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559274 bk Ives US 9/15/08 1:31 PM Page 16 Also available: AMERICAN CLASSICS Charles IVES Songs • 6 Tarrant Moss They are There! 8.559272 8.559273 Thoreau To Edith Walt Whitman Get this free download from Classicsonline! Macdowell: 3 Songs, Op. 60, No. 2: Fair Springtide West London Copy this Promotion Code Nax4tdaQpDvH and go to http://www.classicsonline.com/mpkey/macd7_main. Downloading Instructions 1 Log on to Classicsonline. If you do not have a Classicsonline account yet, please register at Yellow Leaves http://www.classicsonline.com/UserLogIn/SignUp.aspx. 2 Enter the Promotion Code mentioned above. 3 On the next screen, click on “Add to My Downloads”. Various Artists 8.559274 16 559274 bk Ives US 9/15/08 1:31 PM Page 2 1 Tarrant Moss (Text: Rudyard Kipling) (1902) 0:34 ^ Vote for Names! Names! Names! (Ives) (1912) 0:53 Ryan MacPherson, Tenor • Douglas Dickson, Piano Ryan MacPherson, Tenor • Douglas Dickson, Also available: 2 There is a Certain Garden (Anon.) (1897) 1:48 Laura Garritson, Eric Trudel, Pianos Tamara Mumford, Mezzo-soprano & The Waiting Soul (John Newton) (1908) 2:38 Douglas Dickson, Piano Tamara Mumford, Mezzo-soprano 3 There is a Lane (Ives) (1902) 1:11 Douglas Dickson, Piano Kenneth Tarver, Tenor • Douglas Dickson, Piano * Walking (Ives) (1900) 2:44 4 They are There! (Ives) (1942) 2:49 Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano Sara Jakubiak, Lielle Berman, Amanda Ingram, Rebecca ( Walt Whitman (Walt Whitman) (1921) 1:02 Ringle, Michael Cavalieri, Daniel Bircher, Diego Ryan MacPherson, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano Matamoros, Unison voices • Douglas Dickson, Piano ) Waltz (Michael Nolan / Ives) (1894) 1:32 5 The Things our Fathers Loved (Ives) (1917) 1:33 Patrick Carfizzi, Baritone • J. J. Penna, Piano David Pittsinger, Bass • Eric Trudel, Piano ¡ Watchman! (John Bowring) (1913) 1:54 6 Thoreau (Henry David Thoreau) (1915) 2:25 Mary Phillips, Mezzo-soprano • J. J. Penna, Piano Robert Gardner, Baritone • J. J. Penna, Piano ™ Weil’ auf Mir (Nikolas Lenau) (1902) 1:43 7 Those Evening Bells (Thomas Moore) (1907) 1:37 Robert Gardner, Baritone • J. J. Penna, Piano Patrick Carfizzi, Baritone • Eric Trudel, Piano £ West London (Matthew Arnold) (1921) 3:10 8 Through Night and Day Robert Gardner, Baritone • J. J. Penna, Piano (Ives / J.S.B. Monsell) (1897) 2:30 ¢ When Stars are in the Quiet Skies Leah Wool, Mezzo-soprano • Douglas Dickson, Piano (Edward Bulwer-Lytton) (1898) 3:03 9 To Edith (Harmony Twitchell Ives) (1919) 1:33 Kenneth Tarver, Tenor • Laura Garritson, Piano Mary Phillips, Mezzo-soprano • J. J. Penna, Piano ∞ Where the Eagle Cannot See 0 Tolerance (Rudyard Kipling) (1913) 0:57 (Monica Peveril Turnbull) (1906) 2:00 8.559270 Ryan MacPherson, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano Jennifer Casey Cabot, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano ! Tom Sails Away (Ives) (1917) 2:43 § The White Gulls Patrick Carfizzi, Baritone • J. J. Penna, Piano (Anon., trans. Maurice Morris) (1921) 2:50 @ Ein Ton (Peter Cornelius) (1900) 1:25 Mary Phillips, Mezzo-soprano • J. J. Penna, Piano Sumi Kittelberger, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano ¶ Widmung # Two Little Flowers (Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter) (1899) 2:11 (Harmony Twitchell Ives) (1921) 1:30 Sumi Kittelberger, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano • Wie Melodien Zieht es Mir $ Two Slants (Christian and Pagan): (Klaus Groth) (1899) 2:56 a. Duty (Ralph Waldo Emerson) (1921) 0:57 Kenneth Tarver, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano Matthew Plenk, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano ª Wiegenlied (Georg Scherer) (1906) 2:28 8.559271 % Two Slants (Christian and Pagan): Mary Phillips, Mezzo-soprano • Douglas Dickson, Piano b. Vita (Marcus Manilius) (1921) 0:51 º William Will (Susan Benedict Hill) (1896) 4:06 Matthew Plenk, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano Patrick Carfizzi, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano 8.559274 215 8.559274 559274 bk Ives US 9/15/08 1:31 PM Page 14 ⁄ The World’s Highway ‹ Yellow Leaves (Henry Bellamann) (1923) 1:28 Also available: (Harmony Twitchell Ives) (1906) 2:52 Mary Phillips, Mezzo-soprano • Douglas Dickson, Piano Jennifer Casey Cabot, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano ¤ The World’s Wanderers (Percy Bysshe Shelley) (1898) 1:53 Tamara Mumford, Mezzo-soprano Douglas Dickson, Piano Recorded in Sprague Hall, Yale University, New Haven, USA, from May to June, 2005 Producer: Andrew Lang (K&A Productions Ltd.) • Engineer: Eugene Kimball • Editor: Peter Newble Publishers: Merion Music Inc. (tracks 6, 8, 10-15, 19, 23, 24, 26); Peer International Corporation (tracks 1, 3-5, 7, 9, 16, 17, 20-22, 27-29, 31, 32); Associated Music Publishers Inc. (tracks 2, 18, 25, 30, 33) Charles Ives (1874-1954) Songs • 6 When, in 1922, Charles Ives published a volume Although it would be possible to collate Ives’s entitled 114 Songs, he was indirectly drawing attention songs according to type, the alphabetic approach to the fact that the genre had played a central part in his adopted by this edition ensures each volume (of which output. 