
REPERTOIRE
Complete Repertoire (2022)
Each season Staunton Music Festival's artistic director, Carsten Schmidt, orchestrates an eclectic combination of programs, covering 600 years of exceptional music from the Middle Ages to commissioned premieres. We realize that music lovers go to concerts for many different reasons. One of those reasons is a chance to hear new interpretations of beloved masterworks; another is to discover unexpected treasures from the past and the present. If you are eager to hear a certain work, or perhaps just looking for music by a favorite composer, the Repertoire list below will guide you to everything being performed in Staunton this season.
Click on the work title to visit the relevant concert page.
Arauxo | Tiento del segundo tono de medio registro de tiple
G. C. Bach | "Siehe wie fein und lieblich"
J. Christ. Bach | Prelude & Fugue in E-flat
J. M. Bach | "Ach, bleib bei uns"
J. S. Bach | Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
J. S. Bach | Cantata No. 207 "Vereinigte Zwietracht"
J. S. Bach | Concerto in C, for three harpsichords, strings
J. S. Bach | Orchestral Suite No. 3
J. S. Bach | Quodlibet, for vocal quartet and continuo
J. S. Bach | selections from harpsichord notebooks
J. S. Bach | Sonata in C Minor for violin and harpsichord
J. S. Bach | Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C BWV 564
Bartók | Duos for two violins
Beethoven | The Last Rose of Summer, for voice and piano trio
Beethoven | Symphony No. 3 ("Eroica"), arr. for piano quartet
Beethoven | Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Berio | from Folk Songs, for voices and chamber ensemble
Biscardi | Photo - Pier - Moonlight for two violins
Blank | Two Holy Sonnets, for alto and chamber ensemble
Brubeck/Wadsworth | Take Five, arr. for Baroque ensemble
Böhm | Three settings of "Vater unser im Himmelreich"
Brahms | Intermezzo for piano, Op. 119 No. 1
Brahms | Symphony No. 4 in E Minor
Buxtehude | Praeludium in g, BuxWV 163
Charpentier | Te Deum, for soloists, chorus and orchestra
Chausson | Concert for violin, piano, and string quartet
Chen Yi | Bagatelles for piano
Chen Yi | Chinese Fables
Chen Yi | from Fiddle Suite, for erhu and string quartet
Chen Yi | Sparkle, for chamber ensemble
Clérambault | selections from La muse de l’opera
Couperin | Works for keyboard
Crumb | Ancient Voices of Children
D’Anglebert | Prelude in g
Debussy | from Children’s Corner
Debussy/Beamish | La Mer, arr. for piano trio
Debussy | Petite Suite, for piano four hands
Debussy/V.Mendelssohn | Danse Extatique & Chambre Magique
Eccles | “Cease of Cupid to complain”
Fasch | Trio Sonata in B flat, for recorder and oboe
Finger | Violin Sonata in E
Frescobaldi | Toccata per l'elevazione
Gabrieli | Canzona for brass quartet
Gaultier | Tombeau de Mezangeau
Geminiani | Concerto grosso in d, "La folia," for strings
Haydn | The Creation for voices, chorus, and orchestra
Haydn | Notturno in C major for winds and strings
Haydn | Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp Minor (“Farewell”)
Handel | "Per la porte del tormento" from Sosarme
Handel | Sonata and Aria from La Resurezzione
Handel | Zadok the Priest for chorus and orchestra
Handel | selections from Water Music Suite No 3
Handel | “Vo far guerra,” from Rinaldo, for countertenor
Harbison | November 19, 1828, for piano quartet
Heucke | Concerto Grosso for two orchestras (premiere)
Heucke | Andenken, for 6 voices
Lambert | “Ah! Qui Voudra” and “Je sui aime”
Liszt | Elegy for English horn, piano, harmonium, and harp
Lully | Ouverture and Passacaille from Armide
Machaut | Motet: Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient
Mahler | Kindertotenlieder, for contralto and orchestra
Marcello | Concerto in d for oboe, strings, and continuo
Mendelssohn | Concerto No. 1 in g minor, for piano and orchestra
Mendelssohn | “Hebrides” Overture, arranged for piano trio
Monteverdi | selections from Vespers of 1610
Mozart | Galimathias musicum, for orchestra
Mozart | “Gran Partita” for winds
Mozart | Variations on “Ah vous dirai-je, Maman,” for fortepiano
Neikrug | Through Roses, for actor and chamber ensemble
Pachelbel | Canon and Gigue for three violins and continuo
Pisendel | Sonata in a for violin solo
Portuguese troubadour songs from a medieval collection
Purcell | "Music for a while"
Purcell | Selections from King Arthur
Purcell | Selections from Ode to St Cecilia
Rameau | Tambourine, La Cupis, and La Marais
Reincken | Allemande for three harpsichords
Roussel | Serenade for harp, flute, violin, viola, and cello
Scarlatti | Two sonatas, transcribed for harp
Scheidemann | Benedicam Domino for organ
Schubert | Adagio-Allegro, from Octet for winds and strings
Schubert | Gesang der Geister
Schubert | Part Songs for vocal quintet and fortepiano
Schubert/Liszt | Song transcription for solo harp
Schulhoff | Cloud Pump, for baritone and chamber ensemble
Schulhoff | Syncopated Peter
Schumann | from Bilder aus dem Osten, for piano four hands
Schumann | from Kinderszenen for solo piano
Schumann/Heucke | Three Songs
Sibelius | Water Drops, for violin and cello
J. Strauss/Schoenberg | Rosen aus dem Süden
R. Strauss/Wadsworth | selections from Der Rosenkavalier
Stravinsky | Symphony of Psalms, for chorus and orchestra
Strozzi | Madrigals from Opus 1
Sweelinck | "Echo" Fantasia for organ
Tallis | “Gloria” from Missa Puer natus est, for 7 voices
Tchaikovsky/Wadsworth | selections from Nutcracker (premiere)
Telemann | Concerto in D, for horn, strings and continuo
Telemann | Concerto in D, for two oboes, trumpet, and continuo
Telemann | Concerto in D, for 4 violins without bass
Telemann | Overture in C (“Water Music”)
Villa-Lobos | Bachiana Brasilieras No. 5, for soprano and strings
Vivaldi | Concerto for two trumpets, strings and continuo
Vivaldi | Concerto in d for bassoon, strings, and continuo
Vivaldi | Concerto in C for two trumpets, strings and continuo
Vivaldi | Concerto in D, for lute, strings, and continuo
Wadsworth | Abendländisches Lied
Wadsworth | New Work for narrator and ensemble (premiere)
Wadsworth | Palaces of Memory
Wieck | Three Rückert Songs, from Op.12
Zelenka | Capriccio in F for two horns, two oboes
Zhou Long | Tales from the Cave
Zhou Long | Words of the Sun, for vocal ensemble