grave”), from All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 (1915)

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

 

“The Lads in Their Hundreds” (1911-12)

George Butterworth (1885-1916)

 

Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis (1914)

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

 

Valiant-for-Truth (1940)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

 

 

 

 

Celebrating the Bernstein Centennial

 

 

Make Our Garden Grow

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

(arr. Robert Page)

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 2017

 

 

 

Baroque Opera Choruses

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

 

Banish Sorrow, Banish Care, from Dido and Aeneus

If Love's a Sweet Passion, from The Fairy Queen

Hush, No More, from The Fairy Queen

Fairest Isle, from King Arthur

 

 

 

 

 

Modern American Music

 

 

Heart Not So Heavy as Mine

Elliott Carter (1908-2012)

 

Walking on the Green Grass

Michael Hennagin (1936-1993)

 

Under the Greenwood Tree

Hennagin

 

 

 

 

German Motets

 

 

Ecce concipies

Jacob Handl (1550-1591)

 

Sicut Moses serpentem in deserto exaltavit

Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)

 

Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden, BWV 230

J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

 

O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf, Op. 74, No. 2

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

 

 

 

 

Doo-Wop Madrigals

 

 

April is in my mistress’ face

Thomas Morley (1557-1603)

 

Cool April

arr. Gregg Smith (1931-2016)

 

Mon coeur se recommande a vous

attrib. Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594)

 

My Heart is Longing for Your Love

arr. Gregg Smith

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Music of the Synagogue

 

 

Barechu

Elohim Hashivenu

Keter

Salomone Rossi (ca. 1570-1630)

 

Yihyu Lerozon

Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)

 

May the Words Of My Mouth

Joshua Fishbein (b. 1984)

 

 

 

 

French Choruses from The Lark

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

 

Spring Song

Court Song

Soldier’s Song

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 2016

 

 

 

Italian Madrigals

Luca Marenzio (1553-99)

 

Dissi a l'amata mia lucida stella

Candido leggiadretto e caro guanto

Zefiro torna e'l bel tempo rimena

Nuova angioletta sovra l'ale accorte

 

 

 

 

 

Living Composers

 

 

Alleluia

Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)

 

With a Lily in Your Hand

Whitacre

 

Solfeggio

Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)

 

Nunc Dimittis

Pärt

 

 

 

 

German Part-Songs

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

 

Der Sänger, Op. 145, No. 3

Der Schmidt, Op. 145, No. 1

John Anderson, Op. 67, No. 5

Zahnweh, Op. 55, No. 2

Gute Nacht, Op. 59, No. 4

 

 

 

 

 

Three Shakespeare Settings

Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927)

 

O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming?

Take, O Take Those Lips Away

Sigh No More, Ladies, Sigh No More

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 2016

 

 

 

Four French Chansons

 

 

Tant que vivrai

Claudin de Sermisy (1490-1562)

 

Au joli bois

Sermisy

 

Nous voyons que les hommes

Guillaume Costeley (1530-1606)

 

Quand le berger vit la bergère

Costeley

 

 

 

 

Four Madrigals by Sir Thomas Wyatt

Thea Musgrave (b. 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 texts

 

 

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)

 

Niño dios d'amor herido

Francesco Guerrero (1528-1599)

 

 

 

Marking the Close of the Civil War Sesquicentennial

 

The Mask of Cain

1. The Portent

2. Youth is a Time When Hearts are Large

3. Shiloh

Robert Evett (1922-1975)

 

 

 

Musical Riddles

 

 

Riddle Me This

The Snow

The Egg

The Cow

William Bergsma (1921-1994)

 

 

 

 

 

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 Pierluigi 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 (b. 1935)

 

Bogoroditze Dievo, Op. 27 No. 6

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

 

 

 

Music from Latin America

 

 

Dios Itlazonantzine

Anonymous (circa 1580)

 

Sancta Mariae (in Ilhuicac)

Anon.

