Recital and Chamber Music Repertoire (click linked songs to hear a selection after pausing jukebox in left panel)

Sample Programs

Dominick Argento

    Letters from Composers (with guitar)
  1. Frederic Chopin to a friend
  2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his father
  3. Franz Schubert to a friend
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach to the Town Council
  5. Claude Debussy to a friend
  6. Giacomo Puccini to a friend
  7. Robert Schumann to his fiancee
Samuel Barber
  • St. Ita's Vision
  • Sure on this Shining Night
  • The Crucifixion

    Vincenzo Bellini

  • La Ricordanza
  • Ma, rendi pur contento

    Leonard Bernstein

      Two Love Songs (Rilke)
    1. Extinguish my eyes
    2. When my soul touches yours (wma version) ... mp3 version
  • Glitter and be gay (from Candide)

    Mark Blitzstein

  • until and I heard (e.e. cummings)
  • open your heart (e.e. cummings)

    Nadia Boulanger

  • Soir d'hiver

    Brahms

  • Wie Melodien sieht es mir

    Elliott Carter

  • The Rose Family (Robert Frost)

    Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

  • Ninna Nanna (per l'album di una bimba) parole di U.C.T.
  • L'infinito (1921) (Giacomo Leopardi)

      3 Heine-Lieder (1926):
    • . Zu Halle auf dem Markt
    • Sommerabend
    • Am Teetisch
      5 Poesie Romanesche (1946):
    • Sogni
    • Palloncini
    • Piove
    • Grandine
    • Er treno

    Francisco Cavalli

  • Dolce amor, bendato dio

    Marcantonio Cesti (1618-1669)

  • Ah, quanto e' vero (Aria of Venus from "Il Pomo d'Oro")

    Ernest Chausson

      Poemes de l'amour et de la mer
    1. Les fleurs des Eaux
    2. La Mort de l'Amour
    3. Le Temps des lilas (Maurice Bouchor)

    Aaron Copland

  • Heart, we will forget him (Emily Dickinson)
  • Pastorale (from the Kafiristan) WMA file ... as MP3
  • Vieux Poème - translations of Jules Casadesus (Old Poem - words from Chinese by Arthur Waley)
  • Why do they shut me out of Heaven? (Emily Dickinson)

    Costa

  • Aurette che placide

    Claude Debussy

    Fêtes galantes pour Madame Vasnier (1882)
    1. Pantomime (Paul Verlaine)
    2. Clair de Lune (1re version - Paul Verlaine)
    3. Fantôches
    4. En sourdine
    5. Mandoline
    6. Pierrot (Theodore de Banville)

    Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

  • (Songs my mother taught me) Als die alte Mutter, op. 55 (Adolf Heyduk)

    Manuel de Falla (with piano or *With guitar)

      Siete canciones
    1. El pano moruno
    2. Seguidilla Murciana
    3. Asturiana
    4. Jota
    5. Nana
    6. Cancion
    7. Polo

    Stephen Foster

  • Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
  • Beautiful Dreamer

    Bernardo Gaffi (17th cent.)

  • Luci vezzose

    Federico Garcia Lorca (with guitar)

  • Anda, jaleo
  • Los pelegrintos

    Enrique Granados

      Canciones amatorias (revision de Rafael Ferrer)
    1. Descubrase el pensamiento de mi secreto cuidado
    2. Mananica era
    3. Llorad, corazon, que teneis razon
    4. Mira que soy nina, amor, dejame!
    5. No lloreis, ojuelos
    6. Iban al pinar
    7. Gracia mia

    Charles Griffes

    1. Le Jardin - The Garden (Oscar Wilde)
    2. Impression du Matin - Early Morning in London (Oscar Wilde)
    3. La Mer - The Sea (Oscar Wilde)
    4. Le Reveillon - Dawn (Oscar Wilde)

