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Download Booklet 559270 bk Ives US 5/13/08 11:07 AM Page 12 numerous competitions. He has performed across the United States, and has also been a featured performer at Regional and National Conventions of the American Guild of Organists and Organ Historical Society, on the NPR AMERICAN CLASSICS program Pipedreams, and in a segment on the revived interest in the pipe organ on ABC World News Tonight. Eric Trudel A native of Quebec, Canada, Eric Trudel graduated from the Quebec Conservatory of Charles Music with the highest honours. He won the prestigious Prix d’Europe competition, which enabled him to study privately with pianists Garrick Ohlsson, Jean-Claude Pennetier, Marc Durand and Louis Lortie. He has worked as a pianist at the Banff Center IVES Festival for the Arts, L’Opéra de Montréal, Connecticut Grand Opera, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the OK MOZART Festival and the Pro Arte Singers. His faculty appointments include the Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec in Trois-Rivières, Montreal Opera’s Atelier Lyrique, the Université du Québec-Montréal and formerly Yale University’s School of Music (2001-2005). On Songs • 2 CD he can be heard on the CBC and Star labels. Leah Wool December Mezzo-soprano Leah Wool is rapidly garnering critical acclaim on stages across the United States. In addition to engagements with the Metropolitan Opera and New York Evening City Opera, her career highlights include the title rôle in Cendrillon at Central City Opera, Hansel in Hansel and Gretel at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Erika in Vanessa at Central City Opera, Stéphano in Roméo et Juliette at Toledo Opera, Hermia in A Midsummer Eyes so Dark Night’s Dream at Utah Opera, and Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at Yale Opera. Concert appearances have included Handel’s Messiah in her Carnegie Hall début, and Haydn’s Theresienmesse with the New Jersey Symphony. Far in the Wood La Fede General William Booth Get this free download from Classicsonline! Enters into Heaven MacDowell: Songs: In the Woods Copy this Promotion Code NaxAMSfEMkFx and go to http://www.classicsonline.com/mpkey/mac31_main. Downloading Instructions Grantchester 1 Log on to Classicsonline. If you do not have a Classicsonline account yet, please register at 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 8.559270 12 559270 bk Ives US 5/13/08 11:07 AM Page 2 Charles Matthew Plenk IVES The tenor Matthew Plenk made his Metropolitan Opera début in the 2007-2008 season, under the baton of James Levine, as the Voice of the Young Sailor in Tristan und Isolde. (1874-1954) In the same season he joined the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at The 1 December $ A Farewell to Land (Lord Byron) (1909) 1:53 Met. With Yale Opera he has performed Rodolfo, La Bohème, Ferrando in Così fan (Text: Folgore da San Gimignano) (1913) 1:10 Leah Wool, Mezzo-soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano tutte, Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nanki-poo in The Mikado, the Italian tenor Janna Baty, Mezzo-soprano • J. J. Penna, Piano % La Fede (Ludovico Ariosto) (1920) 0:54 in Capriccio, and Kudrjàs in Janàãek’s Kat’a Kabanova. While earning his Bachelor of 2 Disclosure (Ives) (1921) 1:14 Leah Wool, Mezzo-soprano • J. J. Penna, Piano Music at the Hartt School of Music, he was featured in Don Giovanni, as Don Ottavio. Other rôles include Roméo in Roméo et Juliette, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Frederic Matthew Plenk, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano ^ Feldeinsamkeit (Hermann Allmers) (1898) 2:56 3 Down East (Ives) (1919) 3:12 in The Pirates of Penzance, and Sam in Susannah. His concert career has brought Robert Gardner, Baritone • Laura Garritson, Piano Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano performances with the Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi di Milano, Hartford 4 Dreams (Baroness Porteous) (1897) 4:01 & Flag Song (Henry Strong Durand) (1900) 2:23 Symphony, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Los Angeles based Musica Angelica Kenneth Tarver, Tenor • Douglas Dickson, Piano David Pittsinger, Bass • Eric Trudel, Piano Baroque, Connecticut Chamber Orchestra, Intermezzo Opera, and Bel Canto Northwest. 5 Du alte Mutter * Forward into Light (Henry Alford) (1902) 4:00 With Sir Neville Marriner conducting, he has also performed with Yale Philharmonia. (Aasmund Olafsson Vinje) (1902) 2:27 Jennifer Casey Cabot, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano He was a National Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Guild Competition. Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano ( Friendship (Anonymous) (1898) 3:23 6 Du bist wie eine Blume (Heinrich Heine) (1897) 1:50 Matthew Plenk, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano Kenneth Tarver Tamara Mumford, Mezzo-soprano ) Frühlingslied (Heinrich Heine) (1898) 2:06 Kenneth Tarver enjoys a career in the most important international opera theatres and Douglas Dickson, Piano Heather Buck, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano 7 Élégie (Louis Gallet) (1901) 4:56 festivals. He has sung at the Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Berlin, Hamburg ¡ General William Booth Enters into Heaven Leah Wool, Mezzo-soprano • J. J. Penna, Piano and Bavarian State Operas, Semperoper Dresden, Royal Opera Covent Garden, the Liceu in 8 The Ending Year (Unknown) (1902) 3:02 (Vachel Lindsay) (1914) 5:37 Barcelona, the Metropolitan Opera, Naples Teatro San Carlo, and at the Festivals of Aix-en- Sara Jakubiak, Soprano • Douglas Dickson, Piano David Pittsinger, Bass • Douglas Dickson, Piano Provence and Edinburgh. His repertoire encompasses rôles by Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, 9 Evening (John Milton) (1921) 2:05 ™ God Bless and Keep Thee (Anonymous) (1898) 2:30 Gluck, Verdi and Berlioz as well as repertoire by Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Shchedrin and Mary Phillips, Mezzo-soprano • J. J. Penna, Piano David Pittsinger, Bass • Douglas Dickson, Piano Stravinsky. Appearances include Rossini’s La donna del lago at the Edinburgh Festival and 0 Evidence (Ives) (1910) 1:44 £ Grace (Anonymous) (1900) 1:39 as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni directed by René Jacobs in Brussels, Cologne and Paris, a Matthew Plenk, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano Tamara Mumford, Mezzo-soprano rôle which he also performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival with both Claudio Abbado and Daniel Harding. Other performances range from Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Die Entführung ! Eyes so Dark (Nikolas Lenau/ Douglas Dickson, Piano William Joseph Westbrook) (1902) 2:09 aus dem Serail, and Berlioz’s Les Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict, to Shostakovich’s The ¢ Grantchester (Rupert Brooke) (1920) 3:12 Nose with Mstislav Rostropovich, and Verdi’s Falstaff with Zubin Mehta and Bernard Matthew Plenk, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano @ Far from my Heav’nly Home Haitink. ∞ (Traditional) (1893) 4:28 The Greatest Man Tamara Mumford, Mezzo-soprano (Anne Timoney Collins) (1921) 1:25 Frederick Teardo Frederick Teardo, Organ Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano # Far in the Wood (Anonymous) (1900) 1:46 § Gruss (Heinrich Heine) (1898) 1:35 Frederick Teardo is Associate Organist at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue in New York Lielle Berman, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano Sumi Kittelberger, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano City, where he accompanies the church’s renowned Choir of Men and Boys. He received both the Master of Music and Master of Musical Arts degrees from the Yale School of Music and Recorded in Sprague Hall, Yale University, New Haven, USA, from May to June, 2005 Institute of Sacred Music, studying organ with Thomas Murray and harpsichord with Richard Producer: Andrew Lang (K&A Productions Ltd.) • Engineer: Eugene Kimball • Editor: Peter Newble Rephann. He received his Bachelor of Music degree with Highest Honors from the Eastman Publishers: Merion Music Inc. (tracks 1, 6, 14-16, 21, 25); Peer International Corporation School of Music, where he studied organ with David Higgs. His other teachers have included Stephen Roberts and Haskell Thomson. He has also studied improvisation with William (tracks 2-5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 17, 18, 20, 24, 26); Associated Music Publishers Inc. (tracks 9, 12, 19, 22, 23) Porter and Jeffrey Brillhart. An avid performer, Frederick Teardo has won first prize in 8.559270 211 8.559270 559270 bk Ives US 5/13/08 11:07 AM Page 10 J.J. Penna Charles Ives (1874-1954) Songs • 2 J.J. Penna has performed in recital with such notable singers as Kathleen Battle, Harolyn Blackwell, David Daniels, Denyce Graves, Kevin McMillan, Florence Quivar, Andreas When, in 1922, Charles Ives published a volume A setting of Ives’s own text, Disclosure (1921) is Scholl, Sharon Sweet, Christopher Trakas, Indra Thomas and Ying Huang. He has been heard entitled 114 Songs, he was likely drawing attention to another of the composer’s speculations on the at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., at Weil Hall and Merkin Recital Hall in New the fact that the genre had played a central part in his transcendental, its piano writing wholly subservient to York City, at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, in Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, output. 85 years on and, for all that his wider reputation the fervency of the recitative-like vocal part. as well as on concert tours throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, the Far East, South may now rest on his orchestral, chamber and piano A further Ives setting, Down East (1919) opens with America, and the former Soviet Union. He has performed and held fellowships at prestigious music, it is the songs that represent the heart of his an ominous preface whose tonal vagueness gives the festivals such as Tanglewood, Chautauqua Institution, Banff Center for the Arts, Norfolk, the creative thinking. Nor was that initial volume at all evocation that follows the sense of a flash-back to a Music Academy of the West, and San Francisco Opera Center’s Merola Program, and has comprehensive; Ives having written almost 200 songs, more innocent and less troubling time.
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