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Grisey's Le Noir de l'Etoile in Dallas and Marfa, Texas
2021 Summer Season
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) String Quartet Op.11, Adagio (1936)
James Wood (b.1953) Rogosanti (Healing) (1986)
Toshio Hosokawa (b.1955) Im Nebel (In the Fog) (2013)
Kaija Saariaho (b.1952) Oi Kuu (1990)
Dai Fujikura (b.1977) The Voice (2007)
Steven Mackey (b.1956) Cairn (1994)
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) And then I knew ’twas Wind (1992)
Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op.117 (1921)
Hans Abrahamsen (b.1952) Six Pieces (1984/2012)
Leos Janácek (1854-1928) From Hukvaldy and Moravian Folk Poetry in Song (1898/1908)
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Amore traditore (Treacherous love), Cantata BWV 203 (1718-9)
György Ligeti (1923-2006) Síppal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel (With Pipes, Drums, Fiddles) (2000)
Thomas Adès (b.1971) The Four Quarters (2010)
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) "Schafe können sicher weiden" ("Sheep May Safely Graze") from Cantata BWV 208 (1713)
Tigran Mansurian (b.1939) Agnus Dei (2006)
Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate (b.1968) Standing Bear: A Ponca Indian Cantata in Eight Tableaux (2015)
Earl Kim (1920-1998) Scenes from a Movie, Part 1, The Seventh Dream (1986)
Eric Nathan (b.1983) Toying (2012)
Brett Dean (b.1961) Seven Signals (2019)
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) Movement for String Trio (2004)—Gideon Klein (1919-1945) String Trio (1944)
György Kurtág (b.1926) Einige Sätze aus den Sudelbüchern Georg Christoph Lichtenbergs, Op. 37a (1996/1999)
Friedrich Cerha (b.1927) Musik für Posaune und Streichquartett (2004-5)
Claude Vivier (1948-1983) Hymnen an die Nacht (1975)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op.4 (1899) (arr. Eduard Steuermann, 1932)
Sebastian Currier (b.1959) Night Time (1998)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Violin Sonata in G Major, Op.96 (1812)
Jörg Widmann (b.1973) String Quartet No. 7 (Beethoven – Study II) (2020)
James MacMillan (b. 1959) "T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)" from ...as others see us... (1990)
Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931) Hommage à T.S. Eliot (1987)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op.130 (1825-6)
James MacMillan (b. 1959) Motet II (2012)
James MacMillan (b. 1959) Motets III, IV, V (2012)
James MacMillan (b. 1959) in angustiis... I (2001)
James MacMillan (b. 1959) Tuireadh (Lament) (1991)
Mario Davidovsky (1934-2019) Salvos (Saved) (1986)
Check back soon. More videos from 2021 are being added throughout the fall!
2020 Summer Season
Watch Yellow Barn's 2020 Summer Concert Streams from the Big Barn.
2019 summer season
Andrew Hamilton O'ROURKE
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto No. 12 in A Major for piano and string quintet, K.414
Eric Nathan Some Favored Nook
Claude Debussy Danses sacrée et profane (Sacred and Profane Dances)
Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring
Elliott Carter Saëta (Arrow) from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
Anna Thorvaldsdottir Ró (Serenity)
Simon Bainbridge Four Primo Levi Settings
Stefan Wolpe Arrangements of Six Yiddish Songs
Eugène Ysaÿe Trio à cordes “Le chimay,” Op. posth.
André Previn Vocalise
Antonín Dvořák Violin Sonata in F Major, Op.57 (B.106)
Salvatore Sciarrino Tre duetti con l'eco (Three Duets with an Echo)
Sándor Veress Memento
Earl Kim Where Grief Slumbers
Tōru Takemitsu Orion
Harrison Birtwistle Crescent Moon over the Irrational
Stephen Coxe About That Time
Jörg Widmann Fieberphantasie (Fever Fantasy)
Brett Dean Recollections
Clara Schumann Romance in A Minor, Op.21
Brett Dean Equality
Brett Dean Huntington Eulogy
Benjamin Britten Winter Words, Op.52
Brett Dean String Quartet No. 2 “And once I played Ophelia”
Philippe Schoeller Isis II
Mark Applebaum Control Freak
Frédéric Chopin Rondo in C Major for Two Pianos, Op. posth. 73
Brett Dean Winter Songs
John Cage Dream
2018 summer season
George Frideric Handel Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op.6 No.5, HWV 323J
John Cage Solo for Voice 15 from Song Books
Einojuhani Rautavaara Ballad for Harp and Strings
Liza Lim Love Letter
Gustav Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen “Songs of a Wayfarer”
John Cage Experiences No.2
Salvatore Sciarrino Le voci sottovetro
Hans Abrahamsen Liebeslied
Philippe Hersant Usher
Stephen Coxe Entretien
Oliver Knussen Triptych
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quintet in G Minor, K.516
César Franck Piano Quintet in F Minor
Antonín Dvořák Piano Trio in G Minor, Op.26
Chinary Ung Spiral
Alexandre Lunsqui Deflectere II
Shulamit Ran Moon Songs, a song cycle in four acts
Béla Bartók Violin Sonata No.2, Sz.76
György Kurtág 12 Microludes for String Quartet, Op.13
Benjamin Britten String Quartet No.1 in D Major, Op.25
Christopher Rouse Compline
Franz Schubert Fantasie in F Minor, D.940
Alexander Raskatov Monk's Music, Seven Words by Starets Silouan
Steven Mackey Heavy Light
Nicholas Maw Roman Canticle
Maurice Ravel Ballade de la reine morte d'aimer “Ballad of the queen who died of love”
Harrison Birtwistle 9 Settings of Lorine Niedecker
Steven Mackey Ars Moriendi, nine tableaux on the art of dying well
Matthew Burtner Coral Attraction
Steven Mackey Fusion Tune
François Sarhan Situation No.7 (Imagination)
Mauricio Kagel Exotica
Steven Mackey Four Iconoclastic Episodes
Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet in F Major, Op.135
Mark Applebaum Aphasia
Sofia Gubaidulina Perception, for soprano, baritone, string septet, and tape
Erich Wolfgang Korngold Suite, Op.23
Steven Mackey On All Fours
Jacob Druckman Bō
Arnold Schoenberg Phantasy, Op.47
Luciano Berio O King
Edison Denisov Clarinet Quintet
Leon Kirchner String Quartet No.4
Luciano Berio Folk Songs
Elliott Carter String Quartet No.1
Viktor Suslin Grenzübertritt “Crossing Beyond”
Béla Bartók The Miraculous Mandarin, Op.19, Sz.73 (BB 82)
Dieter Ammann A(tenir)tension
Johannes Brahms Piano Quartet in G Minor, Op.25
Cathy Berberian Stripsody
Arnold Schoenberg Notturno
2017 summer season
Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G Major, BWV 1048
Sofia Gubaidulina Galgenlieder à 3
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quartet in G Major, K.387
Alexander Raskatov Five Minutes from the Life of W.A.M.
Maurice Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello
Jörg Widmann Zirkustänze