Craig Combs

SELECTED REPERTOIRE

 

New Works - * Premiere

*Byron Adams: Ballade for Piano and Wind Ensemble 

David Conte: Piano Fantasy (solo piano)                                          

Ann Holler:

     *Appalachian Air (pn, vl, fl)                                             

     *Appalachian Waltz (pn, fl, vl, vc)

     *Appalachian Souvenirs (pn, fl, vl, vc)

Evelyn Kopitzke:

     *African Vignettes (pn, vl, vc, fl, cl)                                 

     *Victoria Vignettes (pn, vl, vc, fl, cl)                               

Michael Kosch:

     *Elementary Principles: The Colorized Version (Opera)s 

     *Eight Great Lives (Opera)                                               

     Galacia (pn, cl, vc)

     *Thomasine (Sop, pn, vl, vc)                                                         

Beth Perkinson McCoy: *Illuminations (pn, vl, vc, fl, cl)                             

David See: *A Scrapbook Suite (pn, vl, vc, fl, cl)                 

 

Piano Trio – piano, violin (or flute or clarinet) & cello

Ernst Block: Nocturnes for Piano Trio

Johannes Brahms: Trio in A minor, op. 114 (cl)        

L. von Beethoven:

     Piano Trio in E-flat, op. 1, no. 1                            

     Piano Trio op. 70, no. 2

Frank Bridge: Miniatures for Piano Trio

Max Bruch: Eight Pieces, op. 83 (cl)

Jean-Michel Damase: Sonate en concert (fl)  

Richard Danielpour: A Child’s Reliquary     

Anton Dvořák:

     Piano Trio No. 1 in B Flat Major, op. 21              

     “Dumky” Trio, op. 90      

Vincent D’Indy: Trio                         

Claude Debussy: Piano Trio in G Major

Gabriel Faure: Piano Trio, op. 120

Phillipe Gaubert: Trois Aquarelles                                                                 

Mikhail Glinka: Piano Trio Pathetique in d minor                             

Joseph Haydn: Piano Trios XV:15, 16, & 17

W. A. Mozart: Piano Trio in Eb Major, KV 398 (Keglestatt)

Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No.1 in D-minor, op.49

Carl Reinecke:Trio in B Flat for Pn, Hn, & Cl, op. 274        

Paul Schoenfield: Cafe Music

Roberts Schumann: Fantasiestucke, op. 88 for Piano Trio

Joaquin Turina: Circulo         

C. M. von Weber: Trio in Gm, op 63 

Darius Milhaud: Suite for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, op. 157b       

Ferderic Mompou: Evocation for Piano Trio

Cesar Cui: Five Pieces for fl, vl & pn

 

Quartets and Quintets with Piano

Bela Bartok: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion

Claude Bolling: Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio (fl, pn, bs, perc)         

Gabriel Faure: Piano Quartet no. 1 in C minor, op. 15

Aaron J. Kernis: Quattro stagione cuisine futurissmo (Sop, pn, vl, vc)

Ned Rorem: Santa Fe Songs (Sop, vl, va, vc, pn)

Franz Schubert: Adagio and Rondo in F Major                                

Robert Schumann:

     Piano Quartet in E flat, op. 47

     Piano Quintet in E flat, op. 44      

Dmitri Shostakovich:                         

     Piano Trio no. 2 in e minor

     Piano Quintet in G minor, op. 57  

Alan Louis Smith: Vignettes: Wagon Woman Songs (Sop, vl, vc, pn)

W.A. Mozart:

     Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, K. 478              

     Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, K. 493         

     Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat, K. 271

     Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K 414

     Piano Concerto no. 13 in C major, K 415             

Astor Piazzolla:

     Cuatro estaciones porteñas            

     La Muerta del Angel         

     Revolucionario

     Oblivion

 

Duo with Piano          

Johannes Brahms                   

     Cello Sonata no.1 in E minor, op. 38

     Violin Sonata no.1 in G major, op. 78                      

Norbert Bergmüller: Duo for Clarinet and Piano              

Frank Bridge: Cello Sonata                                                                                       

Edward Elgar: Sonata for Violin and Piano, op. 82                          

George Enescu: Cantabile and Presto                                                            

Lukas Foss: Three American Pieces                                                        

Paul Hindemith: Sonate for English Horn     

Scott McCallister:

     Nine Bagatelles (cl, vc, pn)                                               

     Black Dog Rhapsody        

W.A. Mozart: Violin Sonata

Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Flute & Sonata for Clarinet

Sergei Prokofieff: Violin (Flute) Sonata no. 2

Carl Reinecke: Sonata “Undine” for flute and piano, op. 167 

Robert Schuman: Fantasiestucke for piano and clarinet, op. 73

                          

Chamber, Vocal

Forbidden Voices: Songs by Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis

Recording available via Itunes, CD Universe or Divine Art

Ernest Bloch: Select Songs                              

Berthold Goldscmidt: Select Songs                              

Pavel Haas: Seven songs, op. 18                                  

Friedrich Hollaender: Songs from Cabaret and Film                   

Franz Schreker: Acht Leider                                                                

Erwin Schulhoff: Funf Gesange                                                   

Viktor Ullmann: Fünf Liebeslieder, Op 26                           

Egon Wellesz: Leider op. 22                                                              

Erich Zeisl:

     Six Songs for Medium Voice                                            

     Seven Songs for High Voice                                             

Alexander Zemlinsky: Walzer Gesange, op.6       

 

Lieder, Chanson, Songs, and Opera Arias

Many selected songs. Below, a sample of larger works listed:

L. von Beethoven:

     Adelaide, op. 46

     An die ferne geliebte, op.98  

Alban Berg: Sieben fruhe lieder     

Leonard Bernstein: La Bonne Cuisine

Johannes Brahms: Vier Ernsten Gesänge, op 112         

Claude Debussy: Ariettes oubliées                                                

Brazilian Songs by Lorenzo Fernandez:

     Dentro da noite                             

     A velha historia

     Madrigal

     Canção ao luar

     O’ vida da minha vida

Juan Bautista Plaza: Venuezula: Por estos cuatro caminos      

Gustavo Yepes: Columbia: La niña de la guitarra 

Celia Torra: Argentina: Abandano                    

Juan Orrego-Salas: Chile: La Gitana                                                                          

Gustav Mahler: Das Knaben Wunderhorn                                        

Frederic Mompou: Combat del Sol                                                                 

Franz Schubert:

     Die Schöne Müllerin                                                         

     Winterreisse D. 911                                               

Robert Schumann:

     Liederkreis, op. 39                                                

     Dichterliebe, Op. 48                                                          

Alberto Villalpando: Tres canciones sobre textos chinos anónimos

 

Four-hand piano

Johannes Brahms: Souvenir do la Russie                                 

Aaron Copland: Variations on a Shaker Melody         

Antonin Dvorak: Slovanic Dances                             

Gabriel Faure: Dolly Suite, op. 56                                                     

Edvard Grieg: Norwegian Dances, op. 35                                         

Bernard Heiden: Sonata (1946)                                           

Paul Hindemith: Waltzes, op.6                 

Franz Schubert: Fantasia in Fm, op. 103, D. 940                              

Robert Schumann: Bilder aus Osten, op. 66                                      

Alexander Tcherepnin: Suite Georgienne                              

Les Six, Ravel, Ibert, Ferroud: L’Eventail de Jean (Children’s Ballet)         

                                               

 

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