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Ives - The Anniversary Edition | Sony 19658885972

Ives - The Anniversary Edition

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Label: Sony

Cat No: 19658885972

Barcode: 0196588859724

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 5

Release Date: 18th October 2024

Contents

Works

Ives, Charles

Abide with me
General William Booth enters into Heaven
Hymn for strings
In Flanders Fields, S277
New England Holidays Symphony
» no.3 The Fourth of July
Songs (114)
» no.2 Evening
» no.7 Disclosure
» no.19 The Greatest Man
» no.23 Maple Leaves
» no.25 Ann Street
» no.27 The Swimmers
» no.29 The See'r
» no.41 1, 2, 3
» no.42 Serenity
» no.45 At the River
» no.49 In Flanders Fields
» no.50 He is There!
» no.51 Tom Sails Away
» no.60 Autumn
» no.67 Walking
» no.72 Tarrant Moss
» no.73 Harpalus
» no.74 The Children's Hour
» no.93 Berceuse (O'er the mountains)
» no.94 Where the Eagle
» no.103 The White Gulls
» no.104 Two Little Flowers
The Celestial Country
The Circus Band
The Pond
The Unanswered Question
Variations on America (arr. E Power Biggs)

Artists

Helen Boatwright (soprano)
Thomas Stewart (baritone)
Charles Ives (piano)
John Kirkpatrick (piano)
E Power Biggs (organ)
Alvin Brehm (double bass)
New York String Quartet
Gregg Smith Singers
American Symphony Orchestra
Columbia Chamber Orchestra
New York Philharmonic

Conductors

Leonard Bernstein
Gunther Schuller
Leopold Stokowski

Works

Ives, Charles

Abide with me
General William Booth enters into Heaven
Hymn for strings
In Flanders Fields, S277
New England Holidays Symphony
» no.3 The Fourth of July
Songs (114)
» no.2 Evening
» no.7 Disclosure
» no.19 The Greatest Man
» no.23 Maple Leaves
» no.25 Ann Street
» no.27 The Swimmers
» no.29 The See'r
» no.41 1, 2, 3
» no.42 Serenity
» no.45 At the River
» no.49 In Flanders Fields
» no.50 He is There!
» no.51 Tom Sails Away
» no.60 Autumn
» no.67 Walking
» no.72 Tarrant Moss
» no.73 Harpalus
» no.74 The Children's Hour
» no.93 Berceuse (O'er the mountains)
» no.94 Where the Eagle
» no.103 The White Gulls
» no.104 Two Little Flowers
The Celestial Country
The Circus Band
The Pond
The Unanswered Question
Variations on America (arr. E Power Biggs)

Artists

Helen Boatwright (soprano)
Thomas Stewart (baritone)
Charles Ives (piano)
John Kirkpatrick (piano)
E Power Biggs (organ)
Alvin Brehm (double bass)
New York String Quartet
Gregg Smith Singers
American Symphony Orchestra
Columbia Chamber Orchestra
New York Philharmonic

Conductors

Leonard Bernstein
Gunther Schuller
Leopold Stokowski

About

Sony Classical presents the most authoritative recording collection ever released of works by the eccentric, prophetic genius, Charles Ives, as a 5-CD box set.

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of the composer – Charles Ives – The Anniversary Edition is a unique and provocative introduction only released previously 50 years ago on LP by Columbia Masterworks under the art direction of Henrietta Condak to celebrate Ives’s centenary.

The first disc examines “The Many Faces of Charles Ives” through eight diverse works recorded between 1964 and 1970: Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic in The Fourth of July and The Unanswered Question; General William Booth Enters into Heaven, one of Ives’s towering achievements, and The Circus Band are performed by the Gregg Smith Singers; baritone Thomas Stewart sings the moving song In Flanders Fields; organist E. Power Biggs plays Ives’s Variations on “America”; composer Gunther Schuller conducts The Pond for chamber orchestra; and the Largo cantabile Hymn is performed by the New York String Quartet and double bass player Alvin Brehm.

CD 2, “The Celestial Country”, offers Ives’s early cantata by that name, composed in 1897–99 for his conservative Yale composition teacher Horatio Parker. It is sung by the Gregg Smith Singers (accompanied by the Columbia Chamber Orchestra), who also perform arrangements of four of Ives’s most powerful patriotic songs with the American Symphony Orchestra and Leopold Stokowski conducting.

“The Things Our Fathers Loved”, CD 3, contains 25 of Ives’s songs, delivered by the soprano Helen Boatwright, who specialised in American song. Gramophone in 1974 praised this famous recording as “the finest selection ever to appear” on LP of “what may well turn out to be considered his most important, characteristic and consistently inspired body of music.”

The last disc in the set is called “Charles Ives Remembered”. This fascinating collage of spoken reminiscences was the first-ever documentation of a musical figure using oral history. More than 50 interviews with family, friends, neighbours and colleagues create a vivid memory portrait of this enigmatic figure in the voices of the people who knew him best. Moving from Ives’s childhood and years at Yale to his public career as an insurance executive and his private career as a composer, the memories and reflections assembled by award-winning musicologist Vivian Perlis provide a multi-faceted and humanizing view of an enigmatic American musical icon.

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