August 28 - Opus 44: International Fantasies


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)