 

Nonantsin

Carlos Chavez (1899-1978)

 

A Woman is a Worthy Thing

Chavez

 

 

 

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 (1874-1934)

 

Bring us in Good Ale

Holst

 

 

 

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 (b. 1956)

 

It Was a Lover and His Lass

Sigh No More, Ladies

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 2014

 

 

 

Madrigals from Renaissance Italy

 

 

Bacco, Bacco

Mattio Rampollini (c. 1497 - c. 1553)/

Francesco Corteccia 1502-1571)

 

Al turbar de' bei lumi

Vittoria Aleotti (c. 1575-after 1620)

 

El Grillo

Josquin des Prez (c. 1450-1521)

 

 

 

German Lieder and Beyond

 

 

Der bucklichte Fiedler, Op. 93a, No. 1

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

 

Im Herbst, Op. 104, No. 6

Brahms

 

Rhapsodie, Op. 186, No. 5

Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901)

 

Prayer for a Pilot

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

 

Young and Old

Hindemith 

 

 

 

Philosophical Anecdotes

Rick Sowash (b. 1950)

 

I.    The Philosopher

II.   The Search

III.  The Country Fair

 

 

 

 

Music from Early America

 

 

Thus Saith the High, the Lofty One

William Billings (1746-1800)

 

 

 

Pilgrims and Puritans

 

 

Psalm 23, Low Dutch Tune

Psalm 4, Oxford Tune

Psalm 73, York Tune

Bay Psalm Book, 1698

 

 

 

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)

 

Simple Gifts

Joseph Brackett (1797-1892)

 

O Brethren, Ain’t You Happy?

 

 

 

 

Southern Harmony and The Sacred Harp

 

 

New Britain (Amazing Grace)

Promised Land

 

 

 

 

Commemorating the Centenary of the Composer’s Birth, November 22, 1913

 

“Old Joe Has Gone Fishing” from Peter Grimes

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

 

 

 

 

 

June 2013

 

 

 

Four Madrigals

John Wilbye (1574-1638)

 

Adieu, sweet Amaryllis

Happy, O happy he

Of joys and pleasing pains

My throat is sore

 

 

 

 

Five Choruses

Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901)

 

Gewitter

Abend am Meer

Die Wolken

Rhapsodie

Nordwind

 

 

 

 

A Summer Garland

Alan Bullard (b. 1947)

 

May, queen of blossoms

The rose in June

Busy fly

July evening

Summer queen

 

 

 

 

Four Latin American Choruses

 

 

Se equivocó la paloma

Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000)

 

Cuando tú no estás

Carlos Gardel (1890-1935)/

Liliana Cangiano (1950-1997)

 

Lua, lua, lua

Esther Scliar (1926-1978)

 

Carpuela lindo

Milton Tadeo Carcelén (1956-2009)/

Eugenio Auz Sánchez (b. 1958)

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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 Victorian 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

 

 

 

 

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 (c. 1554-1612)

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Grechesche Madrigali

 

 

Seconda apparition del cagnolo del mese de Agosto

Adrian Willaert (1490-1562)

 

Chel bello Epithimia

Giaches de Wert (1535-1596)

 

Donna curtese e bella

Pietro Taglia (fl. 1555-1565)

 

Amur se mi tel dao

Francesco Bonardo (dates unknown)

 

 

 

Living British Composers

 

 

A Ship with Unfurled Sails

Gabriel Jackson (b. 1962)

 

Song (I gaze upon you)

Gabriel Jackson

 

The Wine of Love

Richard G. Grylls (?-)

 

 

 

 

 

June 2011

 

 

 

Aftonen

Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960)

 

Le Brick

Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)

 

Meine Schwester, liebe Braut

Melchior Franck (c. 1579-1639)

 

 

 

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)

 

 

 

Selig sind die Toten

Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)

 

Solovushko (The Nighingale)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

 

Kállai kettős

György Ligeti (1923-2006)

 

 

 

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)

 

 

 

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)

 

 

 

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)

 

Vyecher (Evening)

