Steve Bryant’s
Collected Concert Program Notes

Through the decades of producing musical plays, concerts and related events, Steve Bryant has researched and written the program notes for scores of, well, um, scores. Click on the concert titles below to see the texts read by concert-goers as they listened to the musical works.
  • Questions and Answers from a Countertenor
      male alto singing — history and technique
  • Baroque Marian Music
      Salve Regina in A minor - Domenico Scarlatti
      Stabat Mater - Antonio Vivaldi
      Stabat Mater - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
  • Poetry in Song
      Three Quartets - Josef Haydn
        Alles hat seine Zeit
        Die Beredsamkeit
        Warnung
      Journey of the Magi (Canticle IV, Op. 86) - Benjamin Britten
      Three Quartets - Johannes Brahms
        Wechsellied zum Tanze (Op. 31, No. 1)
        Der Abend (Op. 64, No. 2)
        Warum (Op. 92, No. 4)
      From Jewish Folk Poetry (Op. 79) - Dmitri Schostakovich
      La Passeggiata - Gioachino Rossini
  • Love Songs Carnal & Divine
      Occhi, perchè piangete? - Agostino Steffani
      Conservate, raddoppiate - Georg Friedrich Händel
      “Mercè,” grido piangendo Luci serene e chiare - Carlo Gesualdo
      O Jesu mi dulcissime - Girolamo Frescobaldi
      Taci Armelin - Claudio Monteverdi
      Non havea Febo ancora (in three parts)- Claudio Monteverdi
      Perchè t’en fuggi o Fillide - Claudio Monteverdi
      Tanti strale - Georg Friedrich Händel
      Sonetto spirituale: Maddalena alla Croce - Girolamo Frescobaldi
      Sotto il tremulo ciel (from Medea) - Pier Francesco Cavalli
      Venite venite - Claudio Monteverdi
      O bone Jesu - Claudio Monteverdi
      Pur ti miro (from Poppea) - Claudio Monteverdi (attr.)
      O quam tu pulcra es - Alessandro Grandi
      Dolcissimo uscignolo - Claudio Monteverdi
  • Orfeo ed Euridice - C.W. Gluck
  • 3 CounterTenors Celebrate Purcell
      Sound the Trumpet (Come, Ye Sons of Art, Away) - Henry Purcell
      Ode on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell - John Blow
      Dialogue Between Coridon and Mopsa (The Fairy Queen) - Purcell
      Cloe Found Amintas - Blow
      Triumph Victorious Love (Dioclesian) - Purcell
      Strike the Viol (Come, Ye Sons of Art, Away) - Purcell
      One Charming Night (The Fairy Queen) - Purcell
      From Rosy Bowers (Don Quixote, Part III) - Purcell
      Ah Heav’n! What is’t I Hear? - Blow
      Hosanna to the Highest - Purcell
      O sole mio - Eduardo di Capua
      Indian Love Call - Rudolf Friml, O. Harback, O. Hammerstein II (encore song)
  • Courtly Love and The Kingdom of God
      Ave Maris Stella - John Dunstable (1370-1453)
      Quam Pulcra Es - John Dunstable
      Sancta Maria - John Dunstable
      Edi Beo Thu Hevene Quene - Anonymous (14th century)
      Alas Departynge is Ground of Woo - Anonymous (15th century)
      Sweet Kate - Robert Jones
      Ah Robyn, Gentil Robyn - William Cornysh (died c. 1523)
      Doe You Not Know - Thomas Morley (1557-1602)
      Cease Mine Eyes - Thomas Morley
      Come Shepherd Swain - John Wilbye (1574-1628)
      As Fair as Morn - John Wilbye
      Cloe Found Amintas - John Blow (1649-1708)
      With that Sublime Celestial Lay - Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
      Upon a Quiet Conscience - Henry Purcell
      Blessed is He - Henry Purcell
      Hosanna to the Highest - Henry Purcell
      Hear Me, 0 Lord - Henry Purcell
      Triumph Victorious Love - Henry Purcell

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