85 years on and, for all that his wider reputation this is the sixth and last) contains a representative cross- may now rest on his orchestral, chamber and piano section of his achievement. A wide range of poets is set music, songs represent the heart of his creative thinking. (Ives could be highly interventionist when it suited his Nor was that initial volume comprehensive; Ives having purpose), including (mainly early) German settings as written almost 200 songs, of which this present edition well as forays into French and Italian writers. Moreover, includes all those he completed. The expressive variety the temporal distance (1887-1926) traversed by the encountered is accordingly vast: indeed, the gradual songs is as little compared to their stylistic diversity or evolution of Ives’s songwriting, from those drawing their emotional range. overtly on the Austro-German Lieder and English The extent to which Ives reworked songs parlour-song traditions to ones that evince anarchic throughout his career is considerable, whether 8.559269 humour as keenly as others do a profound vision, is substituting a text or reworking the actual music. To this analogous to the evolution of American music over the end, songs with a musical or textual connection are last quarter of the nineteenth and the first quarter of the crosslinked accordingly (i.e. in brackets at the end of the twentieth centuries. relevant paragraph). 8.559274 14 3 8.559274 559274 bk Ives US 9/15/08 1:31 PM Page 4 The setting of Rudyard Kipling’s Tarrant Moss daughter which inspired the composer to essay one of Eric Trudel (1902) uses just two verses, treated in a peremptory the simplest and most tender of his later songs. fashion as if to suggest that the text was merely the A further setting of Rudyard Kipling, Tolerance A native of Quebec, Canada, Eric Trudel graduated from the Quebec Conservatory of nearest one to hand (see also Volume 5, track 27, Naxos (1913) affirms Ives’s life-long belief in the mutual Music with the highest honours. He won the prestigious Prix d’Europe competition, 8.559273). interdependence of men with a rhetorical force that is all which enabled him to study privately with pianists Garrick Ohlsson, Jean-Claude Set to an anonymous text, There is a Certain the greater owing to the song’s sheer brevity. Pennetier, Marc Durand and Louis Lortie. He has worked as a pianist at the Banff Center Garden (1897) has a tripping and irregular piano part The First World War occasioned Tom Sails Away Festival for the Arts, L’Opéra de Montréal, Connecticut Grand Opera, Les Grands Ballets against which the vocal line unfolds a little awkwardly, (1917), an evocation of family parting set to Ives’s own Canadiens, the OK MOZART Festival and the Pro Arte Singers. His faculty though the charm of the song is undoubted. words that ranks among the most potent and finely appointments include the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, the Conservatoire de A revision of an earlier German song, now to Ives’s realised of his ‘childhood recollection’ songs. Musique du Québec in Trois-Rivières, Montreal Opera’s Atelier Lyrique, the Université own text, There is a Lane (1902) is a brief but winsome Although he had used this music elsewhere, Ives’s du Québec-Montréal and formerly Yale University’s School of Music (2001-2005). On setting; the fond nostalgia of its vocal line underscored setting of Peter Cornelius’s Ein Ton (1900) is the most CD he can be heard on the CBC and Star labels. by the piano (see also below, track 27). fitting guise for its bitter-sweet sentiments (see also A late addition to his song canon, They are There! Volume 3, track 9, Naxos 8.559271, and Volume 4, (1942) was Ives’s contribution to the American war track 18, Naxos 8.559272). effort; setting his own (updated) text with a conviction Setting verse by the composer’s wife, Harmony aptly summed up by the subtitle ‘Fighting for the Twitchell Ives, Two Little Flowers (1921) is inscribed to People’s New Free World’. It can be performed (as the children named at the close and its wistful aura is Leah Wool here) by unison voices, and with a lively ad lib made more so by the piano’s gentle discords. instrumental part. Ives left a memorable, breathlessly A typically thoughtful dualism from his later years, Mezzo-soprano Leah Wool is rapidly garnering critical acclaim on stages across the enthusiastic recording (see also Volume 3, track 2, Two Slants (1921) finds Ives drawing a pointed contrast United States. In addition to engagements with the Metropolitan Opera and New York Naxos 8.559271). between the lofty ‘Christian’ sentiment expressed by City Opera, her career highlights include the title rôle in Cendrillon at Central City Opera, Written during the previous world war, The Things Ralph Waldo Emerson in Duty with the introspective Hansel in Hansel and Gretel at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Erika in Vanessa at Central our Fathers Loved (1917) sets Ives’s own text with a ‘Pagan’ musing (and set here to the original Latin) as City Opera, Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette at Toledo Opera, Hermia in A Midsummer fervency which threatens to break through the ascribed to Marcus Manilius in Vita.
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