Sosna (The Pinetree)

Posmotri kakaya mgla (Look, what a mist)

Serenada (Lullaby)

Al'py (The Alps)

 

 

 

 

A 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

 

 

 

 

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)

 

 

 

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 (1860-1903)

(Texts by Joseph von Eichendorff)

 

Aufblick

Einklang

Resignation

Letzte Bitte

Ergebung

Ehrebung

 

 

 

 

19th-Century Jewish Liturgical Music

 

 

Adon olam

Wilhelm Würfel (1791-1832)

 

Psalm 92, v. 2 – 10

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

 

 

 

Madrigals

Sigismondo d’India (c. 1582-1629)

 

Cor mio, deh non languire

Crud’Amarilli

Quasi tra rose e gigli

Filli, mirando il cielo

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 2008

 

 

 

Four Choruses

Claude Le Jeune (c. 1628-1600)

 

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

 

 

 

 

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 (b. 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

 

 

 

 

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 (b. 1960)

 

Mata del anima sola

Antonio Estévez (1916-1988)

 

 

 

 

 

June 2007

 

 

 

Four Choruses

Charles Gounod (1818-1893)

 

D’un coeur qui t’aime

Ave verum

Le crucifix

Prière du soir

 

 

 

 

Four Madrigals

Thea Musgrave (b. 1928)

 

With serving still

Tanglid I was in Love’s snare

At most mischief

Hate whom ye list

 

 

 

 

Three choruses

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)

 

Prelude from Bachianas Brasileiras #9

Duas Lendas Amerindias em Nheengatu

        Iurupari e o Menino

        Iurupari e o Caçador

 

 

 

 

Four English Madrigals

 

 

O Care, thou wilt despatch me

Thomas Weekles (1576-1623)

 

I love, alas, I love thee

Thomas Morley (1557-1602)

 

Leave, alas, this tormenting

Morley

 

Oyez! Has any found a lad?

Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)

 

 

 

 

 

January 2007

 

 

 

Madrigals from Book VII

Giaches de Wert (1535-1596)

 

Sorgi e rischiara

Giunto alla tomba

Vaghi boschetti

 

 

 

 

Five Songs, Opus 104

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

 

Nachtwache #1

Nachtwache #2

Letztes Glück

Verlorene Jugend

Im Herbst

 

 

 

 

Six Chansons

Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

 

La Biche

Un Cygne

Puisque Tout Passe

Printemps

En Hiver

Verger

 

 

 

 

Five Settings of Robert Herrick

John Clements (1900-1970)

 

To Blossoms

An Hymne to Love

His Covenant, or Protestation to Julia

To Keep a True Lent

The White Island

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 2006

 

Nichts ohne Liebe

So weich und warm

Aetherische Geisterstimmen

Der Fichtenbaum

Die Sternlein

Peter Cornelius (1824-1874)

 

 

Faute d'argent (in C)

Mille regretz

Parfons regretz (in A)

Tu pauperum refugium

Petite camusette

Josquin des Prez (c. 1450-1521)

 

 

The Wind and the Day

Too soon so fair, fair lilies

Scythe Song

Arthur Foote (1853-1937)

 

 

Inaktelki nóták

Haj, ifjuság!

Kállai kettős

György Ligeti (1923-2006)

 

 

Come to where my love lies dreaming [encore?]

Stephen Foster (1826-1864)

 

 

January 2006

 

Meine Schwester, liebe Braut

Ich sucht des Nachts in meinem Bette

Fahet uns die Füchse

Du bist aller Dinge schön, meine Freundin

Melchior Franck (c. 1579-1639)

 

 

Der Tanz

Hymne an den Unendlichen

Des Tages Weihe

Gott der Weltschöpfer

Lebenslust

Schicksalslenker

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

 

 

Villarosa Sarialdi

Thomas Jennefelt (b. 1954)

 

 

The Blind Man Stood on the Road and Cried

Walk together children

Steal away

You gonna reap just what you sow

Deep River

Hold on

Harry Thacker Burleigh (1866-1949)

 

 

Oh, Freedom [encore]

Hall Johnson (1888-1970)

 

 

June 2005

 

Solo e pensoso

Ove sei, vita mia

Timor et tremor

Baur, baur, was tregst in Sacke?

