LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRA
Plath Songs for Voice & Orchestra (1988; Revised 2013)
(*3 *3 *3 *3 - 4 2 3 1 - Timp + 2 - Mezzo-Sopr - strings)
Three Moons for Orchestra (1990, Revised 2017)
(2 2 2 2 - 2 1 2 0 - Timp + 2 - Strings)
Elegy for Cello & Chamber Orchestra (2004)
(1 *2 *3 * 2 - 2 0 0 0 - solo cello - strings)
Audio: Elegy
Les Bijoux: Nocturne for Violin & Orchestra (2011)
(2 2 2 2 - 2 2 0 0 - Timp + 2 - Harp - solo violin - Strings)
"Broadway Boogie-Woogie" – arrangement of Serenade for Chamber Ensemble (2013)
(*3 *3 *3 *3 - 4 3 3 1 - Timp. + 4 - Strings)
Symphony #1 (in One Movement) (2014)
(*3 *3 *3 *3 - 4 3 3 1 - Timp. + 3 - Strings)
MIDI: Energetico
Concertino for Piano & Chamber Orchestra (2014)
(1 1 1 1 - 2 1 1 0 - Timp. + 2 - solo piano - Strings)
MIDI: Poco vivace
MIDI: Andante cantabile
MIDI: Frenetic
Variations for String Orchestra (1991, revised 2014)
MIDI: Variations
Symphony #2 (2016)
(*3 *3 *3 *3 - 4 3 3 1 - Timp. + 3 - Strings)
MIDI: Con passione
MIDI: In Memorium
MIDI: Presto: Quasi un Tango ubriaco
Lacrimosa for String Orchestra (2019)
Nocturnal Transformations (2019)
(2 2 2 2 - 4 2 3 0 - Timp. + 1 - Strings)
MIDI: Nocturnal Transformations
Symphony #3 for String Orchestra (2020)
MIDI: Allegro
MIDI: Larghetto ed appassionato
MIDI: Presto
Symphony #4 for Wind Ensemble "...and the Winds Danced " (2020)
(*3 *3 *5 *3 2 alto sax, 2 tenor sax, 1 bar. sax - 4 3 3 1, 2 Euph - Timp. + 2)
MIDI: Allegro con brio
Love Songs of Ancient Sumeria for Baritone & Chamber Orchestra (2020)
(1 1 1 1 - 1 0 0 0 - 2 perc - harp - baritone voice - 1 1 1 1 1 )
Songs of America for Tenor & Orchestra (2021)
(2 2 2 2 - 2 2 3 1 - timp - 2 perc - strings)
Violin Concerto (2023)
( 2 2 2 2 - 2 2 0 0 - timp - 2 perc - solo vln - strings)
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Variations for String Quartet (1989, Revised 2014)
Serenade for Chamber Ensemble "Broadway Boogie Woogie" -flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin & cello (1991)
Audio: Serenade
Sonata for Clarinet & Piano (1993)
Due Celli (2013)
Audio: Calmly, vivo
Audio: Aria: Lento e cantabile
Nocturne & Dance for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano (2014)
Rhapsody for Reed Quintet (2014
Audio: Rhapsody
Fantasy for Flute, Percussion & Piano (2015)
also available for Flute & Piano
Audio: Fantasy
Romance for Cello & Piano (2016)
Audio: Romance
Lacrimosa for String Quartet (2016)
Audio: Lacrimosa
String Quartet #2 (2017) (with Lacrimosa as 2nd movement)
Duo for Flute & Violin (2017)
Audio: Allegro ma non troppo
Sonata for Cello & Piano (2017)
Tango for Piano Trio (1997-2017)
Inventions for Violin & Viola (2017)
Sonata for Violin & Piano (2019-2020)
String Trio (2020)
Trio for Violin, French horn & Piano (2021) - commissioned by Sierra Ensemble
Piano Quartet (2022)
PIANO SOLO
Prelude & Fantasy (1986)
Piano Sonata (2015)
Bagatelles for Piano (2017)
VOICE WITH PIANO OR CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Earth for soprano & chamber ensemble - Bb clarinet, C trumpet, 2 percussionists, violin & cello (1975)
Pound Songs for soprano, clarinet & bass clarinet (1977)
Three Songs for Baritone & Violin (1979)
Eros for Mezzo Soprano & Cello (1982)
Five Songs of Love for Mezzo-Soprano & Mixed Chamber Ensemble - oboe, clarinet, bass-clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola & cello (1987)
Five Songs for Voice & Piano (1989)
Audio & Video: Five Songs
Sappho Fragments for Soprano & String Trio (2004)
Rumi Songs for Soprano & Chamber Ensemble - flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin & cello (2013)
Michelangelo Songs for Baritone, Oboe & String Trio (2015)
Arabic Love Songs for Soprano, Cello & Piano (2016)
Audio: Oh, My Love
Songs of Majnun Leyla - tenor voice, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano and tambok (2018)
Sappho Fragments II - soprano, flute, Bb clarinet, violin & cello (2020)
CHORAL
Alone for Chorus (SATB) & String Quartet (1975)
Lux aeterna (2014 – SATB)
Madrigals (2015 - SSATB)
CHAMBER OPERA
Song of the Magdalene for soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone, alto-saxophone, cello & piano
(Also arranged for chamber orchestra) (1993)
Audio: Song of the Magdalene
ARRANGEMENTS
Two Tableaux and Malinche’s Aria from Roger Session’s Montezuma - soprano, flute, clarinet,
piano, 2 percussionists, violin & cello (1988, Theodore Presser Company Rental Catalogue)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Freddy Mercury) for cello & piano (2019)
EDITION
Duo for Violin & Cello (1978) by Roger Sessions (1991, Merion Music, Inc.)
DISCOGRAPHY
Elegy for Cello & Chamber Orchestra – San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Matt Haimovitz, cello
and Benjamin Simon conducting (SFCO 2005-2006 Season Highlights CD)
Roger Sessions: Duo for Violin & Cello (1978) – Curtis Macomber, violin and Joel Krosnick, cello
(Koch International Records); also Gil Morgenstern, violin and Darrett Adkins, cello (20th
Century Duos for Violin & Cello – Engine Company #803016)
Roger Sessions: Two Tableaux and Malinche’s Aria from Montezuma - “Music from the
American Academy in Rome,” Susan Narucki, soprano and Jeffrey Milarsky conducting (Bridge
Records).
Richard Aldag: Broadway Boogie-Woogie - Recent Chamber Works - Albany Records (Troy 1764)
Fantasy for Flute, Piano & Percussion; Due Celli; Nocturne & Dance; Arabic Love Songs; Duo for Flute & Violin; Romance for Cello & Piano; Lacrimosa for String Quartet; Serenade for Chamber Ensemble "Broadway Boogie-Woogie"
San Francisco Chronicle Review
“The evening's most potent offering was the premiere of Sappho Fragments, a quartet of short settings for soprano and string trio by San Jose composer Richard Aldag. Aldag underscores the disconnected nature of his texts by writing seamless chordal textures for the strings, in all but one of the movements, then punctuating them with brief, arrestingly rhetorical interjections by the singer. The effect is to leave the listener grasping at the tiny, elusive snippets of Sappho (all we have, tragically, of that unforgettable poetic voice). The string music, meanwhile -- now elegiac, now vivacious -- passes in wordless eloquence, as if hinting at all that has been lost.”
YouTube Comment on Song of the Magdalene
"Ravishing. Those who pretend that music has ended should listen. This is not 'art music,' it is actual music."