The Opus Project Presents Opus 53: Essential Existential

What does it all mean? Find out, with The Opus Project Ensemble in a program of excerpts and short works.
Projected Program (excerpts and short complete works)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Piano Sonata No. 21 (“Waldstein”), Op. 53
Karl Goldmark (1830-1915) Aus Jugendtagen, Overture for Orchestra, Op. 53 (1909)
Vincent d’Indy (1851-1931) The Stranger, Op.53 (1901)
Arthur Foote (1853-1937) Music for the Synagogue, Op. 53 (1902)
Anatoly Liadov (1855-1914) Bagatelle for Piano, Op. 53 (1903)
Julius Rontgen (1855-1932) Little Song of the Meeting of the Infants Jesus and John, Op. 53 (1907)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Four-Part Song, Op. 53 (1907)
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859-1935) Ole from the North Country, Op. 53 (1915)
Anton Arensky (1861-1906) Piano Piece, Op. 53 (1901)
Henri Pierné (1863-1937) Concert Prelude on a Theme of Purcell, Op. 53 (1933)
Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) Mazurka, Op. 53 (1911)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949) Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53 (1903)
Robert Kahn (1865-1952) Sturmlied, Op.53 (1910)
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) Piano Music for Young and Old, Op. 53 (1930)
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Pan and Echo, Op. 53 (1906)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) Tanzwalzer, Op. 53 (1920
Amy Beach (1867-1944) Jephthah’s Daughter, Op. 53 (1903)
Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) Viola Sonata, Op. 53 (1915)
Adolf Weidig (1867-1931) Credo, Op.53 (1922)
Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) Song, Op. 53 (1944)
Albert Roussel (1869-1937) Symphony No.4, Op. 53 (1934)
Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949) Czech Song, Op. 53 (1918)
Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) Rhapsody, Op. 53 (1904)
Louis Vierne (1870-1937) Fantasy Piece from Second Suite, Op. 53 (1926)
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 (1907)
Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) Piece, Op. 53 (1917)
Gustav Holst (1874-1934) On the Battle Which Was Fought at Fontenoy, Op. 53 (1932)
Alexander Gedike (1877-1957) Piano Prelude, Op. 53 (1938)
Max Reger (1873-1916) Piano Silhouette, Op. 53 (1900)
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933) Moods and Reflections, Op. 53 (1905)
Walter Braunfels (1882-1954) The God-Seeking Soul, Op. 53 (1936)
Bela Bartok (1881-1943) Mikrokosmos (1939)
Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) Stabat Mater (1926)
Josef Matthais Hauer (1883-1959) Cantata Wandlungen, Op. 53 (1927)
Ernst Toch (1887-1965) The Water, Op. 53 (1930)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 53 (1931)
Alois Hába (1893-1973) Poetry of Life, Op. 53 (1943)
John Cage (1912-1992) The Perilous Night (1944)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Gloriana, Op. 53 (1953)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 53 (1981)
Giselher Klebe (1925-2009) Piano Quintet (“Quasi una Fantasia”), Op. 53 (1967)
George Crumb (b. 1929) Mundus Canis (A Dog’s World) (1998)
Henryk Górecki (1933-2010) Lerchenmusik (Lark Music), Op. 53 (1986)
Philip Glass (b. 1937) Prelude to “Endgame” (1984)
Nikolai Kapustin (b. 1937) Prelude, Op. 53 (1988)
Mark Alburger (b. 1957) Mice Suite No. 2, Op. 53 (1996)
Stardust (b. 1962) Concerto for Cor Anglais No. 1 (2017)
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