BELLA ITALIA

Gregorian Chant Veni creator spiritus (Come, creator spirit) Text ascribed to Hrabanus Maurus (780 - 856)

Carl Orff (1895 - 1982)
O Fortuna (Fortune, Empress of the World)
from: Carmina burana (1936)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741)
Gloria
Opening chorus from: Gloria in D, RV 589

Lodovico Grossi da Viadana (c. 1560 – 1627)
Exultate iusti (Shout for joy, you upright)
Four-part motet

Adriano Banchieri (c. 1568 - 1634) Capricciata à tre voci (Short fancy for three voices)
Contrappunto bestiale alle mente (The animals improvise counterpoint),
from: Festino nella sera del Giovedi grasso avanti cena (1608)
arr. Gerald Wirth

Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
Duetto buffo per due gatti (Duet in the buffo style for two cats)
Arr. Robert Lucas de Pearsall (1795 – 1856)

Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
La carità (Charity - Love, 1844)
Text: Louise Colet (1810 - 1876)

Solo to be announced from the stage

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901)
Va', pensiero, sull'ali dorate (Fly, thoughts, on wings of gold)
Text: Temistocle Solera (1815 – 1878)
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from the opera Nabucco (1842)

Pietro Mascagni (1863 – 1945)
Inneggiamo, il Signor non è morto (Let us sing, the Lord has not died)
Easter Hymn from the opera Cavalleria rusticana (1890)

Heinz Kratochwil (1933 - 1995)
Jubilate Deo (Rejoice in God)
Opus 157a (1976)

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Johann Strauss II (1825 – 1899)
Wo die Zitronen blüh’n (Where the lemons blossom)
Waltz, opus 364 (1874)
Arr. Uwe Theimer

Santa Lucia
Barcarole from Naples
Transcribed by Teodoro Cottrau (1827 - 1879)

Eduardo Di Capua (1865 - 1917), Emanuele Alfredo Mazzucchi (1878 – 1972)
O sole mio (My sun, 1898)
Text: Giovanni Capurro (1859 – 1920)

Domenico Modugno (1928 - 1994)
Volare: Nel blu dipinto di blu (To fly - In the blue painted blue, 1958)
Text: Domenico Modugno and Franco Migliacci (*1930)

Ástor Piazzolla (1921 - 1992)
Libertango (1974)
Arr. Oscar Escalada

Ennio Morricone (*1928)
Nella fantasia (In my mind), from the film The Mission (1986)
Text: Chiara Ferraù; Arr. Audrey Snyder

Bob Merrill (1921 - 1998)
Mambo Italiano (1954)
Arr. Alan Billingsley

Johann Strauss II (1825 – 1899)
Tritsch Tratsch (Chitchat)
Fast polka opus 214
Text: Tina Breckwoldt, Arr. Gerald Wirth

Johann Strauss II (1825 – 1899)
An der schönen blauen Donau (Blue Danube, 1867)
Waltz, opus 314
Text: Franz von Gernerth (1821 – 1900); Arr. Gerald Wirth

Johann Strauss II (1825 - 1899)
Unter Donner und Blitz (Thunder and Lightning)
Fast polka, opus 324 (1867-1868)
Text and Arr. Anton Fergusson