    Richard Hagemann

  • At the Well (with piano or orchestra)(Rabindranath Tagore)
  • Do not go, my Love


    Hindemith
    Das Marienleben

    1. Geburt Mariae
    2. Die Darstellung Mariaeim Tempel
    3. Mariae Verkuendigung
    4. Mariae Heimsuchung
    5. Argwohn Josephs
    6. Verkuendigung Ueber Diehirten
    7. Geburt Christi
    8. Rast Auf Der Flucht Nach Aegypten
    9. Von Der Hochzeit Zu Kana
    10. Vor Der Passion
    11. Pieta
    12. Stillung Mariae Mit Demauferstanden
    13. Vom Tode Mariae
    14. Thema Mit Variationen
    15. Doch Vor Dem Apostel Thomas

    Lee Hoiby

  • Lady of the Harbor (Emma Lazarus- from The New Colossus 1883)
  • The Serpent (Theodore Roethke)

    Roy Harris

  • Fog (Carl Sandburg)

    Korngold

      from Lied der Abschied
    • Sterbelied

    Nina Kotova
      Lyrica cycle

    Franz Liszt
    Three Songs from Schiller's William Tell:

    1. Der Fischerknabe (first version)
    2. Der Hirt
    3. Der Alpenjaeger
    • Erste Sonett - Pace non trovo (Petrarca)

    Joseph Marx

  • Und gestern hat Er mir Rosen gebracht
  • Süss, düftenden Lindenblüte
      From Italienischen Liederbuch (1912):
    • Liebe (1907)
    • Die Liebste spricht
    • Die Begegnung
    • Die tote Braut
    • Die Verlassene
    • Wofür
    • Venetianisches Wiegenlied

    Giovanni Battista Mazzaferrata

  • Presto, presto io m'innamoro

    Olivier Messiaen

  • Pourquoi
      Chants de terre et du ciel
    1. Bail avec Mi
    2. Antienne de Silence
    3. Dans du bébé-pilule
    4. Arc-en-ciel d'innocence
    5. Minuit pile et face
    6. Résurrection

    Darius Milhaud

      Chansons de Ronsard
    • A une fontaine
    • A Cupidon
    • Tais-toi, babillarde
    • Dieu vous garde
      Deux airs - (extraits de "Bolivar")
    • Air de Manuela (Jules Supervielle)
    • Berceuse (Jules Supervielle)

    Melisio Morales

  • La farfalletta

    John Musto (1954-)

      Quiet Songs
    1. maggie and milly and molly and may (e.e. cummings)
    2. Intermezzo (Amy Elizabeth Burton)
    3. Quiet Song (Eugene O'Neill)
    4. Christmas Carol {To Jesus on His Birthday} (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
    5. Palm Sunday: Naples (Arthur Symons)
    6. Lullaby (Leonie Adams)

    Prince Josef Poniatowski

  • All'amante lontano - 7.13MB MP3 file
    T'amo, bell'idol mio

    Francis Poulenc

      Fiançailles pour rires (Louise de Vilmorin)
    1. La Dame Andre'
    2. Dans l'herbe
    3. Il vole
    4. Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant
    5. Violon
    6. Fleurs
  • C
  • Les Chemins de l'Amour (Jean Anouilh)

    André Previn

      Four Songs (with cello and piano)
    1. Mercy
    2. Stones
    3. Shelter
    4. Lace

    Sergei Rachmaninoff

  • Oh , never sing to me again (Nye poi krasavitsa..) (Pushkin) Op. 4
  • Au! (K. Balmont) Op. 38, n. 6
  • Dream (Son) (F. Sologoub) Op. 38, n.5
  • The Answer (Victor Hugo - L. Mey)
  • The harvest of sorrow (Tolstoy)
  • Believe it Not! (Tolstoy)
  • The Muse (Musa) (A. Pushkin)
  • The Storm (Pushkin)
  • What wealth of rapture (Kakoye stastye) (A. Feth)
  • Dissonance (Polonsky)

