Tippet Rise Opus 2017 is the second compilation album to emerge from the summer music season at Montana's Tippet Rise Arts Center, which features performance spaces of acoustic perfection amidst a sculpture-laden terrain of awe-inspiring beauty, nestled against a backdrop of the Beartooth Mountains near Yellowstone National Park. From the Pentatone Oxingale Series, Tippet Rise OPUS 2017 inhabits the sphere of Daydreams, a sculpture by Patrick Dougherty where natural saplings organically emerge out of an eroding schoolhouse. In this whimsical, imaginary world, composers open a visionary portal to the past and future. In the jazz-infused First Club Date, a world premiere by Aaron Jay Kernis and a Tippet Rise commission, cellist Matt Haimovitz and pianist Andrea Lam illuminate the musical playground of a boy on the cusp of manhood. The new work is dedicated to Haimovitz and the composer's cellist-son Jonah, with double-entendre movement titles like "Puppy Love" and "Matt's Monkish Machinations." Violinist Caroline Goulding and pianist David Fung embody the youthful spirit of George Enescu's Impressions from Childhood, while a pastoral mood reigns in EugÃ¨ne Bozza's Image for solo flute, performed by Jessica Sindell. An epic expansiveness saturates Red Arc / Blue Veil by John Luther Adams, featuring electronics and a wide array of sounds from pianist Vicky Chow and percussionist Doug Perkins. Opening the album is Jeffrey Kahane's hopeful America the Beautiful, performed on piano by the composer himself, while works by Chopin and Bach, performed by pianists Yevgeny Sudbin and Anne-Marie McDermott, anchor the program with their sheer beauty and virtuosity.

Tracklist:

America The Beautiful
First Club Date: I. Prelude To A Pizz.
First Club Date: II. Puppy Love
First Club Date: III. Matt's Monkish Machinations
First Club Date: IV. Elevating The Standard
First Club Date: V. Jonah's Jive Jump
English Suite No. 2 In A Minor, Bwv 807: I. Prélude
Image, Op. 38
Impressions D'enfance, Op. 28: No. 1, Ménétrier
Impressions D'enfance, Op. 28: No. 2, Vieux Mendiant
Impressions D'enfance, Op. 28: No. 3, Ruisselet Au Fond Du Jardin
Impressions D'enfance, Op. 28: No. 4, L'oiseau Au Cage Et Le Coucou Au Mur
Impressions D'enfance, Op. 28: No. 5, Chanson Pour Bercer
Impressions D'enfance, Op. 28: No. 6, Grillon
Impressions D'enfance, Op. 28: No. 7, Lune À Travers Les Vitres
Impressions D'enfance, Op. 28: No. 8, Vent Dans La Cheminée
Impressions D'enfance, Op. 28: No. 9, Tempête Au Dehors, Dans La Nuit
Impressions D'enfance, Op. 28: No. 10, Lever De Soleil
Variations On The Minute Waltz
Red Arc/Blue Veil

UPC: 827949073663
Label: Pentatone
Release Date: 6.15.18
Format: CD

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