THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 48
8pm, Saturday, December 17, 2016
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA
Program
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Serenade, Op. 48 (1880)
I. Pezzo en Forma di Sonatina (Andante non troppo)
Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Requiem in D Minor, Op.48 (1877)
I. Introit (Molto largo)
Arthur Foote (1853-1937)
Four Character Pieces after The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám [1048–1131],
Op. 48 (1900, Edward FitzGerald, 1809 - 883)
II. ...the Lion and the Lizard...: Allegro deciso
Jasmine Reyes, Soprano / The Opus Project Ensemble
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Pleading, Op. 48 (1908, Arthur L. Salmon, b. 1865)
Andante
Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937)
Chamber [Flute Trio] Sonata, Op. 48 (1927)
II. Sarabande (Sur le Nom de Louis Fleury): Tres modere
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956)
Les Fleurs du Mal, Op. 48 (1909, Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867)
I. Hymne
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Mark Alburger and Jessica Reyes, Piano
Aaron Urton, Cello
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Five Songs, Op. 48 (1900)
V. Winter Love (Karl Henckell, 1864-1929)
Mark Alburger, Tenor / The Opus Project Ensemble
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Prelude, Theme, and Variations, Op. 48 (1923)
Prelude (Poco adagio e con fantasio)
Mark Alburger, Piano
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
The Captive Queen, Op. 48 (1906, Paavo Emil Cajander, 1846-1913)
Allegro molto moderato
Jasmine Reyes, Soprano / The Opus Project Orchestra
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Concertino, Op. 48 (1918)
Allegretto sostenuto
Alan Kingsley, Flute
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
A Glorious Day, Op. 48 (1932)
Allegro moderato
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)
Selamlik, Op. 48 (1906)
Assez anime
The Opus Project Ensemble
Paul Juon (1872-1940)
Four Piano Miniatures, Op. 48 (1911)
III. Scherzo ("Spook") - Tempo di valzer (Lento)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Four Piano Preludes, Op. 48 (1905)
II. Prelude in C Major: Poetico con delizio
Mark Alburger, Piano
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1874-1958)
Concerto in D Minor ("Accademico") (1925)
I. Allegro pesante
Alan Kingsley, Piccolo / The Opus Project Orchestra
Max Reger (1873-1916)
Seven Songs, Op. 48 (1900)
VI. On the Dorfsee (Oskar Wiener, 1873-1944)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
12 Humbert Wolfe [1885-1940] Songs, Op. 48 (1929)
II. Things Lovelier
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
Three Songs, Op. 48 (1933, Jakob Haringer, 1898-1948)
II. Death (Somewhat slow)
Allan Kingsley, Flute / Mark Alburger, Tenor and Piano
Reinhold Gliere (1875-1956)
12 Pieces, Op. 48 (1912)
VI. Shepherd's Song
Pavel Chesnokov (1877- 1944)
Four Pieces, Op. 48 (1917)
II. Arise, O God
The Opus Project Orchestra
Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
Three Songs (1904)
II. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal (Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892)
Jasmine Reyes, Soprano / Jessica Reyes, Piano
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)
Two Pieces, Op. 48 (1903)
I. Sanctus (Bb Major)
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937)
Three Berceuses, Op. 48 (1922)
I. Toward the Black Pond (Lento)
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Mark Alburger, Piano
The Opus Project Orchestra
Josef Matthais Hauer (1883-1959)
Orchestral Suite No. 7, Op. 48 (1926)
I. Molto ritmico e marcato, alla Marcia
The Opus Project Orchestra
Samuil Feinberg (1890-1962)
Piano Sonata No. 12, Op. 48 (1962)
II. Andante
Mark Alburger, Piano
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Sinfonietta in A Major, Op. 48 (1929)
I. Allegro giocoso
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Konzertmusik, Op. 48 (1930)
I. Lively, agitated halves
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Billy the Kid (1938)
Gun Battle
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
Concerto, Op. 48 (1948)
I. Allegro molto e con brio
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Canzonetta, Op. 48 (1978)
Andante sostenuto
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Piano Concerto ("Lousadzak - Dawn of Light"), Op. 48 (1944)
Slow, noble and majestic
Alan Kingsley, Piccolo / Stardust, Oboe
Mark Alburger, Piano / The Opus Project Ensemble
John Cage (1912-1992)
Prelude for Meditation (1944)
Quarter = 152, Quietly
Mark Alburger, Prepared Piano
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Lachrymae, Reflections on a Song of [John] Dowland [1563-1626], Op. 48 (1937)
Lento
Nansamba Ssesalo, Viola
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Glosses on Themes of Pablo Casals, Op. 48 (1977)
The Opus Project Ensemble
George Crumb (b. 1929)
Federico's Little Songs for Children (1987, Federico Garcia Lorca, 1898-1936)
I. La Senorita del Albanico
Mark Alburger, Tenor and Piano
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)
Desperate Measures (Paganini Variations), Op. 48 (1996)
THEME (Allegro ma non troppo)
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
San Fernando Hub, Op. 48 (1993)
I. Fresno
Audience / The Opus Project Ensemble
Fazil Say (b. 1970)
Black Earth (1997)
Jessica Reyes, Piano
THE OPUS PROJECT ENSEMBLE
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Flute / Piccolo
Alan Kingsley
Oboe / English Horn
Stardust
Trumpet
Michael Cox
Soprano
Jasmine Reyes
Tenor
Mark Alburger
Piano
Mark Alburger
Jessica Reyes
Viola
Nansamba Ssealo
Cello
Aaron Urton
Bass
Michael Stubblefield
The Opus Project presents
OPUS 49: Orations / Ovations
8pm, Saturday, January 28, 2017,
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor, San Francisco, CA
With The Opus Project Orchestra
Karl Goldmark (1830-1915) In Italien Overture, Op. 49 (1904)
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) 1812 Overture, Op. 49 (1880)
Arthur Foote (1853-1937) Flower Songs, Op. 49 (1902)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) The Apostles, Op. 49 (1903)
Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) Basque Fantasy, Op. 49 (1927)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Song, Op. 49 (1901)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) Pan and Syrinx, Op. 49 (1918)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Pohjola's Daughter, Op. 49 (1906)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) Piano Piece, Op. 49 (1933)
Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949) The Zvíkov Imp, Op. 49 (1914)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) The Haunted Palace, Op. 49 (1904)
Paul Juon (1872-1940) Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 49 (1912)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Piano Piece, Op. 49 (1905)
Max Reger (1873-1916) Clarinet Sonata, Op. 49, No. 1 (1900)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) Double Violin Concerto, Op. 49 (1929)
Richard Wetz (1875-1935) String Quartet No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 49 (1924)
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933) Trio for Oboe, Clarinet, and English Horn, Op. 49 (1902)
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) Children's Rhyme for Voice and Piano, Op. 49 (1923)
Ernst Toch (1887-1965) Echo from a Small Town, Op. 49 (1929)
Alexander Gedike (1877-1957) Etude Concertante for Trumpet and Orchestra, Op. 49 (1936)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Gambler Suite, Op. 49 (1931)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op. 49 (1918)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Konzertmusik, Op. 49 (1930)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Concert Champêtre, Harpsichord or Piano & Orchestra (1928)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990) An Outdoor Overture (1938)
Ernst Krenek (1900-1991) Der Diktator, Op. 49 (1926)
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987) Cello Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 49 (1949)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) String Quartet No. 1, Op. 49 (1938)
John Cage (1912-1992) Root of an Unfocus, for Prepared Piano (1944)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op. 49 (1951)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Business As Usual, Op. 49 (1993)
