The Arabella Ensemble continues to present creative programs of arias, songs, lieder and melodie new and old across areas of New England and abroad. The ensemble has grown and now is pleased to include collaborations with instrumentalists providing an even richer program of chamber music to audiences.

Their programs have included music by notable composers such as J. S. Bach, Samuel Barber, Margaret Bonds, Benjamin Britten, Johannes Brahms, Harry Burleigh, Aaron Copland, Claude Debussy, Henri Duparc, Edvard Elgar, Duke Ellington, Gabriel Fauré, Carlisle Floyd, George Gershwin, Elisabeth Mehl Greene, Edvard Grieg, Reynaldo Hahn, G. F. Handel, Lori Laitman, Bohuslav Martinu, W. A. Mozart, John Jacob Niles, Giovanni Pergolesi, Francis Poulenc, Roger Quilter, Sigmund Romberg, John Rutter, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Jean Sibelius, Mark Sirett, John Stainer, Wilhelm Stenhammar, Richard Strauss, Arthur Goring Thomas and Hugo Wolf.

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A program of songs and chamber music focusing on the on theme of Epiphany and Snow. Modern composers are featured in this program including works of David Brunner, Elisabeth Mehl Greene, John Jacob Niles, John Rutter and Mark Sirett alongside American spirituals/gospel music by Harry Burleigh, Jester Hairston and Ivory & Caldwell. Historic song and arias by J. S. Bach, Brahms, Sibelius, Elgar, Martinu and Wolf are woven into the fabric of the program.

A program of song cycles, duets and more with an emphasis on British and American composers.

An exploration of the poetry of Emily Dickinson set to music by American composer Aaron Copland.

With an emphasis on Mother Nature, the program visits the theme of rebirth in a metaphorical sense comparing the emergence of life in Spring after the baren Winter with the rebuilding of a city or area after disaster. This program is focused on the rebuilding of the city of New Orleans with music of American composers such as Aaron Copland, George Gershwin and African American composer Margaret Bonds. Elements of jazz, African American spirituals are intermingled throughout the program.

Music of song and aria focusing on the sacred include cantata arias by J. S. Bach, selections from Samuel Barber's Hermit Songs, Fauré's En Prière, Gounod's Ave Maria, selections from Mozart's Exultate Jubilate K. 165, arias from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, and lieder from the Mörike Liederbuch and Spanisches Liederbuch of Hugo Wolf

The central theme of love is explored and discovered via American, French, German and British art song and light opera. Music of Samuel Barber's Hermit Songs, a telephone jingle by Benjamin Britten, Debussy's Ariettes Oubliées, Henri Duparc's L'invitation au Voyage, Gershwin's Blah, Blah, Blah from his film musical Delicious, selections from Roger Quilter's Seven Elizabethan Lyrics, Opus 12, Sigmund Romberg's aria One Kiss from the operetta New Moon and Die Nacht by Richard Strauss.

The equisite beauty of love and agony of love loss can be experienced through Reynaldo Hahn's mélodie, Schumann's lieder from Myrten, Opus 25 and American composer Lori Laitman's song cycle The Metropolitan Towers. Other musical selections include Henri Duparc's L'invitation au Voyage, Susannah's aria, The Trees On the Mountains from Carlisle Floyd's opera, Susannah and Oh! Had I Jubal's Lyre from G. F. Handel's oratorio, Joshua, HWV 64

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