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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. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzXpNSgNDoM
Antonio Vivaldi's "Combatta un gentil cor" - aria from the opera TITO MANLIO, RV 778 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upXSv5cUOn0
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 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nVuhDUCMOc
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
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. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzXpNSgNDoM
Antonio Vivaldi's "Combatta un gentil cor" - aria from the opera TITO MANLIO, RV 778 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upXSv5cUOn0
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 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nVuhDUCMOc
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