COMPLETE REPERTOIRE

 

LATIN AMERICAN AND SPANISH

Miguel del Aguila: Seducción (fl,cl,pno), Disagree (fl,cl,pno)
Macedonio Alcalá: Dios Nunca Muere (mezzo, cl, pno) José Elizondo: Danzas Latinoamericanas (fl,cl,pno) Manuel de Falla: El Amor Brujo (arr. for mezzo,fl,cl,vc,pno,perc)
Liliana Felipe: En Coyoacán (arr. for mezzo,cl,vc,pno,perc), Montón de Tierra (arr. for mezzo,pno,vc)
Blas Galindo: Tres Canciones (mezzo,pno)
Guillermo Galindo: Espacios Mercado Sonora (fl,cl,vc,pno)
Eduardo Gamboa: Compón Cortito (fl,cl,vc,pno), Mixcoac (fl,cl,vc,pno)
Alberto Ginastera: Danza de la Moza Donosa (arr. for fl,pno) Carlos Guastavino: La Rosa y el Sauce (mezzo,pno), Pampamapa-Aire de Huella (mezzo,pno)
Agustín Lara: Granada (arr. for mezzo,cl,pno)
Arturo Márquez: Zarabandeo (cl,pno)
Xavier Montsalvage: Canción de Cuna (mezzo,pno)
Joaquín Nin Culmell: Quinteto (arr. for flcl,vla, vc,pno)
Gabriela Ortiz: Tepito-Barrio de Resistencia (fl,cl,vc,pno)
Astor Piazzolla: Fuga y Misterio, Todo Buenos Aires, La Mufa (arr. for fl,cl,pno,perc), Milonga del Angel, La Muerte del Angel (fl,cl,vc,pno), L’Histoire du Tango (arr. for fl,pno)
Silvestre Revueltas: Cinco Canciones para Niños (arr. for mezzo,cl,vc,pno)
Joaquín Rodrigo: Fantasia para un Gentilhombre (arr. for fl,pno)
Francisco Torroba: Dedicatoria (fl,pno)
Heitor Villa Lobos: Choros No.2 (fl, cl), Bachianas Brasilieras (fl,pno)
Mexican Traditional: La Llorona (fl,vc, pno)


NORTH AMERICAN

Valerie Coleman: Requiem Milonga (fl,pno), Portraits of Langston (fl,cl,pno) Beth Custer: Daikon Radish, from Bernal Heights Suite (arr. for mezzo,cl,pno,perc), Hidden Stairways of San Francisco (alto fl,mezzo,cl,vc,pno).
Chus Alonso: Suite de los Barrios (fl,cl,pno)Solsticio (fl,cl,pno,perc)
Libby Larsen: Barn Dances (fl,cl,pno), Blue Third Pieces (cl,gtr)
Gabriela Lena Frank: Sueños de Chambi (fl, pno) Peter Josheff: Overture from 3 Hands, Sutro Tower in the Fog (fl,cl,pno) Pauline Oliveros: Zina’s Circle (mixed ensemble), Divergence Heading Towards Unison (mixed ensemble)
Erik Pearson: With The Birds Above Fort Funston (fl,cl,pno), At the Fog Line (Clayton Street, Ashbury Heights) (fl,cl,pno), Scherzo - Walking Race With the #33 Bus (fl, cl,pno). Jennifer Peringer: The Canyon Wakes Up (fl,cl,sax,gtr,pno)
Russell Peterson: Sonata No. 1 (fl,cl/sax,pno)
Carlos Santana and Alberto Guianquinto: Incident at Neshabur (arr. for fl,cl,vc,pno) Sarah Rose Stiles: A Dança da Sobrevivência (fl,picc,cl,bass cl,sax,tablas,pno) Davide Verotta: Sulle Aridi Pendici (fl,bass cl,sax,pno)
Katrina Wreede: Episodes in China Basin (fl,cl,pno,perc)
Enric Andrew Zappa: For Esther Chloe (arr. for fl,cl, pno)