Cri de detresse

Orlando Lasso (1532-1594)

 

 

Napadly písně

Večerní les rozvázal zvonky

Žitné pole

Vyběhla bříza běličká

Dnes do skoku a do písničky

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

 

 

Thou hast made me endless

Here is thy footstool

Where the mind is without fear

Paul Creston (1906-1985)

 

 

Su, su, su, non piu dormir

Giovanni Ferretti (c. 1540-after 1609)

Cara mia Dafne

Lelio Bertani (1554-1624)

Ecco, o mia dolce pena

Pomponio Nenna (1556-1608)

O dolorosa sorte

Benedetto Pallavicino (c. 1551-1601)

 

 

Who shall have my lady fair? [encore]

Robert Pearsall

 

 

January 2005

 

Le feu, l’air, l’eau, la terre

Y a t’il rien si fort?

Le beau du monde

Quel monstre!

[ L’eau va vite en s’écoulant ]

Claude Le Jeune (c. 1628-1600)

 

 

Fürchte dich nicht

J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

 

 

La Guitarra (w/ guitar)

Puñal

Memento

Baile

Crótalo

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)

 

 

Music, all powerful

Thomas Walmisley (1814-1856)

There rolls the deep

C. Hubert Parry (1848-1918)

List! for the breeze

John Goss (1800–1880)

Music, when soft voices die

Parry

Who shall have my lady fair?

Robert Pearsall (1795–1856)

 

 

My spirit sang all day [encore]

 Gerald Finzi

 

 

June 2004

 

Madrigals from Books I and III

Sigismondo d’India (c. 1582-1629)

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)

 

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 (1808-1870)

Madame Jeannette

Alan Murray (1890-1952)

Sing, Smile, Slumber

Charles Gounod (1818-1893)

O, Weary Feet

Alfred Beirly (1848-1929)

The Blue Alsatian Mountains

Stephen Adams (1841-1913)

 

 

January 2004

 

Latvian Songs

Kas tie tadi, kas dziedaja?

Jekabs Graubins (1886-1961)

Rozes

Ädolfs Äbele (1889-1967)

Vai bus laime?

Äbele

Silmala Triceja

Graubins

Aiz upites meitas dzied

Äbele

 

 

Ecce quam bonum

Ecce Dominus veniet

Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629)

 

 

Le jour m'est nuict

J'en ay le dueil

C'est grant paine

Georges Auric (1899-1983)

 

 

Let down the bars, O Death

Heaven-Haven

Mary Hines

To be Sung on the Water

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

 

 

Psalm 100 – Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt

Psalm 43 – Richte mich, Gott

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

 

 

Londonderry Air [encore]

Percy Grainger (1882-1961)

 

 

June 2003

 

Zion hört die Wächter singen

J. C. F. Bach (1732-1795)

 

 

On Saints’ days in Chigisakh

Ovsen

The Pike

Master Portly

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

 

 

The May-fly

John W. Callcott (1766-1821)

The captive lover

Henry Lawes (1595-1662)

Amo, amas, I love a lass

anon.

