Representative works conducted with orchestra
Bach | Johannespassion (with Baroque orchestra) Matthäuspassion (staged with Baroque orchestra) B-minor Mass (with Baroque orchestra) Orchestral Suite No. 3 (with Baroque orchestra) Magnificat (with Baroque orchestra) Bist Du Bei Mir (newly orchestrated Sametz) Cantatas 4, 61, 131, 180 |
Barber | Adagio for Strings |
Beethoven | Missa Solemnis Ninth Symphony Triple Concerto Mass in C Overture to Coriolanus Leonora Overture No. 3 Chorale Fantasie Meerstille und glückliche Fahrt Fidelio – Prisoners’ Chorus – Recitative and Scene: Abscheulicher! |
Bernstein | Chichester Psalms |
Bizet | Carmen (excerpts) |
Borodin | Polovtsian Dances |
Brahms | Ein Deutsches Requiem Nänie Schicksalslied Alt Rhapsodie |
Britten | War Requiem St. Nicholas |
Bruckner | Mass in E Minor |
Carissimi | Jepthe (with Baroque orchestra) |
Debussy | Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien (ballet and actors) with text translation by S. Sametz Nocturnes |
Duruflé | Requiem |
Dvorak | Slavonic Dances Te Deum |
Fauré | Requiem |
Handel | Messiah (with Baroque Orchestra) Israel in Egypt Ode for St.Cecilia’s Day |
Lutosławski | Trois poèmes d’Henri Michaux |
Alma Mahler | In meines Vaters Garten |
Gustav Mahler | Das klagende Lied Symphony 2, Resurrection(Finale) Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 |
Mascagni | Cavalleria Rusticana Easter Chorus</td> |
Mendelssohn | Loreley (American premiere plus world premiere of section newly translated from manuscript) (1993) |
Mendelssohn | Psalm 42 |
Mendelssohn-Hensel | Lobgesang |
Monteverdi | Vespers of 1610 (with Chanticleer and the Orchestra of the 18th Century) |
Mozart | Mass in C Minor Requiem |
Mussorgsky | Coronation Scene from Boris Godunov St John’s Night on the Bare Mountain (chorus and orchestra from Fair at Soroschinski) |
Orff | Carmina Burana |
Poulenc | Gloria |
Prokofiev | Classical Symphony |
Puccini | Madama Butterfly – Humming Chorus and Un bel di |
Ravel | Daphnis and Chloe Suite no. 2 Tsigane |
Reger | Der Einsiedler |
Rossini | Stabat Mater |
Salieri | Symphony in C |
Sametz | Carmina amoris (Songs of Love) (Choral Symphony) White Raven (ballet-concerto for piano, chorus and orchestra) Be/Dazzled (concertino for solo electric violin and orchestra) cent fois plus ombre (A Hundred Times More A Shadow) Earth, Wind, Fire (concerto for two harps and orchestra) Orison–A Child’s Prayer (concertino for two instruments and chamber orchestra) American Songs – Sacred and Profane (for baritone solo, chorus and orchesta) Small Steps, Tiny Revolutions (ballet) The Marriage of the Table and the Chair (cartoon opera in one act) in time of (premiere, orchestral version, 1995) Muji no makotoba (Scripture without words) Nevermore will the Wind (original version for choir and chamber orchestra) Child of Song (original version for soprano solo, chorus and orchestra) Musica animae (Music of the Soul) Thou Whose Birth The Twenty-ninth Bather We Two Boys Together Clinging Fantasia on Jesu, meine Freude Fantasia on Call to Remembrance |
Sametz & Shah-Yukich | The Demon King (premiere, 1996) with tabla, tanpura, Indian dancers and giant puppet |
Schoenberg | A Survivor from Warsaw (staged) Friede auf Erden |
Schubert | Mass in Ab |
Richard Strauss | Trio (Act Three) from Der Rosenkavalier |
Stravinsky | Les noces (with ballet) Symphony of Psalms |
Tchaikovsky | Violin Concerto Letter Scene and Waltz from Eugene Onegin K Rodosti (Ode to Joy) |
Varese | Ionization |
Verdi | Requiem Quattro Pezzi Sacri Aïda – Triumphal March – Celeste Aïda |
Wagner | Wesendonck Lieder Tannhäuser – Overture & Venusberg – Pilgrim’s Chorus – Entrance of the Nobles |
Vaughan Williams | Fantasy on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Serenade to Music Dona nobis pacem |
Wolf | Der Feuerreiter |
Opera showcase programs including works of Bellini, Bernstein, Bizet, Borodin, Catalani, Delibes, Mascagni, Mussorgsky, Puccini, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, Verdi, and Wagner.
Representative works for chorus or chorus and small ensemble
Bach | Motet I: Singet dem Herrn Motet II: Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf Motet V: Jesus, meine Freude Motet VI: Lobet den Herrn |
Barber | Reincarnations |
Brahms | Warum ist das Licht gegeben? Schaffe in mir Gott Der Heiland Reiß die Himmel auf |
Byrd | Mass for 3 voices Mass for 4 voices Laudibus in sanctis |
Dalla Piccola | Cori dei malammogoliati |
Josquin | Missa pange lingua Déploration sur la morte d’Ockeghem Missa l’homme armé |
Ligeti | Lux aeterna |
Mahler | Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (arr. for chorus) |
Messiaen | Cinq rechants |
Monteverdi | Lagrime d’Arianna |
Palestrina | Missa sine nomine Canite tuba in Sion |
Sametz | Thou Whose Birth The Twenty-ninth Bather We Two Boys Together Clinging Fantasia on Jesu, meine Freude Fantasia on Call to Remembrance No More Wars – A Letter for Sarah (for baritone solo, choir and strings quartet) Kumulipo |
Schoenberg | Friede auf Erden Lieder für Mannerchor |
Schein | Psalm 116 “Das ist mir lieb” |
Schütz | Cantiones sacre – Ego dormio Psalm 84 |
Stanford | Magnificat in G |
Tallis | Spem in alium Lamentations of Jeremiah |
Tavener | The Bridegroom |
Verdi | Pater noster |