You mean aside from the obvious choice - i.e., "Let the bright seraphim" from Handel's SAMSON?


Note that the baroque suggestions would all sound even better if you could also enlist a harpsichord (or at least a lute or baroque guitar) to flesh out the continuo parts.


J.S. Bach's Cantata BWV 51, "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen", is a solo cantata for soprano, obbligato trumpet, 2 violins, viola, and continuo. Traditionally, the continuo instrument would be the organ - but there is no reason why the unrealised
continuo can't be played, instead, by the cello in your string quartet. There's a free version of the full score online that you can look at - http://imslp.org/wiki/Cantatas,_BWV_...nn_Sebastian); Breitkopf & Haertel probably publish the string and continuo parts. -



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COdGqw7hHEQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXpWe3I6IAo


Alessandro Scarlatti's solo cantata for soprano, "Su le sponde del Tebro", is scored for soprano, 2 violins, trumpet, and continuo. Again, if your violist and cellist are skillful enough they should be able to "realise" the continuo
part. -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEmz3hLBtGU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5MXDUXhVgk


Baldassare Galuppi's "Alla tromba della Fama" is scored for soprano, strings, trumpet, and continuo. -


Antonio Vivaldi's "Combatta un gentil cor" - aria from the opera TITO MANLIO, RV 778 -


Other baroque works (solo cantatas, concert arias, solo motets) for soprano, strings, trumpet, and continuo:


Jan Dismas Zelenka: Psalm 112 in F major "Laudate pueri Dominum", ZWV 82 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiTtiGrq-vI

(this is the ZWV 81 version for tenor)


Alessandro Scarlatti: Il Giardino di amore


Alessandro Melani: Quai bellici accenti; Qual mormorio giocondo


Johann Rosenmuller: Ad pugnas, ad bella; O felicissimus paradysi aspectus


MORE RECENT WORKS


Alan Hovhaness: Avak the Healer - solo cantata for soprano, trumpet, and strings, Op. 65


Harald Genzmer: "The Mystic Trumpeter" (1978) - cantata for soprano, trumpet, and strings


Carola Baukholt: "Blinder Fleck" (2005) - for mezzo-soprano, trumpet, and strings


Caspar Johannes Walter: "Angst und Ahnung" (2002) - for mezzo-soprano, trumpet, and strings -




Dexter Morill: "Just a Shape to Fill a Lack" (1981) - for soprano, trumpet, timpani, and strings


These should give you some ideas to investigate.


Karen Mercedes