 

 

See, see the shepherds’ queen

Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)

See what a maze of error

George Kirbye (1565-1634)

Poor is the life

Michael East (1580-1648)

Too much I once lamented

Tomkins

 

 

June

Shena Van

The year’s at the spring

[ The Greenwood ]

Amy Beach (1867-1944)

 

 

Calon Lan [encore]

John Hughes (1872–1914)

 

 

January 2003

 

Four Pastorales

Cecil Effinger (1914-1990)

No Mark

Noon

Basket

Wood

 

 

 

Vezzosi augelli

Forsennata gridava

Mia benigna fortuna

[ Che salirà per me ]

Giaches de Wert (1535-1596)

 

 

Mu ge (Pastoral song)

Xi Xiang Qu

A la mu han

Shui-Long Ma

Shan hai huan chang

Chun-rong Zhuang

 

 

Ave Maria

Locus iste

Os justi

Christus factus est

Virga Jesse

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

 

 

Concord [encore]

Britten

 

 

June 2002

 

My gentle harp

Come o’er the sea

How dear to me the hour

Lay his sword by his side

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

 

 

Itene, o miei sospiri

Dolcissima mia vita

“Mercè,” grido piangendo

Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613)

 

 

At the grave

Night in Venice

The stars

Serguei Taneyev (1856-1915)

 

 

Simple Gifts

I bought me a cat

At the river

Ching-a-ring chaw

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

 

 

Nature [encore]

 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

 

 

January 2002

 

Tröstet, tröstet mein Volk

Selig sind die Toten

So fahr ich hin zu Jesu Christ

Unser keiner lebet ihm selber

Das ist je gewißlich wahr

Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)

 

 

Nature

Rossignol

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)

 

 

Battaglia (part 1)

Andrea Gabrieli (1533-1585)

Battaglia (part 2)

Andrea Gabrieli

O Magnum Mysterium

Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554-1612)

Feritevi, ferite

Heinrich Schütz

 

 

Swedish Songs

 

Aftonen

Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960)

När den sköna Maj med sippor kommit

August Söderman (1832-1876)

Det första vårregnet

Hildor Lundvik (1885-1951)

Dalvisa

Alfvén

Och jungfrun hon går i ringen

Alfvén

 

 

Sweet and Low [encore]

Joseph Barnby (1838-1896)

 

 

June 2001

 

Deh! Chi mi fa languire

Dove, dove son io?

O fugace, o superba

Perché non mi mirate?

Ardemmo insieme

Sigismondo d’India (c. 1582-1629)

 

 

Gebet (Prayer)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

 

 

Solovusho (The nightingale)

Ne kukushechka vo syidom bogu
 (Tis not the cuckoo in the damp wood)

Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

 

 

Flower Songs – To daffodils

The succession of four sweet months

March flowers

The evening primrose

Green broom

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

 

 

Swansea Town [encore]

Gustav Holst

 

 

January 2001

 

Bach’s Uncles

Fürchte dich nicht

Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703)

Halt, was du hast

Johann Michael Bach (1648-1694)

Das ist meine Freude

Johann Ludwig Bach (1677-1731)

 

 

Calme des nuits

Les fleurs et les arbres

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

 

 

Awakening

Stephen Paulus (b. 1949)

I. Luminous Mind

II. The Sage

III. Loving-Kindness

IV. Virtue

V. All Living Beings

 

 

 

As Torrents in Summer

Feasting I Watch

Weary Wind of the West

O Wild West Wind

Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

 

 

O Happy Eyes [encore]

Elgar

 

 

June 2000

 

Awake, sweet love

Weep you no more, sad fountains

Now, O now, I needs must part

John Dowland (1563-1626)

 

 

La reine de Saba

A peine défigurée

Belle et ressemblante

Marie

François Poulenc (1899-1963)

 

 

Der Falke

Waldesnacht

All meine Herzgedanken

Es geht ein Wehen

Beherzigung

[ Rosmarin ]

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

 

 

Mary Hines

Anthony O Daly

The Coolin

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

 

 

 

 

O Lord, have mercy on me [encore]

H. T. Burleigh (1866-1949)

 

 

January 2000

 

Evening

The pinetree

Look, what a mist

Serenade

The Alps

Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915)

 

 

Cantate Domino

Hieronymus Praetorius (1560-1629)

 

 

Éloge

Le brick

Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)

 

 

The Blind Man Stood on the Road and Cried

I’ve Been in the Storm So Long

Deep River

O Lord, have mercy on me

The Gospel Train

Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949)

 

 

Hold On [encore]

