Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts – Past Concerts

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — Ballade for Orchestra in A minor, Op. 33
Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
Antonín Dvořák — Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88, B. 163

Isaac Albéniz — Iberia (Book I)
Igor Stravinsky — Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka ("Three Movements from Petrushka") for piano
George Gershwin — "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess (arr. Fazıl Say)
George Gershwin — Rhapsody in Blue
Art Tatum / Vincent Youmans — Tea for Two
Hiromi Uehara — The Tom and Jerry Show ("Green Tea Farm")

Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110
Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111

Johann Sebastian Bach — Italienisches Konzert ("Italian Concerto"), BWV 971 (part of 'Italian Concerto')
Igor Stravinsky — Selected works (part of 'Candleflowerdance')
Samuel Barber — Excursions, Op. 20 (part of 'Excursions')
Felix Mendelssohn — Selected works (part of 'Words')

Antonio Vivaldi — Dorilla in Tempe, RV 709 ("Dell' aura al sussarrar")
Antonio Vivaldi — The Four Seasons
Antonio Vivaldi — L'Olimpiade, RV 725 ("Siam navi all'onde algenti")
Marin Marais — Alcyone (Suite des airs à joüer) ("Tempête" & "Marche pour les Matelots")
George Frideric Handel — Giulio Cesare in Egitto ("Julius Caesar in Egypt"), HWV 17 ("Da Tempeste il legno infranto")

Time for Three, the self-proclaimed "classically trained garage band"—comprised of three musicians who are equally instrumentalists and sin…

Program includes works by Hale Smith, Traditional, Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Giacomo Puccini, Damien Sneed, George Gershwin, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Richard Strauss, Aaron Copland, Henry Thacker "Harry" Burleigh, Margaret Bonds, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Henry Purcell — The Fairy Queen, Z. 629

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — The Seasons, Op. 37a (37bis) (selections)
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Prelude in B minor, Op. 32, No. 10
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Prelude in G-sharp minor, Op. 32, No. 12
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Prelude in D major, Op. 32, No. 4
Modest Mussorgsky — Pictures at an Exhibition

Maurice Ravel — Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, M. 77
Eugène Ysaÿe — Poème élégiaque, Op. 12
Lili Boulanger — Two Pieces for Violin and Piano (Deux Morceaux)
Georges Bizet / Franz Waxman — Carmen Fantasie for violin and orchestra

Chick Corea — Children's Song No. 12
Paul Wiancko — Vox Petra
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh — Rəqs
François Couperin — Les Barricades Mystérieuses ("The Mysterious Barricades")
Monica Mugan / Dan Trueman — Ricercar
Paul Wiancko — When The Night
Terry Riley — Good Medicine

Quenton Xavier Blache — Habari Gani
Javier Farias — Abran Paso
Andrea Casarrubios — Herencia
Adolphus Hailstork — Sonata Da Chiesa ("Dona Nobis Pacem" & "Exultate")
Jessie Montgomery — Divided
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson — Sinfonietta No. 1

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Claude Debussy — Danses sacrée et profane, L. 103
Claude Debussy — Arabesque No. 1, L. 66, No. 1 (trans. Bridget Kibbey)
Claude Debussy — "I. Prélude" from Suite Bergamasque, L. 75
Gabriel Fauré — Une châtelaine en sa tour, Op. 110
Maurice Ravel — String Quartet in F major
André Caplet — Conte fantastique

Program includes works by Barton Green, Various, John Stafford Smith, John Philip Sousa, Jerry Bock, Robert Sheldon, Clifton Williams, Giacomo Puccini, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Baroque flutist Emi Ferguson is joined by continuo band Ruckus in a wild technicolor romp through some of J.S. Bach’s most playful & transcendent works, reimagined & realized for 21st-c. fans of 18th-c. performance practice.

The music of Claude Debussy, Joseph Canteloube, Francis Poulenc, Michel Legrand, and Charles Trénet provide the fuel for a superb quintet of young artists selected by New York Festival of Song Artistic Director Steven Blier.

Robert Schumann’s complete Dichterliebe; works by John Dowland, Charles Brown, Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, Ernest Charles, & William Bolcom; & a set of spirituals.