559271 bk Ives US 6/10/08 2:22 PM Page 12 Frederick Teardo AMERICAN CLASSICS Frederick Teardo is Associate Organist at Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue in New York 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 Institute of Sacred Music, studying organ with Thomas Murray and harpsichord with Richard Rephann. He received his Bachelor of Music degree with Highest Honors from the Charles Eastman 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 Porter and Jeffrey Brillhart. An avid performer, Frederick Teardo has won first prize IVES in 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 program Pipedreams, and in a segment on the revived interest in the pipe organ on ABC World News Tonight. Songs • 3 The Housatonic at Eric Trudel A native of Quebec, Canada, Eric Trudel graduated from the Quebec Conservatory of Stockbridge 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 Immortality 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 In April-Tide 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 CD he can be heard on the CBC and Star labels. The ‘Incantation’ Like a Sick Eagle Get this free download from Classicsonline! Macdowell: 6 Love Songs, Op. 40, No. 2: Sweetheart, Tell Me Lincoln, The Great Copy this Promotion Code NaxadkenYH4O and go to http://www.classicsonline.com/mpkey/mac10_main. Downloading Instructions Commoner 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 8.559271 12 559271 bk Ives US 6/10/08 2:22 PM Page 2 1 Harpalus (Text: Thomas Percy) (1902) 1:13 * In Flanders Fields (John McCrae) (1917) 2:24 Matthew Plenk Lielle Berman, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano Patrick Carfizzi, Baritone • J. J. Penna, Piano 2 He Is There! (Ives) (1917) 4:01 ( In My Beloved’s Eyes (J. M. Chauvenet) (1899) 1:03 Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano The tenor Matthew Plenk made his Metropolitan Opera début in the 2007-2008 season, 3 Her Eyes (Unknown) (1898) 0:56 ) In Summer Fields (Henry G. Chapman) (1898) 3:00 under the baton of James Levine, as the Voice of the Young Sailor in Tristan und Isolde. Kenneth Tarver, Tenor • Douglas Dickson, Piano Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano In the same season he joined the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at The 4 Her Gown was of Vermilion Silk (Anon.) (1897) 2:17 ¡ Met. With Yale Opera he has performed Rodolfo, La Bohème, Ferrando in Così fan Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano In the Alley (Ives) (1896) 2:22 5 His Exaltation (Robert Robinson) (1913) 1:40 Robert Gardner, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano tutte, Flute in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nanki-poo in The Mikado, the Italian tenor Daniel Trevor Bircher, Baritone • Diego Matamoros, ™ In the Mornin’ (Mary Evelyn Stiles) (1929) 2:25 in Capriccio, and Kudrjàs in Janàãek’s Kat’a Kabanova. While earning his Bachelor of Baritone • Patrick Carfizzi, Baritone Tamara Mumford, Mezzo-soprano Music at the Hartt School of Music, he was featured in Don Giovanni, as Don Ottavio. Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano Douglas Dickson, Piano Other rôles include Roméo in Roméo et Juliette, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Frederic 6 The Housatonic at Stockbridge £ The ‘Incantation’ in The Pirates of Penzance, and Sam in Susannah. His concert career has brought (Robert Underwood Johnson) (1908) 3:44 (George Gordon (Lord Byron)) (1921) 1:46 performances with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Hartford Robert Gardner, Baritone • Eric Trudel, Piano Patrick Carfizzi, Baritone • J. J. Penna, Piano 7 Hymn ¢ The Indians (Charles Sprague) (1921) 3:08 Symphony, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Los Angeles based Musica Angelica (Gerhardt Tersteegen, trans. John Wesley) (1921) 2:23 Robert Gardner, Baritone • Eric Trudel, Piano Baroque, Connecticut Chamber Orchestra, Intermezzo Opera, and Bel Canto Northwest. Ian Howell, Countertenor • Douglas Dickson, Piano ∞ The Innate (Ives) (1916) 2:26 With Sir Neville Marriner conducting, he has also performed with Yale Philharmonia. 