EUROPEAN

J.S. Bach: Flute Sonatas I, IV and V (fl,pno)
C.P.E Bach: Trio Sonatas I - III (arr. for fl,cl,pno), Sonata in Gm (fl,pno)
Bela Bartok: Hungarian Peasant Suite (fl,pno)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio No. 4 in B flat Op. 11 (cl,vc,pno)
Lennox Berkeley: Sonatina in C (fl,pno) George Bizet: Carmen (arr. for fl,clar,mezzo,pno)
Claude Bolling: Suite for Flute and Piano (fl,pno,perc)
Franz Danzi: Sinfonia Concertante Op. 41(fl,cl,pno) Sally Davies: Restore Our Earth (voices,mixed ensemble) Lili Boulanger: D’un Matin de Printemps (fl,pno)
Johannes Brahms: Two Lullabies Op. 91 (arr. for mezzo,cl,pno)
Louise Farrenc: Trio for Flute Op. 45 (fl,vc,pno)
Cesar Frank: Sonata in A major (arr. for fl,pno)
G.F. Handel: Flute Sonata in G, Op. 1 No. 5 (fl,pno) Aram Khachaturian: Trio (arr. for fl,cl,pno)
Darius Milhaud: Scaramouche (arr. for cl,pno)
W.A. Mozart: Kegelstaat Trio K.498 (cl,vla,pno)Non so piu cosa son, Parto ma tu ben mio (arr. for mezzo,cl,pno)
Frances Poulenc: Sonata for Flute and Piano (fl,pno)
Sergei Prokofiev: Flute Sonata in D Op. 94 (fl,pno)
Serge Rachmaninoff: Vocalise Op. 34 no. 14 (arr. for fl,pno)
Nino Rota: Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano (cl,vc,pno) John Rutter: Suite Antique (fl,pno)
Camille Saint-Saëns: Tarantelle Op. 6 (fl,cl,pno) Franz Schubert: Theme and Variations on “Trockne Blumen” D. 802 (fl,pno) Robert Schumann: Fantasiestücke in Am, Op. 88 (cl,vla,pno)
Carl Maria von Weber: Flute Trio in Gm Op. 63 (fl,vc,pno)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Four Waltzes (fl,cl,pno)


OTHER

Jean Hasse: Five Japanese Poems (arr. for mezzo,cl,pno)
Michio Miyagi: Haru No Umi (fl,pno)

 

PROGRAM AVAILABLE FOR FUTURE CONCERTS

CHAMBER MUSIC OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA
for Flute, Clarinet and Piano

The pieces on this program combine the virtuosity and complexity of the classical chamber music tradition with vibrant local musical influences such as Harlem jazz, Mexican son, Brazilian Bossa Nova, Argentinian tango, Peruvian folk music, and Appalachian blue grass.

Danzas Latinoamericanas by José Elizondo Harawi de Quispe and P’asña Marcha from Sueños de Chambi by Gabriela Lena Frank Disagree by Miguel del Águila Le Grand Duc Mambo and Harlem’s Summer Night from Portraits of Langston by Valerie Coleman Forward Six and Fall Back Eight, Varsouvianna and Rattlesnake Twist from Barn Dances by Libby Larson Fuga y Misterio by Astor Piazzolla

MUSICAL CHAIRS: Chamber Music from Around the World
for Flute, Clarinet, Cello and Piano

The instrumentations keep changing in this typically ecletic Bernal Hill Players program, which includes an elegant German Classical Sinfonia by Franz Danzi, a magnificent French Romantic flute trio by  Louise Farrenc, a Fellini-esque Italian clarinet trio by  Nino Rota, an Indian and jazz-influenced flute trio by Russell Peterson, and dynamically rhythmic Latin American compositions by  Eduardo Gamboa and  Miguel del Aguila.

Allegro moderato from Sinfonia Concertante Op. 41, by Franz Danzi 
Flute Trio Op. 45, by Louise Farrenc: 
Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, by Nino Rota
Adagio from Sonata No. 1, by Russell Peterson
Seducción, by Miguel del Aguila
Compón Cortito, by Eduardo Gamboa
                                      

SF-DF*: MUSIC OF TWO CITIES
for Flute, Voice, Clarinet, Cello and Piano

This program is the fruit of a project in which the Bernal Hill Players commissioned works from Bay Area and Mexico City composers, writing about neighborhoods of their beloved cities.

*DF was the abbreviation for Mexico City, short for "Distrito Federal”. The abbreviation changed to “CDMX” in 2016.

Hidden Staircases of San Francisco, by Beth Custer
Inner Postcards from San Francisco, by Erik Pearson
Suite de los Barrios, by Chus Alonso Episodes at China Basin, by Katie Wreede
Tepito: Barrio de Resistencia, by Gabriela Ortiz Mixcoac, by Eduardo Gamboa