THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 44
8pm, Sunday, August 28, 2016
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Program
Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894)
Six Evenings in St. Petersburg, Op.44 (1859)
I. Romance
Carol Reynolds, Piano
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Coronation Ode, Op. 44 (1902)
Finale
Julius Rontgen (1859-1932)
Nine Old Netherlandish Songs (1904)
Part I - Three Marian Songs - III. Sweetest Jesus
The Opus Project Ensemble
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
String Quartet No. 4, Op. 44 (1906)
I. Andante non tanto e comodo
The Opus 44 Quartet
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Two Pieces from" Kuolema", Op. 44 (1906)
I. Waltz Triste
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Indian Fantasy, Op. 44 (1914)
Andante con moto, quasi di Marcia
The Opus Project Ensemble
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
Three [Robert] Browning Songs [1812-1889], Op. 44 (1900)
II. Ah, Love, but a Day!
Mark Alburger, Tenor / Kat Walsh, Violin / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)
Little Symphony in G Major, Op. 44 (1939)
I. Serene
Video
Ede Poldini (1869-1957)
Seven Masks, Op.44 (1910)
VII. Villager
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Two Idylls, Op. 44 (1930)
I. The Honey Thief
Mark Alburger, Tenor / Kat Walsh, Violin / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)
Open-Air Musics, Op. 44 (1904)
I. Mountain Procession
The Opus Project Ensemble
Paul Juon (1872-1940)
Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 44 (1909)
I. Allegro moderato
The Opus 44 Quintet
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Two Poems, Op. 44 (1905)
I. Lento
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Symphony No. 3, Op. 44 (1936)
I. Lento - Allegro moderato
Max Reger (1873-1916)
Ten Little Pieces, Op. 44 (1900)
IX. Fugato
The Opus Project Ensemble
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Seven Part-Songs, Op. 44 (1926, Robert Bridges, 1844-1930)
I. Say, Who Is This?
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Genesis Suite
I. Prelude, Op. 44 (1945)
Video
Ludolf Nielsen (1876-1939)
Three Choral Songs, Op. 44 (1918, Thoger Larsen (1875-1928)
II. Image
Pavel Chesnokov (1877- 1944)
All-Night Vigil, Op. 44 (1915)
Quarter = 80
The Opus Project Ensemble
Alexander Gedike (1877-1957)
At the Crossing, Op. 44 (1933, Vasily Zhukovsky, 1783-1852)
Natashа's Romance (Moderato)
Kat Walsh, Violin / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Suite from "Pulcinella" (1920)
IX. Finale
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Symphony No. 3, Op. 44 (1928)
IV. [Andante mosso] Andante maestoso
The Opus Project Ensemble
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975)
Low Songs, Op. 44 (1917, Stephane Mallarme [1842-1898], 1899)
IX. The Clothes Merchant
Mark Alburger, Tenor / Kat Walsh, Violin / Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Sing und Spielmusik, Op. 44 (1926)
I. Nine Canons : I
Kat Walsh, Violin / Soha Sadeghi, Viola
Howard Hanson (1896-1981)
Song of Democracy, Op. 44 (1956)
Slow and Tender
The Opus Project Ensemble
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Hail, Spain (A Salute to Spain), Op. 44 (1936)
I. Fanfare I
II. March of the Officers - Allegro non troppo
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
A Fadograph of Yestern Scene, Op. 44
(1971, James Joyce, 1882-1941, Finnegans Wake, 1939)
Moderato, cantando liberamente
Video
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Celestial Fantasy, Op. 44 (1935)
Audio
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Spring Symphony, Op. 44 (1949)
Lento, senza rigore
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Pastoral Drone (1982)
Boldly resounding, with precise and sharply-etched rhythm;
like an ancient "open-air" music
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
The Photographer (1983)
I. A Gentleman's Honor
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Helena Suite, Op. 44 (1992)
I. Beautiful Women
Mark Alburger, Tenor / The Opus Project Ensemble
Hussein Al-Naswari (b. 1991)
Variations on a Theme of Erik Satie (2016)
Theme (Gnoissiene No. 1)
I. Rachmaninoff
II. Chopin
III. Liszt
Hussein Al-Naswari, Piano
THE OPUS PROJECT ENSEMBLE
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Bassoon
Tim Machajewski*
Tuba
Aaron Wallace
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Piano
Hussein Al-Naswari
Feona Lee Jones*
Carol Reynolds
Percussion
Hussein Al-Naswari
Ken Crawford
Violin
Kat Walsh*
Viola
Soha Sadeghi*
Cello
Aaron Urton*
* The Opus 44 Quartet and Piano Quintet
The Opus Project presents
OPUS 45: There and Back Again- 8pm, Saturday, September 24, 2016, Center for New Music, 55 Taylor, San Francisco, CA
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 (1880)
Arthur Foote (1853-1937) Serenade in F Major, Op. 45 (1914)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Partsong from the Greek Anthology, Op. 45 (1902)
Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) Piano Trio, Op. 45 (1922)
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) Song, Op. 45 (1908)
Robert Kahn (1865-1952) Clarinet Trio, Op.45 (1906)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) The Demon, Op. 45 (1920)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Piece for Orchestra, Op. 45 (1910)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) The Bridal Choice, Op. 45 (1912)
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) Barcarola, Op. 45 (1900)
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) Elegie und Round Dance, Op. 45 (1940)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) String Quartet in D Major, Op. 45 (1932)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) Orchestral Song, Op. 45 (1912)
Paul Juon (1872-1940) Triple Concerto, Op. 45 (1912)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Piano Piece, Op. 45 (1905)
Alexander Gedike (1873-1957) For the Glory of the Soviet Pilots, Op. 45 (1934)
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 (1940)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) The Morning of the Year, Op. 45 (1927)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) String Trio, Op. 45 (1946)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Things in Themselves, Op. 45 (1928)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) Two Rimbaud Poems, Op.45 (1917)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Hin und Zurück, Op. 45 (1927)
Ernst Krenek (1900-1991) Jonny Spielt Auf, Op. 45 (1927)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) The Return of Maxim, Op. 45 (1937)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Three Songs, Op. 45 (1972)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Armenian Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 45 (1944)
John Cage (1912-1992) Tossed As It Is Untroubled (1943)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) The Little Sweep, Op. 45 (1949)
Jacques Hetu (1938-2010) Serenade Quartet, Op. 45 (1988)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992)
