Laura Claycomb Putting the color into coloratura

Dominick Argento Letters from Composers

(with guitar)
1. Frederic Chopin to a friend
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to his father
3. Franz Schubert to a friend
4. Johann Sebastian Bach to the Town Council
5. Claude Debussy to a friend
6. Giacomo Puccini to a friend
7. Robert Schumann to his fiancee

Samuel Barber 

• St. Ita’s Vision
• Sure on this Shining Night
• The Crucifixion

Vincenzo Bellini 

• La Ricordanza
• Ma, rendi pur contento

Leonard BernsteinTwo Love Songs (Rilke)

1. Extinguish my eyes
2. When my soul touches yours (wma version) … mp3 version

• Glitter and be gay (from Candide)

Mark Blitzstein 

1. until and I heard (e.e. cummings)
2. open your heart (e.e. cummings)

Nadia Boulanger

1. Soir d’hiver

Brahms

• Wie Melodien sieht es mir

Elliott Carter

• The Rose Family (Robert Frost)

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco 

• Ninna Nanna (per l’album di una bimba) parole di U.C.T.
• L’infinito (1921) (Giacomo Leopardi)
• 3 Heine-Lieder (1926):.
• Zu Halle auf dem Markt
• Sommerabend
• Am Teetisch

5 Poesie Romanesche

 (1946):
• Sogni
• Palloncini
• Piove
• Grandine
• Er treno

Francisco Cavalli 

• Dolce amor, bendato dio

Marcantonio Cesti (1618-1669)

• Ah, quanto e’ vero (Aria of Venus from “Il Pomo d’Oro”)

Ernest Chausson Poemes de l’amour et de la mer

1. Les fleurs des Eaux
2. La Mort de l’Amour
3. Le Temps des lilas (Maurice Bouchor)

Aaron Copland

• Heart, we will forget him (Emily Dickinson)
• Pastorale (from the Kafiristan)
• Vieux Poème – translations of Jules Casadesus (Old Poem – words from Chinese by Arthur Waley)
• Why do they shut me out of Heaven? (Emily Dickinson)

Claude Debussy 

• Apparition (Stephane Mallarme)
• Fêtes galantes

Fêtes galantes pour Madame Vasnier (1882)

1. Pantomime (Paul Verlaine)
2. Clair de Lune (1re version – Paul Verlaine)
3. Fantôches
4. En sourdine
5. Mandoline
6. Pierrot (Theodore de Banville)

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

• (Songs my mother taught me) Als die alte Mutter, op. 55 (Adolf Heyduk)

Manuel de Falla (with piano or *With guitar) Siete canciones

1. El pano moruno
2. Seguidilla Murciana
3. Asturiana
4. Jota
5. Nana
6. Cancion
7. Polo

Stephen Foster 

• Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
• Beautiful Dreamer

Bernardo Gaffi (17th cent.)

• Luci vezzose

Federico Garcia Lorca (with guitar)

• Anda, jaleo
• Los pelegrintos

Enrique Granados Canciones amatorias

(revision de Rafael Ferrer)
1. Descubrase el pensamiento de mi secreto cuidado
2. Mananica era
3. Llorad, corazon, que teneis razon
4. Mira que soy nina, amor, dejame!
5. No lloreis, ojuelos
6. Iban al pinar
7. Gracia mia

Charles Griffes

1. Le Jardin – The Garden (Oscar Wilde)
2. Impression du Matin – Early Morning in London (Oscar Wilde)
3. La Mer – The Sea (Oscar Wilde)
4. Le Reveillon – Dawn (Oscar Wilde)

Richard Hagemann 

• At the Well (with piano or orchestra)(Rabindranath Tagore)
• Do not go, my Love

Hindemith  Das Marienleben

1. Geburt Mariae
2. Die Darstellung Mariaeim Tempel
3. Mariae Verkuendigung
4. Mariae Heimsuchung
5. Argwohn Josephs
6. Verkuendigung Ueber Diehirten
7. Geburt Christi
8. Rast Auf Der Flucht Nach Aegypten
9. Von Der Hochzeit Zu Kana
10. Vor Der Passion
11. Pieta
12. Stillung Mariae Mit Demauferstanden
13. Vom Tode Mariae
14. Thema Mit Variationen
15. Doch Vor Dem Apostel Thomas

Lee Hoiby 

• Lady of the Harbor (Emma Lazarus- from The New Colossus1883)
• The Serpent (Theodore Roethke)

Roy Harris

• Fog (Carl Sandburg)

Korngold
from Lied der Abschied – Sterbelied

Nina Kotova Lyrica cycle

Franz Liszt  Three Songs from Schiller’s William Tell:

1. Der Fischerknabe (first version)
2. Der Hirt
3. Der Alpenjaeger

• Erste Sonett – Pace non trovo (Petrarca)

Joseph Marx 

• Und gestern hat Er mir Rosen gebracht
• Süss, düftenden Lindenblüte

From
Italienischen Liederbuch

 (1912):
• Liebe (1907)
• Die Liebste spricht
• Die Begegnung
• Die tote Braut
• Die Verlassene
• Wofür
• Venetianisches Wiegenlied

Giovanni Battista Mazzaferrata 

• Presto, presto io m’innamoro

Olivier Messiaen 

Pourquoi
Chants de terre et du ciel

1. Bail avec Mi
2. Antienne de Silence
3. Dans du bébé-pilule
4. Arc-en-ciel d’innocence
5. Minuit pile et face
6. Résurrection

