559272 bk Ives US 14/7/08 12:15 Page 12 Eric Trudel AMERICAN CLASSICS A native of Quebec, Canada, Eric Trudel graduated from the Quebec Conservatory of 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 Festival for the Arts, L’Opéra de Montréal, Connecticut Grand Opera, Les Grands Ballets Charles 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 IVES 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. Songs • 4 Leah Wool Majority 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 City Opera, her career highlights include the title rôle in Cendrillon at Central City Opera, Memories 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 Night’s Dream at Utah Opera, and Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at Yale Opera. Mists Concert appearances have included Handel’s Messiah in her Carnegie Hall début, and Haydn’s Theresienmesse with the New Jersey Symphony. My Native Land A Night Song Get this free download from Classicsonline! Old Home Day Griffes: Three Poems of Fiona McLeod: The Rose of the Night Copy this Promotion Code Nax9YMg3jsR6 and go to http://www.classicsonline.com/mpkey/grif4_main. The Only Son Downloading Instructions 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 8.559272 12 559272 bk Ives US 14/7/08 12:15 Page 2 1 Majority (Text: Ives) (1921) 7:07 & The New River (Ives) (1921) 1:03 Enrico Sartori Robert Gardner, Baritone • Eric Trudel, Piano David Pittsinger, Bass • Eric Trudel, Piano 2 Maple Leaves (Thomas Bailey Aldrich) (1920) 0:56 * Night of Frost in May (George Meredith) (1899) 1:24 In the 2002/03 season the Italian flautist Enrico Sartori was principal flute at the Academy of Ian Howell, Countertenor • Douglas Dickson, Piano Tamara Mumford, Mezzo-soprano 3 Marie (1) (Rudolf Gottschall) (1896) 2:03 the Teatro alla Scala of Milan. He maintains an intense concert schedule as a soloist in Europe Douglas Dickson, Piano and the United States, and has played as a guest artist with many orchestras, including the Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano ( 4 Marie (2) A Night Song (Thomas Moore) (1895) 1:08 Orchestra Sinfonica della Valle d’Aosta (Italy), Chamber Orchestra Dumitrescu (Romania), (Rudolf Gottschall, trans. Elisabeth Rücker) (1901) 2:38 Ian Howell, Countertenor • Douglas Dickson, Piano Maribor’s Festival Orchestra (Slovenia), and the University of Nebraska Symphony Robert Gardner, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano ) A Night Thought (Thomas Moore) (1916) 1:00 Orchestra, among others. He is the winner of many national and international competitions 5 Memories: a. Very Pleasant (Ives) (1897) 0:50 Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano such as the XIV Franz Schubert International Competition, the Genoa International Leah Wool, Mezzo-soprano • Douglas Dickson, Piano ¡ No More (William Winter) (1897) 3:55 Competition, and the Festival Mid-South. Enrico Sartori took his master’s degree at Yale 6 Memories: b. Rather Sad (Ives) (1897) 1:55 Lielle Berman, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano University in 2005 and his bachelor’s degree at the Turin Conservatorio G. Verdi in 2001 with Leah Wool, Mezzo-soprano • Douglas Dickson, Piano ™ Nov. 2, 1920 (An Election) (Ives) (1921) 3:44 full honours. Until 2007 he held a scholarship from the De Sono – Music Association financed 7 Minnelied Robert Gardner, Baritone • J. J. Penna, Piano by the Praemium Imperiale Grant for Young Artists (Japan). In September 2007 he joined the (Ludwig H. C. Hölty, rev. J. H. Voss) (1901) 2:17 £ An Old Flame (Ives) (1898) 2:23 wind ensemble Campo Aperto, with concerts in Mexico in summer 2008. He is currently Patrick Carfizzi, Baritone • J. J. Penna, Piano working on his DMA at Stony Brook University, New York. 8 Mirage (Christina Rossetti) (1902) 1:13 Mary Phillips, Mezzo-soprano • J. J. Penna, Piano Leah Wool, Mezzo-soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano ¢ Old Home Day (Ives) (1920) 4:48 9 Mists (Harmony Twichell) (1910) 1:45 Patrick Carfizzi, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano Jennifer Casey Cabot, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano Enrico Sartori, Flute 0 My Dear Old Mother (Aasmund Olafsson Vinje, ∞ The Old Mother (Aasmund Olafsson Vinje, Kenneth Tarver trans. Frederick Corder) (1902) 2:26 trans. Frederick Corder/Ives) (1898) 2:55 Michael Cavalieri, Baritone • Douglas Dickson, Piano Matthew Plenk, Tenor • Douglas Dickson, Piano Kenneth Tarver enjoys a career in the most important international opera theatres and ! My Lou Jennine (Anon.) (1894) 1:35 § Omens