Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Recorded live at Ravinia's Bennett Gordon Hall on August 7, 2025. Learn more about Ravinia’s Steans Institute at ravinia.org/steans

PROGRAM:
Amy Beach — Three Browning Songs, Op. 44
The Year’s at the Spring
Ah, Love, but a day
I Send My Heart Up To Thee
Sophia Baete, mezzo-soprano
Lucas Nogara, piano

Francis Poulenc — La Fraîcheur et le Feu
Rayon des yeux
Le matin les branches attisent
Tout disparut
Dans les ténèbres du jardin
Unis la fraicheur et le feu
Homme au sourire tendre
La grande rivière que va
Sophia Maekawa, mezzo-soprano
Lucas Nogara, piano

Francis Poulenc — Chansons Villageoises
C’est le joli printemps
Le mendiant

Hugo Wolf — from Mörike-Lieder
Er ist's
Der Feuerreiter
Robert Wente, baritone
Ye In Kwak, piano

Alma Mahler — Selections from Fünf Lieder
Die stille Stadt
Laue Sommernacht
Bei dir ist es traut
Sophia Baete, mezzo-soprano
Lucas Nogara, piano

Joaquín Turina — poema en forma de canciones
Dedicatoria
Nunca olvida…
Cantares
Los dos miedos
Las locas por amor
Daniel Luis Espinal, tenor
Michael Sikich, piano

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Florence Price
Spring
Sacrament
Your Leafy Voice
Youth
Song Is So Old
Laura Santamaria, soprano
Michael Sikich, piano

Samuel Barber — Three songs, Op.10
Rain has fallen
Sleep now
I hear an army
Daniel Luis Espinal, tenor
Michael Sikich, piano

Manuel de Falla — from Siete canciones populares españolas
Jota
Asturiana
Polo
Sophia Maekawa, mezzo-soprano
Lucas Nogara, piano

Alberto Ginastera — Cinco Canciones Populares Argentinas
Chacarera
Triste
Zamba
Arrorró
Gato
Laura Santamaria, soprano
Michael Sikich, piano