Darius Milhaud Chansons de Ronsard

1. A une fontaine
2. A Cupidon
3. Tais-toi, babillarde
4. Dieu vous garde

Deux airs- (extraits de “Bolivar”)

• Air de Manuela (Jules Supervielle)
• Berceuse (Jules Supervielle)

Melisio Morales 

• La farfalletta

John Musto (1954-) Quiet Songs

1. maggie and milly and molly and may (e.e. cummings)
2. Intermezzo (Amy Elizabeth Burton)
3. Quiet Song (Eugene O’Neill)
4. Christmas Carol {To Jesus on His Birthday} (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
5. Palm Sunday: Naples (Arthur Symons)
6. Lullaby (Leonie Adams)

Prince Josef Poniatowski 

• All’amante lontano
• T’amo, bell’idol mio

Francis Poulenc Fiancailles pour rires (Louise de Vilmorin)

1. La Dame Andre’
2. Dans l’herbe
3. Il vole
4. Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant
5. Violon
6. Fleurs

• Les Chemins de l’Amour (Jean Anouilh)

André Previn  Four Songs

(with cello and piano)
1. Mercy
2. Stones
3. Shelter
4. Lace

Sergei Rachmaninoff 

• Oh , never sing to me again (Nye poi krasavitsa..) (Pushkin) Op.4
• Au! (K. Balmont) Op. 38, n. 6
• Dream (Son) (F. Sologoub) Op. 38, n.5
• The Answer (Victor Hugo – L. Mey)
• The harvest of sorrow (Tolstoy)
• Believe it Not! (Tolstoy)
• The Muse (Musa) (A. Pushkin)
• The Storm (Pushkin)
• What wealth of rapture (Kakoye stastye) (A. Feth)
• Dissonance (Polonsky)

Ned Rorem 

• Thoughts of a young Girl (a capella)
• Ferry Me Across the Water(Christina Rossetti)

Lauro Rossi

• Aurette che placide

Kaija Saariaho 

• Die Aussicht (with piano, violin, cello)

Savinelli 
T’amo bell’idol mio

Dmitri Shostakovich 

Seven Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok Op. 127 (for piano, violin + cello)

Franz Schubert 

• Rastlose Liebe (Goethe)
• Gretchen am Spinnrade (Goethe)
• Du bist die Ruh’
• Ständchen
• An die Musik

Juan de Lima Serqueira (165?-1727?)

• Tono humano solo (with guitar) – “Todo es amor”

Richard Strauss Brentano Lieder, Op. 68

1. An die Nacht
2. Ich wollt’ ein Strausslein binden
3. Saeussle, liebe Myrte
4. Als mir dein Lied erklang
5. Amor
6. Lied der Frauen

Vier Letzte Lieder

(with piano or with orchestra)
1. Frühling (Hermann Hesse)
2. September (Hermann Hesse)
3. Beim Schlafengehn (Hermann Hesse)
4. Im Abendrot (Joseph von Eichendorff)

• Kling!, Op. 48, no3
• Morgen, Op. 27, no4
• Cäcilie, Op. 27, no2
• Breit’ ueber mein Haupt, Op. 19, no2

John Tavener  Akhmatova Songs
(with cello)

Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky 

• If only I had known (Kabbi snalaya…) Op. 47 (A.K. Tolstoy)
• Was I not a little blade of grass (Ya livploye da nye travushka bila..) Op. 47 (Surikov)
• Last Night (A.S. Khomyakov)
• Lullaby (Kolibel’naya pesnya)(A.N. Maikov)
• Alone again, as before (Snova, kak pryezhdye, adin) (Ratgauza)

Joaquin Turina Triptico

1. Farruca (Campoamor)
2. Cantilena (Duque de Rivas)
3. Madrigal (Duque de Rivas)

Tres poemas

1. Olas gigantes
2. Tu pupila es azul
3. Besa el aire

Ralph Vaughan Williams  William Blake Songs (1757-1827) – with Oboe

1. Infant Joy
2. A Poison Tree
3. The Piper
4. London
5. The Lamb
6. The Shepherd
7. Ah! Sun-flower! weary of time
8. Cruelty has a Human Heart

• The Divine Image Eternity

William Walton  Anon. in Love (with guitar)(duration 9 1/2 minutes)

1. Fain would I change that note
2. O stay, sweet love
3. Lady, when I behold the roses
4. My love in her attire
5. I gave her Cakes and I gave her Ale
6. To couple is a custom

Anton Webern Drei Lieder (fur Gesang, es-klarinette und gitarre Op. 18)

1. Schatzerl klein
2. Erlosung
3. Ave Regina

Hugo Wolf 

• Die Bekehrte
• Die Spröde
• Verborgenheit
• In dem Schatten meiner Locken
• Auf ein Altes Bild

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari – Quattro Rispetti Opus 12:

1. Quando ti vidi a quel canto apparire
2. O guarda, guarda quel nobile augello
3. Angiolo delicato fresco e bello
4. Sie benedetto chi fece lo mondo!

Sample Recital Programs

San Francisco Chamber Music Recital 

Early Recital 

Recital in Houston 

Example Recital with guitar

Schwabacher Debut Recital in San Francisco – Program – March 24, 2003

Brussels Recital Program, April 19, 2003

Chicago Cultural Center Recital, June 2003

Tuscan Sun Festival/Bruges Concertgebouw Concerts 2004

Theatre de la Monnaie, February 2005

Santiago de Compostela, October 2005