Sample Programs
All-Gershwin
Short Story
Three Piano Preludes (arr. Heifetz)
Selections from Porgy and Bess (arr. Heifetz)
Excerpts from An American in Paris (arr. Heifetz)
Girl Crazy Suite (arr. E. Stern)
Leonard Bernstein: Chamber Music
Clarinet Sonata (arr. W. Terwilliger)
Violin Sonata
Piano Trio
Two House Songs (arr. E. Stern)
Four Moments from Candide (arr. E. Stern)
The third movement of Eric Stern’s transcription Four Moments from Candide, from Leonard Bernstein’s 1956 operetta. Commissioned and performed by Opus Two, at New York’s (le) Poisson Rouge, November 2010, for a CD release concert for Naxos.
The Complete Works for Violin and Piano by Aaron Copland
Two Preludes (1919-21, unpublished)
Sonata for Violin and Piano (1943)
Nocturne & Ukelele Serenade (1926)
Duo for Violin and Piano (1977)
Waltz & Celebration from Billy the Kid (1950)
Hoe-Down from Rodeo (1946)
Paul Schoenfield: Chamber Music
Four Souvenirs: Samba, Tango, Tin-Pan Alley, Square Dance
Partita: Overture, Minuet, Rondeau, Prelude, Fughetta, Nigun, Sinfonia
Three Country Fiddle Pieces: Who Let the Cat Out? Pining for Betsy, En Ciudad Juarez
Café Music [trio with cello]
All-Beethoven
Sonata in G Major, Op. 30, No. 3
Sonata in F Major (“Spring”), Op. 24
Sonata in G Major, Op. 96
Vive la France!
Claude Debussy: Sonata
Maurice Ravel: Sonata
Gabriel Fauré: Sonata
¡Celebración Latina!
Joaquín Turina: Sonata
Maurice Ravel: Alborada del Gracioso
Alberto Ginastera: Danzas Argentinas
Isaac Albéniz: Rondeña & Triana (from Iberia)
Manuel de Falla: Suite Populaire Espagnole
Luis González: Wanderer’s Songs
Astor Piazzolla: Tanguano
Paul Schoenfield: Samba & Tango (from Four Souvenirs)
Lowell Liebermann: Chamber Music
Trio No. 1 [with cello]
Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet
Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano
Trio No. 2 [with cello]
Orchestral Repertoire
Beethoven: “Triple” Concerto for Violin, Piano, Cello, and Orchestra, Op. 56
Chausson: Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet, Op. 21
Haydn: Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Orchestra
Liebermann: Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet
Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin, Piano, and [Full or String] Orchestra
William Terwilliger and Andrew Cooperstock are also available to perform solo concertos.
Opus Two, with the addition of other artists, also perform works for larger ensembles (piano trios, piano quartets, piano quintets, etc.).