Daydreams / Various Daydreams / Various Super-Audio CD

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 Eug?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.

1. America the Beautiful - Jeffrey Kahane 2. Prelude to a Pizz. (Or, Overture to a French Pizz.) - Various Performers 3. Puppy Love - Various Performers 4. Matt's Monkish Machinations - Various Performers 5. Elevating the (Jazz) Standard - Various Performers 6. Jonah's Jive Jump - Various Performers 7. Prelude - Various Performers 8. Image, Op. 38 - Jessica Sindell 9. M?n?trier - Caroline Goulding/David Fung 10. Vieux Mendiant - Caroline Goulding/David Fung 11. Ruisselet Au Fond Du Jardin - Caroline Goulding/David Fung 12. L'oiseau en Cage Et Le Coucou Au Mur - Caroline Goulding/David Fung 13. Chanson Pour Bercer - Caroline Goulding/David Fung 14. Grillon - Caroline Goulding/David Fung 15. Lune ? Travers Les Vitres - Caroline Goulding/David Fung 16. Vent Dans la Chemin?e - Caroline Goulding/David Fung 17. Temp?te Au Dehors, Dans la Nuit - Caroline Goulding/David Fung 18. Lever de Soleil - Caroline Goulding/David Fung 19. ? la Minute (Variations on the Minute Waltz) - Various Performers 20. Red Arc/Blue Veil - Vicky Chow/Doug Perkins