8 Hymn of Trust (Oliver Wendell Holmes) (1898) 4:07 Robert Gardner, Baritone • J. J. Penna, Piano He was a National Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Guild Competition. Tamara Mumford, Mezzo-soprano § Kären Frederick Teardo, Organ (Parmo Karl Ploug, trans. Clara Kappey) (1900) 1:10 9 I Hear a Tone (Peter Cornelius, trans. C. Hugo Laubach) (1900) 1:26 Kenneth Tarver, Tenor • Douglas Dickson, Piano Sumi Kittelberger, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano ¶ The Last Reader 0 I Knew and Loved a Maid (Anonymous) (1898) 1:53 (Oliver Wendell Holmes Snr.) (1921) 1:58 Kenneth Tarver Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano ! I Travelled Among Unknown Men • The Light that is Felt Kenneth Tarver enjoys a career in the most important international opera theatres and (John Greenleaf Whittier) (1903) 2:01 (William Wordsworth) (1901) 2:03 festivals. He has sung at the Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Berlin, Matthew Plenk, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano Tamara Mumford, Mezzo-soprano Ayano Kabaoka, Glockenspiel Douglas Dickson, Piano Hamburg and Bavarian State Operas, Semperoper Dresden, Royal Opera Covent Garden, @ Ich grolle nicht (Heinrich Heine) (1898) 3:28 ª Like a Sick Eagle (John Keats) (1920) 2:30 the Liceu in Barcelona, the Metropolitan Opera, Naples Teatro San Carlo, and at the Robert Gardner, Baritone • J. J. Penna, Piano Robert Gardner, Baritone • Eric Trudel, Piano Festivals of Aix-en-Provence and Edinburgh. His repertoire encompasses rôles by # I’ll Not Complain (Heinrich Heine, º Lincoln, The Great Commoner Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Gluck, Verdi and Berlioz as well as repertoire by Bach, trans. John Sullivan Dwight) (1898) 3:03 (Edwin Markham/Ives) (1919) 4:04 Beethoven, Debussy, Shchedrin and Stravinsky. Appearances include Rossini’s La donna Robert Gardner, Baritone • J. J. Penna, Piano Robert Gardner, Baritone • Eric Trudel, Piano del lago at the Edinburgh Festival and as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni directed by René $ Ilmenau (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) (1903) 1:45 ⁄ Sumi Kittelberger, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano Die Lotusblume (Heinrich Heine) (1908) 2:54 Jacobs in Brussels, Cologne and Paris, a rôle which he also performed at the Aix-en- % Immortality (Ives) (1921) 1:36 Kenneth Tarver, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano Provence Festival with both Claudio Abbado and Daniel Harding. Other performances Tamara Mumford, Mezzo-soprano ¤ The Love Song of Har Dyal range from Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Berlioz’s Les Douglas Dickson, Piano (Rudyard Kipling) (1899) 2:45 Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict, to Shostakovich’s The Nose with Mstislav Jennifer Casey Cabot, Soprano • Douglas Dickson, Piano ^ In April-Tide (Clifton Scollard) (1897) 1:34 Rostropovich, and Verdi’s Falstaff with Zubin Mehta and Bernard Haitink. Matthew Plenk, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano ‹ Luck and Work & In Autumn (Ives) (1896) 1:28 (Robert Underwood Johnson) (1920) 1:11 Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano Janna Baty, 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 1, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33); Peer International Corporation (tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 11, 14, 16, 18, 21, 26, 30, 32); Associated Music Publishers Inc. (tracks 4, 8, 22, 24); Mercury Music Corp. (track 28) 8.559271 211 8.559271 559271 bk Ives US 6/10/08 2:22 PM Page 10 Tamara Mumford Charles Ives (1874-1954) Songs • 3 The mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford made her Metropolitan Opera début in 2006 as Laura in Luisa Miller. Other opera performances include the title rôles in The Rape of When, in 1922, Charles Ives published a volume A ‘battle-cry’ with a difference, He Is There! (1917) Lucretia under the baton of Lorin Maazel, L’Italiana in Algeri at Palm Beach Opera, La entitled 114 Songs, he was indirectly drawing attention sets out as a marching-song only to develop unpredictably, Cenerentola at Utah Festival Opera, Principessa in Suor Angelica and Ciesca in Gianni to the fact that the genre had played a central part within with its rhythmically volatile piano part and an ‘ad lib’ Schicchi with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, and appearances in his output. 85 years later and, for all that his wider contribution (here from piccolo) which overshoots the end War and Peace, Manon Lescaut, Cavalleria rusticana, Idomeneo, and The Magic Flute, reputation rests on orchestral, chamber and piano music, of the song (see also Volume 6, track 4, Naxos 8.559274). at the Metropolitan Opera.