THE OPUS PROJECT
Opus 45
8pm, Saturday, September 24, 2016
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA
Program
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
A German Requiem, Op. 45 (1868)
IV. How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 (1880)
Part I - Andante un poco rubato
The Opus Project Ensemble
Arthur Foote (1853-1937)
Serenade in F Major, Op. 45 (1914)
II. Air
Mark Alburger, Piano
Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Partsong from the Greek Anthology, Op. 45 (1902)
I. Yea, Cast Me from Heights of Mountains
The Opus Project Ensemble
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935)
Ten [William] Shakespeare [1564-1616] Sonnets, Op. 45 (1913)
I. Moderato assai
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Mark Alburger, Piano
Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937)
Piano Trio, Op. 45 (1922)
I. Agite de mouvement et de sentiment
The Opus 45 Piano Trio
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956)
Four Songs, Op. 45 (1908)
I. In the Village (Nicolay Negrasov, 1821-1878)
The Opus Project Ensemble
Robert Kahn (1865-1952)
Clarinet Trio, Op. 45 (1906)
I. Allegro
The Opus 45 Clarinet Trio
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Piano Suite ("Luciferiske"), Op. 45 (1920)
III. Molto Adago e patetico
Mark Alburger, Piano
Jan Sibelius (1865-1957)
Two Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 45 (1910)
I. The Dryad
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
"The Bridal Choice" Suite, Op. 45 (1912)
I. Ghostly Music
The Opus Project Ensemble
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Barcarola, Op. 45 (1900)
Con moto
Mark Alburger, Piano
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949)
Elegie und Round Dance, Op. 45 (1940)
I. Elegie
Video
Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Quartet in D Major, Op. 45 (1932)
I. Allegro
The Opus 45 Quartet
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)
Four Songs, Op. 45 (1912)
III. Fleurs Decloses (Catulle Blée, b. 1869)
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Mark Alburger, Piano
Paul Juon (1872-1940)
Triple Concerto ("Episodes Concertantes"), Op. 45 (1912)
I Allegro moderato
Mark Alburger, Piano / The Opus Project Ensemble
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Piano Piece, Op. 45 (1905)
III. Prelude
Mark Alburger, Piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 (1940)
Non allegro
The Opus Project Ensemble
Max Reger (1873-1916)
Six Piano Intermezzi, Op. 45 (1900)
VI. As fast as possible
Mark Alburger, Piano
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
String Trio, Op. 45 (1946)
Quarter = 60
The Opus 45 Trio
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920)
Ancora piu mosso...
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Two Pieces ("Things in Themselves"), Op. 45 (1928)
I. Allegro moderato
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)
Hin und Zurück, Op. 45 (1927)
Very Lively
Ernst Krenek (1900-1991)
Jonny Spielt Auf, Op. 45 (1927)
Part I - Lento assai, Poco piu mosso
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
A Dinner Engagement, Op. 45 (1954)
Allegro moderato
Boris Blacher (1903-1975)
Study in Pianissimo, Op. 45 (1954)
Allegro
The Opus Project Ensemble
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
Piano Sonata No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 45 (1945)
Allegro moderato. Festamente
Feona Lee Jones, Piano
Benjamin Frankel (1906 -1973)
Viola Concerto, Op. 45 (1967)
I. Andante: Allegro Moderato
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
The Return of Maxim, Op. 45 (1937)
Introduction
Video
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Three Songs, Op. 45 (1972)
I. Now I Have Fed and Eaten Up the Rose (James Joyce, 1882-1942)
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Mark Alburger, Piano
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Armenian Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 45 (1944)
Fast but majestic
The Opus Project Ensemble
John Cage (1912-1992)
Tossed As It Is Untroubled (1943)
Quarter = 152 ca.
Mark Alburger, Prepared Piano
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
The Little Sweep, Op. 45 (1949)
I. The Sweep's Song (Moderate; heavy)
The Opus Project Ensemble and Audience
Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987)
Piano Sonatina No. 2, Op. 45 (1950)
With motion
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Puneña No. 2 ("Hommage à Paul Sacher"), Op. 45 (1972)
I. Harawi: Adagio senza rigore di tempo e rubato
Mark Alburger, Piano
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Flute Concerto No. 1, Op. 45 (1954)
I. Allegro con energico
Claude Ballif (1924-2004)
Prière du Seigneur, Op. 45 (1972, Thomas More, 1478-1535)
Video
Robert Muczynski (1929-2010)
Wind Quintet, Op. 45 (1985)
I. Allegro risoluto
The Opus Project Quintet
Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Akhnaten (1983)
Hymn: Psalm 137
The Opus Project Ensemble
Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937)
Toccata ("Motive Force"), Op. 45 (1985)
Video
Jacques Hetu (1938-2010)
Serenade, Op. 45 (1988)
I. Prelude (Andante)
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Mark Alburger, Piano
Mark Alburger (b. 1957)
Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992)
Act II: Tartsong
The Opus Project Ensemble
THE OPUS PROJECT ENSEMBLE
Mark Alburger Music Director and Conductor
Flute
Alan Kingsley*
Clarinet
Peter Brown*
Bassoon
Michael Garvey*
Tuba
Aaron Wallace
Tenor / Piano
Mark Alburger*
Percussion
Ken Crawford
Violin
Kristen Kline*
* The Opus 45 Trios and Quartet
The Opus Project presents
OPUS 46: Night of the Living
8pm, Saturday, October 29, 2016
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor, San Francisco, CA
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) French Suite No. 6: III. Sarabande (1725)
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46 (1888)
Arthur Foote (1853-1937) O Fear the Immortals, Ye Children, Op. 46 (1900)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Concert Allegro, Op. 46 (1901)
Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) Cello Sonata, Op. 46 (1923)
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) The Seasons, Op. 46 (1908)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Song, Op. 46 (1900)
Robert Kahn (1865-1952) Song after Paul Heyse's "Jungbrunnen", Op. 46 (1906)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Pelleas and Melisande, Op. 46 (1905)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) Harlequin Rondo, Op. 46 (1915)
Erik Satie (1866-1925) Piece in the Form of a Pear (1903)
Amy Beach (1867-1944) Sylvania, Op. 46 (1900)
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) Allegro de Concierto, Op. 46 (1904)
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) Symphony in C Major, Op. 46 (1940)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) Prelude, Op. 46 (1934)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) Funeral Hymn, Op. 46 (1932)
Paul Juon (1872-1940) Rogue Ways, Op. 46 (1911)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Scherzo, Op. 46 (1905)
Alexander Gedike (1873-1957) Easy Piano Piece, Op. 46 (1934)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) Chrissemas Day in the Morning, Op. 46 (1926)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46 (1947)
Richard Wetz (1875-1935) Cross-Driver Song, Op. 46 (1910)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) The Prodigal Son, Op. 46 (1929)
Darius Milhaud (1892-1975) String Quartet No. 4, Op.46 (1918)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963) Kammermusik No. 6, Op. 46(1927)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Four Pushkin Romances, Op. 46 (1937)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Ballade, Op. 46 (1977)
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Let Us Love One Another, Op. 46 (1941)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Amo Ergo Sum, Op. 46 (1949)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Iliad Song, Op. 46 (1992)
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Amazingly, annother astounding performance, the day (196th of summer, zooming up 13 to 97... 137 / 90 days at or beyond 80 / 90) --
Pleasant Hill, 92
Pinole, 79 (the inverse of local)
-- beginning with the transporting transit, and concluding with preparation for Opus 46 above and composition page 10 To Those Who Come After: Three Elegies, Op. 256: III: You Who'll Be Borne Up Out of the Flood...
