AT THE PIANO
SAMUEL BARBER
Blues from Excursions
To My Steinway
The Daisies
Soprano Angela Mitchell and pianist Brett Mitchell perform Samuel Barber’s song, ‘The Daisies’ (1927).
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Happy Birthday, Dear Ludwig
(arr. Leonid Hambro)
Happy Birthday...à la Für Elise!
Happy Birthday...à la Moonlight Sonata!
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
For Stephen Sondheim
For Susanna Kyle
Cha-Cha from West Side Story
(arr. Brett Mitchell)
Olympic Hymn
(arr. Brett Mitchell)
Coming July 2024
DAVE BRUBECK
Strange Meadow Lark
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN
Prelude No. 4 in E minor, Op. 28
Prelude No. 20 in C minor, Op. 28
AARON COPLAND
Introduction from Appalachian Spring
Down a Country Lane
In Evening Air
‘Barley Wagons’ from Of Mice and Men
(arr. Brett Mitchell)
‘Grover’s Corners’ from Our Town
(arr. Brett Mitchell)
Quiet City
Cleveland Orchestra principal trumpet Michael Sachs and solo English horn Robert Walters join Brett Mitchell for a long-distance performance of Aaron Copland's Quiet City, recorded to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the piece's premiere on January 28, 1941.
‘The Gift’ from The Red Pony
(arr. Brett Mitchell)
‘Corral Nocturne’ from Rodeo
‘Nature, the Gentlest Mother’ from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
Soprano Angela Mitchell and pianist Brett Mitchell perform the first of Copland’s Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson, ‘Nature, the Gentlest Mother’ (1950).
GEORGE GERSHWIN
(arr. Bill Evans)
‘I Loves You, Porgy’ from Porgy and Bess
PHILIP GLASS
Opening from Glassworks
In Memoriam John Lennon
‘The Poet Acts’ from The Hours
Koyaanisqatsi
BRETT MITCHELL
Love You Forever
Nocturne in G minor
The Rose Family
Rose’s Lullaby
Will’s Lullaby
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
(arr. Igor Stravinsky)
Chorus from the Prologue to
Boris Godunov
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Mumuki
FRANZ SCHUBERT
The Shepherd on the Rock
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
DUNCAN SHEIK
Johanna in Space
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Chorale from
Symphonies of Wind Instruments
The Star-Spangled Banner
WILLIAM WALTON
(arr. Brett Mitchell)
Crown Imperial
BLACK HISTORY MONTH
ART SONG SERIES
Throughout February 2021, Mr. Mitchell and his wife, soprano Angela Mitchell, released weekly recordings of art songs by Black composers.