H. T. Burleigh

 

 

June 1999

 

Prière du soir

Ave verum corpus

Le crucifix

D’un coeur qui t’aime

Charles Gounod (1818-1893)

 

 

Zwischen perg und tieffem tal

Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen

Es het ein Baur ein Töchterlein

Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450-1517)

 

 

Sfogava con le stele

Voi pur da me partite, anima dura

A un giro sol de' begl'occhi lucenti

O Mirtillo, Mirtillo anima mia

Ma tu, piu che mai dura

[ Che dar piú vi poss’io? ]

[ Volgea l’anima mia soavemente ]

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

 

 

Full fathom five

The cloud-capp’d towers

Over hill, over dale

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

 

 

My spirit sang all day [encore]

Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)

 

 

January 1999

 

Nochevala tuchka zolotaya

Na son gryadushchii

Kheruvimskaya pesn #1

[ Milost' mira ]

Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

 

 

Frühlingsahnung

Die Primel

Frühlingsfeier

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

 

 

Im Herbste

Abendlich schon rauscht der Wald

Im Wald

Fanny Hensel (1805-1847)

 

 

Vous êtes trop jeune

Nicolas Gombert (1495-1560)

Que n'est elle auprès de moi

Pierre Certon (1515-1572)

Pleurez mes yeux

Dominique Phinot (c. 1510-c. 1556)

Bonjour mon coeur

Philippe de Monte (1521-1603)

 

 

My spirit sang all day

I praise the tender flower

Haste on, my joys!

Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)

 

 

Kheruvimskaya pesn #2 [encore]

Tchaikovsky

Die Nachtigall [encore]

Mendelssohn

 

 

June 1998

 

The splendour falls on castle walls

On Craig Ddu

Midsummer Song

Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

 

 

Margoton va t’a l’iau

La belle se sied au pied de la tour

Pilons l’orge

Ah! mon beau laboureur

Les tisserands

François Poulenc (1899-1963)

 

 

Filli, mirando il cielo (1a parte)

Io mi distill'in pianto (2a parte)

Felice chi vi mira (1a parte)

Ben ebbe amica stella (2a parte)

Che non t’ami, cor mio

[ Cor mio, deh non languire ]

Sigismondo d’India (c. 1582-1629)

 

 

I Love My Love

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

Ca’ the Yowes

                     Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Swansea Town

Holst

 

 

Rise Up My Love [encore]

David Nassau (b. 1985)

 

 

January 1998

 

Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts

What shall I do to show how much I love her?

I was glad

O Lord God of Hosts

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

 

 

Nicolette

Trois beaux oiseaux du Paradis

Ronde

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

 

 

Swedish Songs

 

Skogssång

W. Peterson-Berger (1867-1942)

Jag skall hålla mig i min hand

Bror Axel Söderlundh (1912-1957)

Som stjärnan uppå himmelen så klar

Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960)

Stämning

Peterson-Berger

Det är ei tid

Söderlundh

 

 

Mata del anima sola

Antonio Estévez (1916-1988)

Salmo 150

Ernani Aguiar (b. 1950)

Te quiero

Alberto Favero (b. 1944)

 

 

Die Nachtigall [encore]

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

 

 

June 1997

 

Adieu, ye city-prisoning towers

Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656)

Music divine

Tomkins

Sweet Suffolk owl

Thomas Vautor (1592-1619)

O yes! Has any found a lad?

Tomkins

[ Sleep, fleshly birth ]

Robert Ramsey (1590s-1644)

 

 

Dieu! Qu’il la fait bon regarder!

Quant j’ai ouy le tabourin

Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain

Claude Debussy (1796-1869)

 

 

When faces like flowers float out of the ground

Rise Up My Love

Brown Penny

David Nassau (b. 1985)

 

 

Napadly písně

Večerní les rozvázal zvonky

Žitné pole

Vyběhla bříza běličká

Dnes do skoku a do písničky

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

 

 

Concord [encore]

Britten

 

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