CHAMBER MUSIC

Milton Babbitt: Two Sonnets (baritone, clarinet, viola, cello)
"Mr. Babbitt's world demands esoteric performing skills. Conservatory solfege was, I suspect, of little use to the baritone Thomas Meglioranza's stunning negotiation of Two Sonnets."
--Bernard Holland, The New York Times
 
 "As sung by the robust baritone, Thomas Meglioranza, the animated and rigorous vocal part sounded almost conversational."
--Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times

"baritone Thomas Meglioranza, whose rich voice gratefully found the lyric impetuousness within the Two Sonnets."
--Sequenza 21

"His 1955 Two Sonnets was given an unusually coherent and warm performance by baritone Thomas Meglioranza, with cellist Fred Sherry, violist Michael Ouzounian and clarinettist Anthony McGill accompanying. The key, it seems, is to understand the way Babbitt chops up syllables and words, broadcasting them up and down the scale with the dependable rhythm of a lawn sprinkler, as a bumpy kind of legato. At least this is what Meglioranza did, and it worked quite well."
--The Star Ledger

Johann Sebastian Bach:
Cantatas 4, 8, 11, 29, 31, 32, 49, 56, 57, 78, 79, 80, 82, 106, 125, 140, 147, 152, 153, 158, 159/4 182, 198, 205, 207, 211, 214, 244a, and others.

JCF Bach: Pygmalion

Samuel Barber: Dover Beach (baritone and string quartet)
"A further bonus to the afternoon concert was the inclusion of the gifted baritone Thomas Meglioranza. The velvet richness of his voice as he sang was indeed most gratifying. There is no doubt why he is much in demand, just the clarity of his diction is a joy to hear. Then to relish the roundness of his tones...Ah, this is a young man who can bring spectators to their feet to affirm his talent with their ovations."
--The Newtown Bee

"I would very much like to hear more of this singer, for his voice was warm in tone and clear in enunciation."
--The News-Times

"His voice is like velvet. Very sexy. If he continues to sing the way he does, he will never require my services."
--Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Sex Therapist, author of Sex for Dummies

Ludwig van Beethoven: various Irish and Scottish Folksongs (voice and piano trio)

Cathy Berberian: Stripsody

Luciano Berio: Cries of London (eight voices)

Leonard Bernstein:
Arias and Barcarolles (baritone, mezzo or soprano, piano four hands)
To what you said (baritone, piano, cello)

Johannes Brahms:
Zwei Gesänge, op. 91 (voice, viola, piano)
Liebesliederwalzer and Neue Liebesliederwalzer (SATB, piano four hands)

Frank Bridge:Three Songs (voice, viola, piano)

Louis-Nicolas Clérambault:
La mort d'Hercule
Poliphême

Jacob Druckman: Laude (baritone, flute, viola, cello)

Manuel de Falla: Psyché (voice, harp, flute, violin, viola, cello)

Gabriel Fauré:
La bonne chanson op. 61 (voice, piano, string quartet)
Pleurs d'or (baritone, mezzo-soprano, piano)

David Froom:
Lament for the City (baritone, percussion, baritone saxophone, guitar, viola, cello, flute)
Amichai Songs (baritone, flute, clarinet, horn, piano, violin, viola, cello)

Charles Fussell: Being Music (baritone and string quartet)

Aaron Grad:
Re: Porter (baritone, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano
Three Cole Porter Songs (arranged for baritone, piano, flute, clarinet, cello and jazz guitar)

John Harbison: Words from Paterson (baritone, flute, oboe, viola, cello, harp, piano)

Lee Hyla: Quarry (baritone and viola)
"baritone Thomas Meglioranza sang with characteristic warmth and eloquence."
--The New York Times

"Thomas Meglioranza, with his excellent diction and innate sense of drama, gave the song as much shape as he could. He did even better when, joined by the superb violist Misha Amory, he essayed Lee Hyla's Quarry, perhaps the finest song."
--New York Newsday

Charles Ives: Sunrise (voice, piano, violin)

Stephen Jaffe: Pedal Point (baritone, harp, four violas, four cellos)

Pierre Jalbert:
Icefield Sonnets (baritone, soprano, violin, cello, piano, percussion)
Four Porter Songs (baritone, soprano, piano)

Louis Karchin: The Gods of Winter (baritone and ensemble)

Aaron Jay Kernis: Brilliant Sky, Infinite Sky (baritone, violin, percussion, piano)

György Kurtág: Hölderin-Gesänge op. 35 (solo baritone, one movement with trombone and tuba)

David Liptak:
Under the Resurrection Palm (baritone, violin)
Ancient Songs (baritone, chamber ensemble)

Francis Poulenc:
Le bal masqué (baritone, piano, violin, cello, trumpet, bassoon, clarinet, oboe, percussion)
Le bestiaire (medium voice, string quartet, flute, clarinet, bassoon)
Colloque (baritone, soprano, piano)

James Primosch: Dark the Star (baritone, piano, percussion, cello, clarinet)

Maurice Ravel:
Chansons Madécasses (voice, flute, cello, piano)
Cinq mélodies populaires grecques (voice, harp)
Trois Poemes de Stéphane Mallarmé (voice, violin, viola, cello, two flutes, two clarinets, piano)

Roger Reynolds: Consider… (baritone, french horn)

Ned Rorem: Aftermath (baritone, piano trio)

Arnold Schoenberg: Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte (baritone, string quartet, piano)

Franz Schubert:
Der Gondelfahrer (TTBB, piano)
Ständchen (medium voice, TTBB, piano)

Erwin Schulhoff: Die Wolkenpumpe (baritone, clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, trumpet, percussion)

Robert Schumann:
various duets (baritone and mezzo/soprano)
Spanische Liebeslieder op. 138 (SATB, piano four hands)

Ludwig Spohr: Sechs Lieder op. 154 (baritone, violin, piano)

Igor Stravinsky: Three Songs from William Shakespeare (voice, flute, viola, cello)

Sir Arthur Sullivan: The Lost Chord (voice, piano, harmonium)

Ralph Vaughn Williams: Ten Blake Songs (voice & violin)

Stefan Wolpe: Quintet with Voice (baritone, clarinet, horn, harp, cello, piano)

Charles Wuorinen:
Moon Clock (baritone, bassoon)

Various (Melinda Wagner, Stephen Jaffe, Eric Moe, David Kirkland Garner):
A Forest Unfolding (baritone, soprano, and chamber ensemble)