Hugo Wolf – Past Concerts

Selections from the beloved song cycles of Hugo Wolf and Robert Schumann.

Music by Wolf, Hall, Crawford Seeger, Copland, Armbrust, Luksan, Björk, Hahn, Vaughan Williams, and Quilter, including 10 world premieres.

Britten – Lachrymae
Wagner – Siegfried Idyll
Wolf – Italian Serenade

Works for mixed small ensembles by Graham Powning, Beethoven, Chausson, Hugo Wolf, Roger Boutry, and Eugéne Bozza.

Junior recitals presented in partial fulfillment of the Bachelor of Music at Cornish College of the Arts.

Music by Bolcom, Copland, Beach, Schumann, Wolf, Rossini, and Respighi.

Beloved art songs by Gabriel Fauré, Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf, and more, and rarities by Alfredo Casella (a contemporary of Respighi), Giorgio Federico Ghedini, and Bruno Maderna.

Wolf – Spanisches Liederbuch ("Spanish songbook")
Turina – Tres Poemas ("Three poems")
W.F. Bach – Polonaise in D major from 12 Polonaises
Schumann – Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13
Schumann – Theme and Etudes I-XI
Ponce – Intermezzo
Prokofiev – Prelude in C major, Op. 12 No. 7
Chopin – Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1

Guy Ropartz – Deux Pieces for Wind Quintet
Antonin Dvorak – Slavonic Dances Op. 46, No. 3
Nino Rota – Concerto for Strings
Franz Schmidt – Zwischenspiel from Opera Notre Dame
Hugo Wolf – Italian Serenade for Strings

Sarcastic, serene, serious, silly, and sublime songs for voice and piano from the Romantic period through Impressionism and the early 20th century.

Wolf – Serenade in G major ("Italian Serenade")
J.S. Bach – "Quia Respexit" from Magnificat
J.S. Bach – “Ich ende behende mein irdisches Leben” from Cantata No. 57
J.S. Bach – Jesu, der du meine Seele BWV 78
Franz Schubert – Shepherd on the Rock
Tchaikovsky – The Seasons Op. 37b (October, November, December)
Tchaikovsky – Nutcracker Suite (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Trepak)

Handel – “Bel piacere” from Agrippina
Handel – “Care selve” from Atalanta
Wolf – In dem Schatten meiner Locken
Wolf – Auch kleine Dinge können uns entzücken
Wolf – Morgentau
Debussy – Le Jet d'Eau
Debussy – Recueillement

G. F. Handel – “Bel piacere” from Agrippina
G. F. Handel – “Care selve” from Atalanta
Hugo Wolf – In dem Schatten meiner Locken
Hugo Wolf – Auch kleine Dinge können uns entzücken
Hugo Wolf – Morgentau
Claude Debussy – Le Jet d'Eau 
Claude Debussy – Recueillement
Michael Isaacson – That Courtesan's Smile 
Howard J. Buss – De La Madra 
Alec Wilder – Piece for Oboe and Improvisatory Percussion
Bill Douglas – Irish Spirit 

Brahms – Piano Trio in B major, Op. 8
Songs by Handel, Wolf & Debussy

Explore the mysteries at the heart of the Christian story, with music from different cultures of the Western world. The program will include works by a host of early composers – Giovanni Gabrieli, Josquin Des Prez, Orlando di Lasso, Giovanni Palestrina, William Byrd and Tomas Luis de Victoria – as well as later works by Hugo Wolf, Francis Poulenc and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Haydn — Andante variations in F minor
Chopin — Etude Op. 10, No. 9
Scriabin — Prelude Op. 11, No. 1
Scriabin — Etude Op. 8, No. 12
Ravel — "Ondine" from Gaspard de la Nuit
Schubert — Fruhlingsglaube
Mendelssohn — Das Madchens Klage
Wolf — Auf einer Wanderung
Reynaldo Hahn — A Chloris
Gounod — Au printemps
Poldowski (Regine Wienawski) — L'heure exquise
Duparc — Phidyle

Mozart – "Martern aller arten" from Abduction from the Seraglio
Beethoven – "O War ich shon" from Fidelio
Weber – "Schelm, halt fest" from Der Freischutz
Weber – "Kommt ein Schlanker" from Der Freischutz
Weber – "Arabien einsam Kind" from Oberon
Wagner – "The Rhinemaiden's Despair" from Götterdämmerung
Humperdinck – Sandman aria & Prayer from Hansel & Gretel
Wolf – "In dem Schatten meiner Locken" from Der Corregidor
Strauss – "Die wiener herrn" from Arabella
Strauss – Trio from Der Rosenkavalier

Schumann – Widmung
Strauss – All Mein Gedanken
Wolf – Elfenleid
Debussy – Zephyr
Debussy – Nuit d'etoiles
Fauré – Claire de Lune
Ferrari – Non t'accostare All'urna
Pergolesi – Se tu M'ami
Jake Heggie – Not in a Silver Casket
Susa – Serenade
Handel – Oh! Had I Jubal's Lyre
Franck – Panis Angelicus
Mozart – S'altro Che Lacrime
Massenet – Obbeissons Quan Leur Voix

Mozart – "Martern aller arten" from Abduction from the Seraglio, K. 384
Beethoven – "O War ich shon" from Fidelio
Weber – "Kommt ein Schlanker" from Der Freischutz
Weber – "Schelm, halt fest" from Der Freischutz
Wagner – "The Rhinemaiden's Despair" from Götterdämmerung
Humperdinck – "Sandman" aria & "Prayer" from Hansel & Gretel
Korngold – "Marietta's Lied" from Die Tode Stadt
Hugo Wolf – "In dem Schatten meiner Locken" from Der Corregidor
R. Strauss – Trio from Der Rosenkavalier
R. Strauss – "Die wiener herrn" from Arabella