Scarlatti Orchestrations, Op. 347

OP. 347 [D.] SCARLATTI ORCHESTRATIONS (March 15, 2021)
     Sonata in G (Menuetto), K. 80
     Sonata in F (Minuet), K. 94


     Score:

Performances:

          February 29, 2019
               The Opus Project presents Opus 83-84:
                    Mythos in Tempore Belli
               Diablo Valley College Music Building
               Pleasant Hill, CA

          April 23, 2022
               The Opus Project presents Opus 94: Re-Entry!
               Center for New Music
               San Francisco, CA 


Video Recording:

     [Domenico] Scarlatti [1685-1757] Orchestrations, Op. 347 (2021)

          Keyboard Sonata in G (Menuetto), Kirkpatrick 80 (c. 1738)

[Orchestrated generally in the spirit of Dmitri Shostakovich's Two Scarlatti Pieces, Op. 17 (1928), and more specifically inspired by Igor Stravinsky's Octet (1923): I. Sinfonia - Lento]

https://youtu.be/9wkCoWrD-cI

Toch Orchestrations, Op. 346

Op. 346 TOCH ORCHESTRATIONS (January 26, 2021)
     Five Pieces, Op. 86


     Score:

Performance:

January 30, 202
                    The Opus Project presents Opus 86 Online!
                    Totally...! 

    Zoom Meeting Everywhere!

Mass in C Minus, Op. 345

Op. 345 MASS IN C MINUS (January 1, 2021)
     For Voices and Orchestra
     [after Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) -   
     Mass in C Major, Op. 86 (1807)]
          I. Kyrie
          II. Gloria
          III. Credo
          IV. Sanctus
          V. Agnus Dei


Score:

Performance:

January 30, 2021
                     Opus 86 Online!
                     Totally...! 

             Zoom Meeting Everywhere!

Oh, You Faithless Scrooge-let, Op. 344

Op. 344 OH, YOU FAITHLESS SCROOGE-LET (December 23, 2020)
     Canon for 4 Voices and Sleighbells
     [After W.A. Mozart's O du eslhafter Martin, K. 560 (1783)
     and James Lord Pierpoint's Jingle Bells (1857)]

Score:

     (Original)

     (Performance Edition)

(Condensed)

Video Recording:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAIsZ7XHPck

Honecker Honegger, Op. 343

 Op. 343 HONECKER HONEGGER (November 12, 2020)
     For Voices and Orchestra


Score:

Poeme Acoustique, Op. 342

Op. 342 POEME ACOUSTIQUE (October 18, 2020)
     For Orchestra
     (after Edgar Varese Poeme Electronique, 1958)


Score:

Orpheus and Eurydice, Op. 341

Op. 341 ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE (August 25, 2020)
Favola in Musica, mostly after Ovid
     I. Overtura-Toccata - "I Give You This Lyre"
     II. Prologue-Ritournello - "Hymen, Called by the Voice of Orpheus"
     III. Chorus - "He Was Present at Orpheus's Marriage, True"
     IV. Recitative - "While the Newly Wedded Bride, Eurydice,
          Was Walking through the Grass"
      V. Aria - When Orpheus Had Mourned for Her, Greatly,
          He Dared to go Down to Styx"
     VI. Trio - "Through the Weightless Throng"
     VII. Aria - Then Striking the Lyre-Strings"
     VIII. Chorus - "The Bloodless Spirits"
     IX. Duet - "She Was Among the recent Ghosts"
     X. Recitative - "Stunned by the Double Loss of his Wife"
     XI. Chorus - "While the Poet of Thrace
     XII. Epilogue-Ritournello - "The Ghost of Orpheus"


     Score: