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PARLANCE PROGRAM NOTES

LE NUOVE MUSICHE: The Baroque Revolution (1550 - 1660)

Samuel Adams (1985)

Bruce Adolphe (1955)

Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)

  • Asturias – November 2, 2014: Sharon Isbin, guitar
     

American Songbook

Juan Arañéz (died c. 1649)

Anton Arensky (1861-1906)

C.P.E. Bach (1714–1788)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Steven Banks (1993)

  • As I Am – November 20, 2022 – Steven Banks, saxophone, Xak Bjerken, piano

  • Come As You Are – November 20, 2022 – Steven Banks, saxophone, Xak Bjerken, piano
     

Amy Barlowe

Jean Barrière (1707-1747)

Béla Bartók (1881–1945)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

Georges Bizet (1838-1875)

  • Chanson d’Avril – February 16, 2020: Ying Fang, soprano; Ken Noda, piano

  • La Coccinelle – February 16, 2020: Ying Fang, soprano; Ken Noda, piano

  • Three Songs – September 27, 2009: Danielle de Niese, soprano; Ken Noda, piano
     

Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)

Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Henri Brod (1799 – 1839)

Max Bruch (1838-1920)

Gaspar Cassadó (1897-1966)

Ernest Chausson (1855-1899)

Gilad Cohen (Born 1980)

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)

John Corigliano (Born 1938)

Archangelo Corelli (1653-1713)

Charles Dancla (1817-1907)

Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772)

  • Le Coucou – November 4, 2018: Lucille Chung, piano
     

Félicien David (1810-1876)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Y. Dobon (1916-1996)

Franz and Karl Doppler (1821-1883; 1825-1900)

John Duke (1899-1984)

  • Three Songs – May 15, 2016: James Morris, bass-baritone; Ken Noda, piano
     

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)

Juan de Encina (1411-1456)

  • Oy Comamos – November 19, 2017: Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
     

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)


English Madrigals

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

César Franck (1822-1890)

  • Sonata in A – November 15, 2015: Jeremy Denk, piano; Stefan Jackiw, violin
     

George Gershwin (1898-1937)

  • Lullaby for string quartet (American) – November 20, 2016: Frank Huang, concertmaster; Sheryl Staples, principal associate concertmaster; Cynthia Phelps, viola; Carter Brey; cello

  • Preludes – November 12, 2023: Angel Blue, soprano; Bryan Wagorn, piano
     

Phillip Glass (Born 1937)

Georg Goltermann (1824-1898)

Enrique Granados (1867–1916)

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

Marc-André Hamelin

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Phillip Houghton

  • Opals – November 19, 2017: Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
     

Jenö Hubay (1858-1937)

Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)

Charles Ives (1874-1954)

Leoš Janáček (1854-1928)

Antônio Carlos Jobím (1927-1994)

Alan Jay Kernis

  • 100 Great Dance Hits for guitar and string quartet – September 25, 2016: Jason Vieaux, guitar; Escher String Quartet
     

Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)

Fritz Kreisler (1875 — 1962)

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

  • Selected Songs – March 29, 2015: Matthew Polenzani, tenor; Ken Noda, piano
     

Federico García Lorca (1898–1936)

Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994)

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

  • Piano Quartet – February 12, 2023 – Gloria Chien, piano, Alexi Kenney, violin, Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola, Mihai Marica, cello

Amanda Maier (1853-1894)

Antonio Martín y Coll (1650-1734)

Jules Massenet (1842-1912)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Olivier Messiaen

  • Quartet for the End of Time - February 18, 2024: Anthony McGill, clarinet; Stefan Jackiw, violin; Nicholas Canellakis, cello; Michael Stephen Brown, piano
     

Pat Metheny

Jesse Montgomery

Xavier Montsalvatge (1912–2002)

Moritz Moszkowski (1854–1925)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Modest Musorgsky (1839-1881)

