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559273 bk Ives US 8/26/08 3:28 PM Page 16 Also available: AMERICAN CLASSICS Charles IVES Songs • 5 Premonitions Requiem 8.559271 8.559272 Rosamunde Slugging a Vampire Soliloquy Get this free download from Classicsonline! Griffes: Three Poems of Fiona McLeod: The Rose of the Night A Son of Gambolier Copy this Promotion Code Nax9YMg3jsR6 and go to http://www.classicsonline.com/mpkey/grif4_main. Downloading Instructions 1 Log on to Classicsonline. If you do not have a Classicsonline account yet, please register at Sunrise 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 8.559273 16 559273 bk Ives US 8/26/08 3:28 PM Page 2 1 Paracelsus (Text: Robert Browning) (1921) 4:06 ^ Rosenzweige (Karl Stieler) (1902) 1:09 Robert Gardner, Baritone • Eric Trudel, Piano Kenneth Tarver, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano Also available: 2 Peaks (Henry Bellamann) (1923) 2:04 & Rough Wind (Percy Bysshe Shelley) (1902) 1:09 Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano Ryan MacPherson, Tenor • Douglas Dickson 3 A Perfect Day (Anon.) (1902) 2:41 and Laura Garritson, Piano 4 hands Janna Baty, Mezzo-soprano • Douglas Dickson, Piano * A Scotch Lullaby (Charles Edmund Merrill Jr) 4 Pictures (Monica Peveril Turnbull) (1906) 3:23 (1896) 2:17 Janna Baty, Mezzo-soprano • J. J. Penna, Piano Lielle Berman, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano 5 Premonitions ( A Sea Dirge (William Shakespeare) (1925) 2:30 (Robert Underwood Johnson) (1921) 2:10 Patrick Carfizzi, Baritone • Eric Trudel, Piano Mary Phillips, Mezzo-soprano • J. J. Penna, Piano ) The Sea of Sleep (Anon.) (1903) 1:35 6 Qu’il m’irait bien Ian Howell, Countertenor • Douglas Dickson, Piano (Anon., trans. Moreau Delano) (1897) 1:16 ¡ The See’r (Ives) (1920) 0:51 Leah Wool, Mezzo-soprano • J. J. Penna, Piano Robert Gardner, Baritone • J. J. Penna, Piano 7 The Rainbow (So May It Be!) ™ Sehnsucht (Christian Winther, (William Wordsworth) (1921) 1:51 trans. Edmund Lobedanz) (1902) 3:05 Ryan MacPherson, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano Sumi Kittelberger, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano 8 Religion £ September (Folgone da San Gimignano, (Elizabeth York Case / James T. Bixby) (1910) 1:09 trans. Dante Gabriel Rossetti) (1920) 1:05 David Pittsinger, Bass • Douglas Dickson, Piano Ryan MacPherson, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano 9 Remembrance ¢ Serenity (James Greenleaf Whittier) (1919) 2:48 (Ives / William Wordsworth) (1921) 0:47 Ian Howell, Countertenor • Douglas Dickson, Piano Kenneth Tarver, Tenor • Douglas Dickson, Piano ∞ The Side Show (Ives) (1921) 0:34 0 Requiem (Robert Louis Stevenson) (1911) 2:16 Leah Wool, Mezzo-soprano • J. J. Penna, Piano Robert Gardner, Baritone • J. J. Penna, Piano § Slow March ! Resolution (Ives) (1921) 0:35 (Ives family / Lynne Brewster) (1887) 1:40 Leah Wool, Mezzo-soprano • Douglas Dickson, Piano David Pittsinger, Bass • Douglas Dickson, Piano @ Rock of Ages ¶ Slugging a Vampire (Ives) (1902) 0:26 (Augustus Montague Toplady) (1892) 4:45 Robert Gardner, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano Mary Phillips, Mezzo-soprano • J. J. Penna, Piano • Soliloquy (Ives) (1916) 1:05 # Romanzo (di Central Park) (Leigh Hunt) (1911) 2:17 Lielle Berman, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano Lielle Berman, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano ª A Son of a Gambolier (Anon.) (1895) 3:38 $ Rosamunde (1) (Helmine von Chézy) (1898) 2:06 Ryan MacPherson, Tenor • Douglas Dickson, Piano Sumi Kittelberger, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano Ryan MacPherson, Lielle Berman, Daniel Bircher, 8.559270 % Rosamunde (2) (Helmine von Chézy, Sara Jakubiak, Kazoos • Jooyeon Kong, Violin trans. Pierre Jean de Bélanger) (1901) 2:14 Kelli Kathman, Piccolo • Ryan Johnstone, Cary Parker, Leah Wool, Mezzo-soprano • J. J. Penna, Piano Trombones 8.559273 215 8.559273 559273 bk Ives US 8/26/08 3:28 PM Page 14 º Song (Hartley Coleridge) (1897) 1:40 fi The Song of the Dead (Rudyard Kipling) (1898) 2:42 Also available: Kenneth Tarver, Tenor • Laura Garritson, Piano David Pittsinger, Bass • Douglas Dickson, Piano ⁄ A Song – For Anything: a. Hear My Prayer, O Lord fl Songs my Mother Taught Me (Psalm 51, trans. Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady) (Adolf Heyduk, trans. Natalie Macfarren) (1900) 2:46 (1888) 1:06 Mary Phillips, Mezzo-soprano • J. J. Penna, Piano Tamara Mumford, Mezzo-soprano ‡ The South Wind (Harmony Twichell) (1908) 2:24 Douglas Dickson, Piano Tamara Mumford, Mezzo-soprano ¤ A Song – For Anything: Douglas Dickson, Piano b. When the Waves Softly Sigh (Ives) (1888) 1:00 ° Spring Song (Harmony Twichell) (1907) 1:20 Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano Jennifer Casey Cabot, Soprano • Douglas Dickson, Piano ‹ A Song – For Anything: c. Yale, Farewell! · Sunrise (realised by John Kirkpatrick) (Ives) (1888) 0:56 (Ives) (1926) 5:12 Patrick Carfizzi, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano Tamara Mumford, Mezzo-soprano › Song for Harvest Season Douglas Dickson, Piano • Jooyeon Kong, Violin (Greville Phillimore) (1894) 1:49 ‚ Swimmers (Louis Untermeyer) (1915) 1:35 Jennifer Casey Cabot, Soprano • Frederick Teardo, Organ Patrick Carfizzi, Baritone • Eric Trudel, 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 1, 5, 7, 10, 11, 17, 23, 27, 28, 30, 34, 37, 40); Peer International Corporation (tracks 6, 8, 9, 13-16, 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 31-33, 35, 36, 38); Associated Music Publishers Inc. (tracks 2-4, 12, 18, 19, 21, 24); C.F. Peters Corporation (track 39) Charles Ives (1874-1954) Songs • 5 When, in 1922, Charles Ives published a volume evolution of American music over the last quarter of the entitled 114 Songs, he was indirectly drawing attention nineteenth and first quarter of the twentieth centuries. to the fact that the genre played a central part in his Although it would be possible to collate Ives’s output. 85 years on and, for all that his wider reputation songs according to type, the alphabetic approach may rest on orchestral, chamber and piano music, songs adopted by this edition ensures each volume (of which represent the heart of his creative thinking. Nor was that this disc is the fifth) contains a representative cross- initial volume comprehensive; Ives having written section of his achievement. A wide range of poets is set, nearly 200 songs, of which this edition includes all those including a number of (mainly early) German settings as he completed. The expressive variety is vast: indeed, the well as forays into French and Italian writers. The 8.559269 gradual evolution of Ives’s songwriting, from those temporal distance (1887-1926) traversed by these songs drawing on Austro-German Lieder and English parlour- is as little compared to their stylistic diversity or their song traditions to ones that evince anarchic humour as emotional range. keenly as others do profound vision, is analogous to the The extent to which Ives reworked songs 8.559273 14 3 8.559273 559273 bk Ives US 8/26/08 3:28 PM Page 4 throughout his career is considerable, whether With an epigraph by William Wordsworth (“The Eric Trudel substituting a text or reworking the actual music. To this music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no end, songs with a musical or textual connection are more”), Remembrance (1921) sets Ives’ own evocation A native of Quebec, Canada, Eric Trudel graduated from the Quebec Conservatory of crosslinked accordingly (i.e. in brackets at the end of the of his father’s playing as heard from across a lake. Music with the highest honours. He won the prestigious Prix d’Europe competition, relevant paragraph). One of the most uncompromising songs of Ives’s which enabled him to study privately with pianists Garrick Ohlsson, Jean-Claude One of Ives’s most finely realized later songs, middle years, Requiem (1911) sets Robert Louis Pennetier, Marc Durand and Louis Lortie. He has worked as a pianist at the Banff Center Paracelcus (1921) is a wide-ranging setting of verse by Stevenson’s ‘poem within a poem’ with a forceful Festival for the Arts, L’Opéra de Montréal, Connecticut Grand Opera, Les Grands Ballets Robert Browning on the relationship of human and rhetoric thrown into relief by the echo effects at the end. Canadiens, the OK MOZART Festival and the Pro Arte Singers. His faculty divine thought; one unfolding in a gradual decrescendo Set to his own lines, Resolution (1921) is among the appointments include the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, the Conservatoire de as the emphasis alters from opposing strength to mutual shortest of Ives’s later songs, telling of the need for Musique du Québec in Trois-Rivières, Montreal Opera’s Atelier Lyrique, the Université love. Faith to guide one on life’s journey. du Québec-Montréal and formerly Yale University’s School of Music (2001-2005). On From among Ives’s last songs, Peaks (1923) sets a One of Ives’s first songs, Rock of Ages (1892) sets CD he can be heard on the CBC and Star labels. poem by Henry Bellamann with an ambivalence in Augustus Montague Toplady’s text as a ‘Sacred Solo’; terms of tonality and texture that serves to point up the with a piano part whose methodical and part-writing essential ambiguity of the author’s vision. suggests that it may have been conceived for organ. With its anonymous text, A Perfect Day (1902) is Setting lines by Leigh Hunt, the ingratiating veneer not a setting of the evergreen Victorian ballad but a song of Romanzo (di Central Park) (1911) belies this satire whose wistful longing combined with undoubted on the ‘commercial’ love-song: one made explicit by Leah Wool melodic poise make it highly appealing in its own right. Ives’s jibe at Victor Herbert in the postscript.