Poems of Love & Other Works

Christopher Oldfather (piano), Christine Schadeberg (soprano), Margo Garrett (piano), Angela Fout (soprano), Richard Becker (piano), Nathaniel Chaitkin (cello), Marie-France Lefebvre (piano)

Catalog #: TROY0869
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Format: Digital
Vocal

Born in New York, David Chaitkin followed his early experience as a jazz musician with studies at Pomona College and the University of California, Berkeley, where he received its Prix de Paris. His teachers included Luigi Dallapiccola, Seymour Shifrin, Max Deutsch, Andrew Imbrie and Karl Kohn. He has taught at Reed College, New York University and Brooklyn College. Noted for his lyrical and harmonically adventurous music, Chaitkin has composed symphonic as well as a variety of chamber and vocal works. His music has been performed by the BBC Philharmonic, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, the DaCapo Chamber Players and St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. Recent commissions include a Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra, Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, and a new work for the U.S. Marine Band. As he writes about this release, "The works on this disc share a harmonic language, one which can refresh a long line, allow for the possibility of setting a melody in a number of different contexts, and to extend the possibilities for progression and contrast, balance and rhyme. All of the music reflects my natural desire for clarity of line, harmonic recognition and a sense of phrase."

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Track Listing

Title Composer Performer
Poems of Love: Song for a Lyre (Louise Bogan) David Chaitkin Christine Schadeberg, soprano, Christopher Oldfather, piano
Poems of Love: La giovinetta scorza (Torquato Tasso) David Chaitkin Christine Schadeberg, soprano, Christopher Oldfather, piano
Poems of Love: June Rain (W.S. Merwin) David Chaitkin Christine Schadeberg, soprano, Christopher Oldfather, piano
Poems of Love: Long Love (W.S. Merwin) David Chaitkin Angela Fout, soprano, Margo Garrett, piano
Poems of Love: Song: Warm Are the Still and Lucky Miles (W.H. Auden) David Chaitkin Angela Fout, soprano, Margo Garrett, piano
Impromptu David Chaitkin Richard Becker, piano
Three Dances David Chaitkin Richard Becker, piano
Rhapsody David Chaitkin Nathaniel Chaitkin, cello, Marie-France Lefebvre, piano

Reviews

  • "Chaitkin's sensitivity and poetic fancy come through consistently...dreamy, tremulous, lacey, enchanted."

    – American Record Guide

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