John Novacek

Mark O’Connor

Hermeto Pascoal

Arvo Pärt

Sam Perkin

  • Freak Show – December 4, 2022 – Sitkovetsky Trio
     

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886)

David Popper (1843-1913)

Baden Powell

  • Samba Novo – November 19, 2017: Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
     

Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)

Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)

  • Crisantemi – October 27, 2019: Quartetto di Cremona

  • Three Arias – November 12, 2023: Angel Blue, soprano; Bryan Wagorn, piano

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943)

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)

  • Quartet in D – October 27, 2019: Quartetto di Cremona
     

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

Chris Rogerson

Frederic Rzewski

Joaquín Rodrigo (1901–1999)

  • Aranjuez, ma pensée – November 2, 2014: Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano; Sharon Isbin, guitar
     

Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868)

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

  • Carnival of the Animals – January 31, 2010: Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson, flute; Stephen Williamson, clarinet; Yoon Kwon, violin; Abraham Appleman, viola; Joel Noyes, cello; Timothy Cobb, bass; Gregory Zuber, xylophone; Gareth Icenogle, narrator

  • Carnival of the Animals – November 4, 2018: Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung, pianos; Yoobin Son, flute; Pascual Martinez-Fortese, clarinet; Sheryl Staples, violin; Qian-Qian Li, violin; Cynthia Phelps, viola; Eileen Moon, cello; Tim Cobb, bass; Barry Centanni, xylophone

  • Romance, Op. 36 for cello and piano – September 24, 2017: Mihai Marica, cello; Michael Brown, piano
     

Pablo Sarasate (1844-1908)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Hermann Schulenburg (1886-1959)

Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)

Spirituals

Johann Strauss (1804–1849)

Richard Strauss (1864–1949)

  • Five Songs – May 15, 2016: James Morris, bass-baritone; Ken Noda, piano

  • Songs – November 12, 2023: Angel Blue, soprano; Bryan Wagorn, piano

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)

  • Suite Italienne – December 15, 2019: Benjamin Beilman, violin; Andrew Tyson, piano

  • The Soldier’s Tale – December 15, 2019: Benjamin Luxon, narrator; Benjamin Beilman, violin; Chris Coletti, trumpet; Demian Austin, trombone; Inn-Hyuck Cho, clarinet; Frank Morelli, bassoon; David J. Grossman, bass; Ian Rosenbaum, percussion; Anni Crofut, dancer-choreographer

  • Three Movements from Petrushka – December 15, 2019: Andrew Tyson, piano
     

Rentarō Taki (1879–1901)

Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909)

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893)

Joaquín’s Turina (1882 - 1949)

  • La oración de torero (The Bullfighter’s Prayer) – October 20, 2024: Modigliani Quartet
     

Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 – 1959)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

  • Concerto in B minor for 4 violins – September 26, 2021: Violin Soloists: James Thompson, Oliver Neubauer, Clara Neubauer, Jeanelle Brierley

  • Flute Concerto in D, RV428, (The Goldfinch) – November 4, 2018: Yoobin Son, solo flute; Sheryl Staples, violin; Qian-Qian Li, violin; Cynthia Phelps, viola; Eileen Moon, cello; Tim Cobb, bass; Alessio Bax, harpsichord

  • Guitar Concerto in D, RV 93 – September 25, 2016: Jason Vieaux, guitar; Escher String Quartet

  • The Four Seasons – September 26, 2021: Violin Soloists: Spring – Danbi Um; Summer – Nathan Meltzer; Autumn – Arnold Sussmann; Winter – Kevin Zhu
     

Melinda Wagner

  • Pan Journal for harp and string quartet – December 18, 2016: Mariko Anraku, harp; Emmanuel Ceysson, harp; David Chan, concertmaster; Catherine Ro, violin; Dov Scheindlin, viola; Rafael Figueroa, cello
     

George Walker (1922-2018)

Anton Webern (1883-1945)

Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)

John Williams / Anderson & Roe

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