Description
Tracklist:
: The Many Faces Of Charles Ives
1-1: The Fourth Of July
1-2: Hymn (Largo Cantaile) From “Set For String Quartet, Bass And Piano”
1-3: The Pond
1-4: General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
1-5: Variations On “America”
1-6: In Flanders Fields
1-7: The Circus Band
1-8: The Unanswered Question
: The Celestial Country
: The Celestial Country
: 4 Songs For Chorus And Orchestra
2-8: Majority (Or The Masses)
2-9: They Are There! (A War Song March)
2-10: An Election (It Strikes Me That)
2-11: Lincoln, The Great Commoner
: The Things Our Fathers Loved
: Earlier Songs
: Mundane Songs
: Later Songs
: German Songs
: Visionary Songs
: Ives Plays Ives
: From The Second Piano Sonata, “Concord, Mass. 1840-1860”
4-7: Improvisation On Themes From Second Symphony (Third Movement)
4-8: March No. 6 In G And D
4-9: Improvisation X
4-10: Improvisation Y
4-11: Improvisation Z
4-12: Study No. 9 (“The Anti-Abolitionist Riots”)
4-13: (Study No. 11)
4-14: Fragment And Ragtime From Study No. 20 Quoting “Alexander”
4-15: From (Study No. 23)
4-16: From (Study No. 23) – Passage In Gospel Style Leading Into “Hello, Ma Baby”
4-17: They Are There!
: Charles Ives Remembered
5-1-56: Reminiscences Of The Composer By Relatives, Friends And Associates
Presented on the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Ives acclaimed by Leonard Bernstein as the first great American composer, who, all alone in his Connecticut barn, created his own private musical revolution this 5-CD box is a unique and provocative introduction only released previously 50 years ago on LP by American Columbia to celebrate Ivess centenary. The historic edition was produced in collaboration with the Yale Music Library and designed by two-time Grammy-nominated American graphic artist Henrietta Condak.
For this 150th anniversary reissue:
Producer: Robert Russ, in collaboration with the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University
Mark Bailey, Head, Historical Sound Recordings
Visual materials: Courtesy the John Herrick Jackson Music Library, Yale University.
