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Steve Bryant’s Concert Program Notes
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Through the decades of producing musical plays, concerts and related events, Steve Bryant has researched and written the program notes for scores of, well, um, scores. Click on the concert titles below to see the texts read by concert-goers as they listened to the musical works.
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- Questions and Answers from a Countertenor
male alto singing — history and technique
- Baroque Marian Music
Salve Regina in A minor - Domenico Scarlatti
Stabat Mater - Antonio Vivaldi
Stabat Mater - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
- Poetry in Song
Three Quartets - Josef Haydn
Alles hat seine Zeit
Die Beredsamkeit
Warnung
Journey of the Magi (Canticle IV, Op. 86) - Benjamin Britten
Three Quartets - Johannes Brahms
Wechsellied zum Tanze (Op. 31, No. 1)
Der Abend (Op. 64, No. 2)
Warum (Op. 92, No. 4)
From Jewish Folk Poetry (Op. 79) - Dmitri Schostakovich
La Passeggiata - Gioachino Rossini
- Love Songs Carnal & Divine
Occhi, perchè piangete? - Agostino Steffani
Conservate, raddoppiate - Georg Friedrich Händel
“Mercè,” grido piangendo Luci serene e chiare - Carlo Gesualdo
O Jesu mi dulcissime - Girolamo Frescobaldi
Taci Armelin - Claudio Monteverdi
Non havea Febo ancora (in three parts)- Claudio Monteverdi
Perchè t’en fuggi o Fillide - Claudio Monteverdi
Tanti strale - Georg Friedrich Händel
Sonetto spirituale: Maddalena alla Croce - Girolamo Frescobaldi
Sotto il tremulo ciel (from Medea) - Pier Francesco Cavalli
Venite venite - Claudio Monteverdi
O bone Jesu - Claudio Monteverdi
Pur ti miro (from Poppea) - Claudio Monteverdi (attr.)
O quam tu pulcra es - Alessandro Grandi
Dolcissimo uscignolo - Claudio Monteverdi
- Orfeo ed Euridice - C.W. Gluck
- 3 CounterTenors Celebrate Purcell
Sound the Trumpet (Come, Ye Sons of Art, Away) - Henry Purcell
Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell - John Blow
Dialogue Between Coridon and Mopsa (The Fairy Queen) - Purcell
Cloe Found Amintas - Blow
Triumph Victorious Love (Dioclesian) - Purcell
Strike the Viol (Come, Ye Sons of Art, Away) - Purcell
One Charming Night (The Fairy Queen) - Purcell
From Rosy Bowers (Don Quixote, Part III) - Purcell
Ah Heav’n! What is’t I Hear? - Blow
Hosanna to the Highest - Purcell
O sole mio - Eduardo di Capua
Indian Love Call - Rudolf Friml, O. Harback, O. Hammerstein II (encore song)
- Courtly Love and The Kingdom of God
Ave Maris Stella - John Dunstable (1370-1453)
Quam Pulcra Es - John Dunstable
Sancta Maria - John Dunstable
Edi Beo Thu Hevene Quene - Anonymous (14th century)
Alas Departynge is Ground of Woo - Anonymous (15th century)
Sweet Kate - Robert Jones
Ah Robyn, Gentil Robyn - William Cornysh (died c. 1523)
Doe You Not Know - Thomas Morley (1557-1602)
Cease Mine Eyes - Thomas Morley
Come Shepherd Swain - John Wilbye (1574-1628)
As Fair as Morn - John Wilbye
Cloe Found Amintas - John Blow (1649-1708)
With that Sublime Celestial Lay - Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Upon a Quiet Conscience - Henry Purcell
Blessed is He - Henry Purcell
Hosanna to the Highest - Henry Purcell
Hear Me, O Lord - Henry Purcell
Triumph Victorious Love - Henry Purcell
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