    Ned Rorem

  • Thoughts of a young Girl (a capella)
  • Ferry Me Across the Water(Christina Rossetti)

    Kaija Saariaho

  • Die Aussicht (with piano, violin, cello)

    Savinelli
    T'amo bell'idol mio

    Dmitri Shostakovich

  • Seven Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok Op. 127 (for piano, violin + cello)

    Franz Schubert

  • Rastlose Liebe (Goethe)
  • Gretchen am Spinnrade (Goethe)
  • Du bist die Ruh'
  • Ständchen
  • An die Musik

    Juan de Lima Serqueira (165?-1727?)

  • Tono humano solo (with guitar) - "Todo es amor"

    Richard Strauss

      Brentano Lieder, Op. 68
    1. An die Nacht
    2. Ich wollt' ein Strausslein binden
    3. Saeussle, liebe Myrte
    4. Als mir dein Lied erklang
    5. Amor
    6. Lied der Frauen
      Vier Letzte Lieder (with piano or with orchestra)
    1. Frühling (Hermann Hesse)
    2. September (Hermann Hesse)
    3. Beim Schlafengehn (Hermann Hesse)
    4. Im Abendrot (Joseph von Eichendorff)
  • Kling!, Op. 48, no3
  • Morgen, Op. 27, no4
  • Cäcilie, Op. 27, no2
  • Breit' ueber mein Haupt, Op. 19, no2

    John Tavener

      Akhmatova Songs (with cello)

    Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky

  • If only I had known (Kabbi snalaya...) Op. 47 (A.K. Tolstoy)
  • Was I not a little blade of grass (Ya livploye da nye travushka bila..) Op. 47 (Surikov)
  • Last Night (A.S. Khomyakov)
  • Lullaby (Kolibel'naya pesnya)(A.N. Maikov)
  • Alone again, as before (Snova, kak pryezhdye, adin) (Ratgauza)

    Joaquin Turina

      Triptico
    1. Farruca (Campoamor)
    2. Cantilena (Duque de Rivas)
    3. Madrigal (Duque de Rivas)

      Tres poemas
    1. Olas gigantes
    2. Tu pupila es azul
      4. Besa el aire

    Ralph Vaughan Williams

      William Blake Songs (1757-1827) - with Oboe
    1. Infant Joy
    2. A Poison Tree
    3. The Piper
    4. London
    5. The Lamb
    6. The Shepherd
    7. Ah! Sun-flower! weary of time
    8. Cruelty has a Human Heart
      9. The Divine Image Eternity

    William Walton

      Anon. in Love (with guitar)(duration 9 1/2 minutes)
    1. Fain would I change that note
    2. O stay, sweet love
    3. Lady, when I behold the roses
    4. My love in her attire
    5. I gave her Cakes and I gave her Ale
    6. To couple is a custom

    Anton Webern

      Drei Lieder (fur Gesang, es-klarinette und gitarre Op. 18)
    1. Schatzerl klein
    2. Erlosung
    3. Ave Regina

    Hugo Wolf

  • Die Bekehrte
  • Die Spröde
  • Verborgenheit
  • In dem Schatten meiner Locken
  • Auf ein Altes Bild

    Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

      Quattro Rispetti, Opus 12:
    1. Quando ti vidi a quel canto apparire
    2. O guarda, guarda quel nobile augello
    3. Angiolo delicato fresco e bello
    4. Sie benedetto chi fece lo mondo!


    Sample Recital Programs


    Example Recital with guitar

    Schwabacher Debut Recital in San Francisco - Program - March 24, 2003

    Brussels Recital Program, April 19, 2003


    Chicago Cultural Center Recital, June 2003


    Tuscan Sun Festival/Bruges Concertgebouw Concerts 2004

    Theatre de la Monnaie, February 2005

    Santiago de Compostela, October 2005


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