and Oracles (Owen Meredith) (1902) 2:16 Kenneth Tarver, Tenor • Laura Garritson, Piano festivals. He has sung at the Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Berlin, @ My Native Land (1a) (Heinrich Heine, Kenneth Tarver, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano Hamburg and Bavarian State Operas, Semperoper Dresden, Royal Opera Covent Garden, trans. Eduard Lassen) (1900) 2:24 ¶ On Judges’ Walk (Arthur Symons) (1901) 1:29 the Liceu in Barcelona, the Metropolitan Opera, Naples Teatro San Carlo, and at the David Pittsinger, Bass • Eric Trudel, Piano Kenneth Tarver, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano Festivals of Aix-en-Provence and Edinburgh. His repertoire encompasses rôles by # My Native Land (1b) (Heinrich Heine, • On the Antipodes (Ives) (1923) 3:01 Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Gluck, Verdi and Berlioz as well as repertoire by Bach, trans. Eduard Lassen) (1900) 1:30 Ryan MacPherson, Tenor • Douglas Dickson Beethoven, Debussy, Shchedrin and Stravinsky. Appearances include Rossini’s La donna Tamara Mumford, Mezzo-soprano and Laura Garritson, Piano 4 hands del lago at the Edinburgh Festival and as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni directed by René Douglas Dickson, Piano ª On the Counter (Ives) (1920) 1:34 Jacobs in Brussels, Cologne and Paris, a rôle which he also performed at the Aix-en- $ My Native Land (2) (Heinrich Heine, Lielle Berman, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano Provence Festival with both Claudio Abbado and Daniel Harding. Other performances trans. Eduard Lassen/Ives) (1900) 2:38 º The One Way (Ives) (1923) 2:50 range from Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Berlioz’s Les Sara Jakubiak, Soprano • Douglas Dickson, Piano Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict, to Shostakovich’s The Nose with Mstislav % Nature’s Way (Ives) (1909) 1:23 Kenneth Tarver, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano Lielle Berman, Soprano • Eric Trudel, Piano ⁄ The Only Son (Rudyard Kipling) (1898) 0:46 Rostropovich, and Verdi’s Falstaff with Zubin Mehta and Bernard Haitink. ^ Naught That Country Needeth Kenneth Tarver, Tenor • Eric Trudel, Piano (Henry Alford) (1898) 4:20 ¤ Over all the Treetops (Harmony Twichell) (1903) 1:55 Robert Gardner, Baritone • J. J. Penna, Piano Sumi Kittelberger, Soprano • 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, 9, 11, 14, 17, 18, 20, 22, 27, 28, 31); Peer International Corporation (tracks 3-8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 23, 24, 26, 29, 32); Associated Music Publishers Inc. (tracks 2, 21, 25, 30) 8.559272 211 8.559272 559272 bk Ives US 14/7/08 12:15 Page 10 Mary Phillips Charles Ives (1874-1954) Songs • 4 American mezzo Mary Phillips’s opera appearances include the Metropolitan Opera, Canadian Opera, Barcelona and Edinburgh in rôles of Wagner, Strauss, Handel, Mozart, When, in 1922, Charles Ives published a volume entitled Aldrich, its limpidity offset by the teasing gesture that Verdi, Bizet and Heggie. Her concert appearances with the New York, Los Angeles, and 114 Songs, he was indirectly drawing attention to the fact points up the ‘moral’ of the close. Hong Kong philharmonic and symphony orchestras in Atlanta, Dallas, Honolulu, Houston, that the genre had played a central part in his output. 85 To a poem by Rudolf Gottschall, Marie (1896) is Indianapolis, Phoenix, and Pittsburgh have included repertoire by Glass, Mahler, years on and, for all that his wider reputation rests on his among the most unaffected of Ives’s German songs, voice Szymanowski, Prokofiev, Bruckner, de Falla and Tchaikovsky. She has appeared in recital at orchestral, chamber and piano music, the songs still and piano in poised accord (see also below, track 4). Carnegie Hall, the Marilyn Horne Foundation and New York Festival of Song. represent the heart of his creative thinking. Nor was that While not superior, the English version of Marie initial volume comprehensive; Ives having written almost (1901, translated by Elisabeth Rücker) does open-out 200 songs, of which this present edition includes all of the song’s overall expressive range (see also above, those he completed. The expressive variety encountered track 3). is accordingly vast: indeed, the gradual evolution of Among the earliest instances of Ives’s penchant for Ives’s songwriting, from those which draw overtly on the contrast, Memories (1897) consists of two separate David Pittsinger Austro-German Lieder and English parlour-song tradition impressions set to his own words.