On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Candace Magner wrote:
> Hello again Vocalisters, and Happy New Year.
>
> I have been searching for material (yes, even the Archives) to sing with
> string quartet. Of course there is the Barber "Dover Beach" for Baritone and
> SQ, there is Respighi "Il Tramonto" (has anyone done this? I have a
> recording with Renata Scotto I don't particularly like....) and I have found
> lots of very contemporary stuff by unknown (to me) composers.
>
> I am a soprano, but what all is out there that you have done or know?
For Soprano (or "High Voice") and String Quartet:
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Orfeo (with continuo)
Maria Barthelemon: Se pieta da voi non trovo
Virgil Thomson: Stabat Mater
Gabriel Faure: Nine Songs for Soprano and String Quartet; La bonne
chanson, Op. 61 (with piano)
Ernest Chausson: Chanson perpetuelle, Op. 37 (with piano)
Arnold Schoenberg: Streichquartett II (F sharp minor), Op. 10
Harrison Birtwistle: Four songs of autumn
Arthur Shepherd: Triptych
Alban Berg: Lyric Suite (versoin for soprano and string quartet)
Egon Wellesz: Sonette der Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (version for
soprano and string quartet)
Nino Rota: Il Presepio
Ernst Krenek: Zwei Zeitlieder, Op. 215
Johannes Brahms, transcr. Aribert Reimann: Ophelia-Lieder
Robert Schumann, transcr. Aribert Reimann: Sechs Gesaenge, Op. 107
Felix Mendelssohn, transcr. Aribert Reimann: "...oder soll es Tod
bedeuten?"
Franz Schubert, transcr. Aribert Reimann: Mignon-Lieder
Moisei Vainberg: Three Palm Trees, Op. 120
John Tavener: Akhmatova Songs; The World; Many Years
Michael Nyman: The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi; The Piano Sings (from
soundtrack for the film THE PIANO)
Karl Weigl: Five Songs for Soprano and String Quartet, Op. 40 (Weigl also
wrote three songs for alto and S.Q.)
John Harbison: On Awakening; The Rewaking
George Butterworth: Love Blows as the Wind Blows (1914 arr. for soprano
and string quartet)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: From Wenlock Edge (with piano)
Peter Warlock: My lady is a pretty one
Alberto Ginastera: String Quartet No. 5
Gian Carlo Menotti: Nocturne (with harp)
For Mezzo-Soprano (or "Medium Voice") and String Quartet:
Samuel Barber: Dover Beach, Op. 3
Ottorino Respighi: Il Tramonto
Arthur Honegger: Paques a New York
Gerald Finzi: By footpath and stile (written for baritone and S.Q.)
Eugene Goossens: Three Songs, Op. 26
Jack Beeson: A Creole Mystery
Karen Mercedes
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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