STAUFENBIEL/SHARRON DUO
Recordings
You can listen to 23 recordings. Use the forward arrow to advance to any of the songs in the Recordings List below:
The Staufenbiel/Scharrón Duo was formed in 1997 when guitarist Eladio Scharrón and tenor Brian Staufenbiel performed their first recital at Kilburn Hall in Rochester, New York. The duo recently completed a, soon to be released, recording of works by Britten, Argento, and Adler (commissioned work). They created and frequently perform Dominick Argento’s Letters from Composers, as a one-man opera, and are currently working on several new commissions and their new opera for tenor and guitar J Edgar Hoover.
Steve DiBartolomeo, Westside Studio Images. (photo)
Recordings List
Folksong Arrangements: Benjamin Britten
1. I will give my love an apple
2. Sailor-boy
3. Master Kilby
4. The Soldier and the Sailor
5. Bonny at Morn
6. The Shooting of his Dear
Songs from the Chinese: Benjamin Britten
7. The Big Chariot (from The Book of Songs)
8. The Old Lute (Po Chü-i)
9. The Autumn (Wu-ti)
10. The Herd-Boy (Lu Yu)
11. Depression (Po Chü-i)
12. Dance Song (from The Book of Songs)
POSSIBILITIES: Samuel Adler
(Dedicated to Brian Staufenbiel and Eladio Scharron)
13. POSSIBILITIES--Henry Wadorth Longfellow
14. STILL LIFE, MIDDLE HADDAM ROAD--Melani Rahak
15. THE SECRET--Stephen DUNN
16. FROM A ROLLING STONE--Robert Service
LETTERS FROM COMPOSERS: Dominick Argento
(Staged as a one-man opera)
17. Frederic Chopin, sick with tuberculosis, describing the quiet of his surroundings and the relaxed manner of the life style in Palma. December 28, 1838
18. Wolfgang Mozart writing to his father in Vienna, pleading for understand as he tells of his dismissal by the Archbishop of Salzburg. June 9, 1781
19. Franc Schubert writing to his friend Kupelwieser in Rome, despairing over his poor health, lack of money, and thoughts of failure and death. March 31, 1824
20. Johann Sebastian Bach, addressing the town council of Leipzig to settle a grievance; between himself and a local business man who was married out of town. August 24, 1736
21. Claude Debussy, ill with brain cancer and sedated with morphine, despairing over World War I, which rages on in Europe. December 3,1916
22. Giocomo Puccini yearning to leave Paris, after his triumph of La Bohème, and return to his beloved Italy with its informality and rural atmosphere. May 10, 1898
23. Robert Schumann writing a love letter to his fiancée Clara. June 3, 1839