Première of Charles E. Ives' Decoration Day in Great Britain
Gloucestershire, England, U.K.
24 July 2007

CHARLES EDWARD IVES (1874-1954) • Decoration Day (Reconstruction for violin and piano by John Kirkpatrick; unpublished; from John Kirkpatrick’s manuscripts at Yale Music Library) | FREDERICK DELIUS (1862-1934) • Sonata in B Major (1892; publ. 1977) | MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937) • Sonata (1926) | HUW WATKINS (British, 1976-) • Romance (Encore)

Violin Tamsin Waley-Cohen, piano Gregorio Nardi

The performance of Charles E. Ives Decoration Day is a collaboration with ICAMus, The International Center for American Music, Inc., with The Charles Ives Papers, Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University, U.S.A., and with The Charles Ives Society, Inc.

Charles E. Ives, Decoration Day: première outside the U.S.A.