Ives & Ruggles

Solo Piano

About

Charles Ives and Carl Ruggles, New England Transcendentalists and maverick composers of the early 20th century, left a legacy of iconoclastic music. Berman’s work has focused on the entire canon of these composers, especially the works that they left unfinished — some merely in sketch form. The pianist, editor, and colleague of Ives and Ruggles, John Kirkpatrick (1906–1991), with whom Berman studied, assembled these various sketches into performable editions. Berman is the President and Treasurer of The Charles Ives Society.

The Uncovered Ruggles and The Unknown Ives, Volume 2, are available now at Amazon.com. The Unknown Ives, Volume 1, originally released on CRI, can be purchased by contacting Berman.

Berman also served as General Editor for these three publications: 

You can purchase the Charles Ives Society Critical Edition of "Shorter Works for Piano, Vol 2: STUDIES" here.

Acclaim

Programs

MILLER THEATER

Carl Ruggles
Evocations (Four Chants for Piano) (1937–54)

I. Largo (to Harriette Miller)
II. Andante con fantasia (to John Kirkpatrick)
III. Moderato appassionato (to Charlotte Ruggles)
IV. Adagio sostenuto (to Charles Ives)

Charles Ives
Varied Air and Variations (1925)
Study No. 6, Bethany (from Lowell Mason, 1856) (1913)
Waltz-Rondo (1911)
Invention in D (1897) — Critical Edition Premiere

Carl Ruggles
Evocation No. 5: Affirmations (1935–50; ed. J. Kirkpatrick, 1980)

Charles Ives
Study No. 23 (1927)

Carl Ruggles
March (1940–43; ed. J. Kirkpatrick, 1980) — World Premiere

— Intermission —

Carl Ruggles
Organum (1944)
Parvum Organum, "Implications" (1945–47; ed. J. Kirkpatrick, 1980) — World Premiere

Charles Ives
Study No. 1 (fragment, 1911) — World Premiere
Study No. 2, Varied Air and Variations (1911) — World Premiere
Storm and Distress (1906) — Critical Edition Premiere
Study No. 11 (fragment, 1938 ) — World Premiere
Study No. 4 (fragment, 1908) — World Premiere
Study No. 5 (1908)

Carl Ruggles
Valse Lente (1945–50; ed. J. Kirkpatrick, 1980)

Charles Ives
Song without (Good) Words (1907)

Carl Ruggles
Mood (1918, ed. J. Kirkpatrick, 1975)

Charles Ives
Violin Sonata No. 2 (1913–18)

I. Autumn
II. In the Barn
III. The Revival

CONCORD CENTENNIAL

Charles Ives
Impression of the St. Gaudens in Boston Common ("Black March") (1915) 

Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840–60 (1915)

I. Emerson (on Ralph Waldo Emerson)
II. Hawthorne (on Nathaniel Hawthorne)
III. The Alcotts (on Bronson Alcott and Louisa May Alcott)
IV. Thoreau (on Henry David Thoreau)

Study No. 6, Bethany (from Lowell Mason, 1856) (1913)  
Study No. 23 (1923)  

BARGEMUSIC

Loren Rush
Oh, Susanna (1970)       

W. A. Mozart
Sonata in F Major, K. 332 (1784)             

Peter Philips
Pavana (1590)
Galliardo (1609)                       

Judith Weir
The Art of Touching the Piano (1983)                                           

Charles Ives
Invention in D (1897)
Study No. 2, Varied Air and Variations (1911)            
The Celestial Railroad, Phantasy for Piano (1925) 
Study No. 20, March, Even Durations — Unevenly Divided (1919)
March No. 6, Here's to Good Old Yale (1896)