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To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Ives — hailed by his champion Leonard Bernstein as the "first great American composer," who, "alone in his Connecticut barn, created his own private musical revolution" — Sony Classical presents the most comprehensive collection of recordings ever published of works by this eccentric and prophetic genius. The 5-CD box set, Charles Ives - The Anniversary Edition, is a unique and provocative introduction, originally released 50 years ago on vinyl under the Columbia Masterworks label, under the artistic direction of Henrietta Condak, to celebrate the Ives centennial. The first disc explores "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 greatest masterpieces, 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 Hymn (Largo cantabile) is performed by the New York String Quartet and double bassist Alvin Brehm. CD 2, The Celestial Country, presents Ives's early cantata of that name, composed between 1897 and 1899 for his conservative composition teacher at Yale, Horatio Parker. It is performed 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 under the direction of Leopold Stokowski. The Things Our Fathers Loved, CD 3, contains 25 of Ives's songs, performed by soprano Helen Boatwright, a specialist in American song. She is accompanied by John Kirkpatrick, who studied and worked closely with Ives and is still considered the most authoritative interpreter of his piano music. In 1974, Gramophone hailed this celebrated recording as "the best selection ever released" on vinyl of "what may well prove to be his most important, characteristic, and consistently inspired work." The next CD is particularly revealing: Ives Plays Ives presents the composer himself in 1933, 1938, and 1943, playing excerpts from his revolutionary Concord Sonata and shorter piano pieces in the New York recording studio of Mary Howard, Toscanini's sound engineer. In his performance of the slow movement of the Concord Sonata, The Alcotts, a Gramophone critic wrote that Ives's interpretation was "sincere but objective, a yin and yang quality that discerning performances embrace." During three brief excerpts from Emerson, the sonata's first movement, the critic continues, stating that Ives "provides pianists with a timbral model for the basic sound he imagined: a brutal attack, an intoxicated rhythmic freedom; this is neither the time nor the place for a consciously refined or 'pretty' interpretation." The final disc in the box set, titled Charles Ives Remembered, is a fascinating collage of oral memories. This was the first documentation of a musical figure using oral history. Over 50 interviews with family members, friends, neighbors, and colleagues create a memorable portrait of this enigmatic figure through the voices of those who knew him best. From memories of Ives's childhood to his years at Yale, through his public career as an insurance executive and his private career as a composer, the memoirs and reflections gathered by award-winning musicologist Vivian Perlis offer a multi-faceted and humanizing view of this enigmatic icon of American music.

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  • Album Charles Ives - The Anniversary Edition
  • Artist Multi-artistes
  • Release date 2024-10-18
  • Label MASTERWORKS
  • Distributor SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
  • Format CD (coffret)
  • EAN 0196588859724
  • Number of discs 5
  • Number of tracks 117

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Disc 1

  1. The Fourth of July
  2. Hymn (Largo cantabile)
  3. The Pond
  4. General William Booth Enters into Heaven
  5. Variations on "America"
  6. In Flanders Fields
  7. The Circus Band
  8. The Unanswered Question

Disc 2

  1. The Celestial Country - No. 1: Prelude, Trio and Chorus
  2. The Celestial Country - No. 2: Aria for Baritone
  3. The Celestial Country - No. 3: Quartet, accompanied
  4. The Celestial Country - No. 4: Intermezzo for String Quartet
  5. The Celestial Country - No. 5: Double Quartet, a cappella
  6. The Celestial Country - No. 6: Aria for Tenor
  7. The Celestial Country - No. 7: Chorale and Finale
  8. 4 Songs for Chorus and Orchestra : Majority (or The Masses)
  9. 4 Songs for Chorus and Orchestra : They Are There! (A War Song March)
  10. 4 Songs for Chorus and Orchestra : An Election (It Strikes Me That)
  11. 4 Songs for Chorus and Orchestra : Lincoln, the Great Commoner

Disc 3

  1. Earlier Songs: Slow March
  2. Earlier Songs: Canon [1]: Not Only in My Lady's Eyes
  3. Earlier Songs: There Is a Certain Garden
  4. Earlier Songs: On Judges' Walk
  5. Earlier Songs: No More
  6. Mundane Songs: The New River
  7. Mundane Songs: The Side Show
  8. Mundane Songs: West London
  9. Mundane Songs: Luck and Work
  10. Later Songs: The One Way
  11. Later Songs: Peaks
  12. Later Songs: Yellow Leaves
  13. Later Songs: A Sea Dirge
  14. German Songs: Widmung
  15. German Songs: Feldeinsamkeit
  16. Visionary Songs: Resolution
  17. Visionary Songs: Pictures
  18. Visionary Songs: Mists
  19. Visionary Songs: Incantation
  20. Visionary Songs: September
  21. Visionary Songs: The Sea of Sleep
  22. Visionary Songs: Requiem
  23. Nostalgic Songs: The Things Our Fathers Loved
  24. Nostalgic Songs: Old Home Day
  25. Nostalgic Songs: Down East

Disc 4

  1. Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860": "Emerson" (End of Exposition)
  2. Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860": "Emerson" (Most of Recap)
  3. Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860": "Hawthorne" (Fragment)
  4. Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860": "The Alcotts" (Complete)
  5. Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860": "Emerson" Transcription No. 1
  6. Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860": "Emerson" Transcription No. 3
  7. Improvisation on Themes of the Third Movement From Symphony No. 2
  8. March No. 6 in G and D 3 Improvisations
  9. March No. 6 in G and D 3 Improvisations: Improvisation X
  10. March No. 6 in G and D 3 Improvisations: Improvisation Y
  11. March No. 6 in G and D 3 Improvisations: Improvisation Z
  12. Study No. 9 "The Anti-Abolitionist Riots in the 1830's and 1840's"
  13. Study [No. 11]
  14. Fragment and Ragtime from Study No. 20, Quoting Alexander
  15. From Study No. 23
  16. From Study No. 23: Passage in Gospel Style Leading Into "Hello, Ma Baby"
  17. They Are There! (A War Song March)

Disc 5

  1. Chester Ives: "Well, the first recollection is when the family would get..."
  2. March No. 6 in G and D
  3. John Kirkpatrick: "He was rather an awesome creature..."
  4. Lehman Engel: "I remember very well my impressions of him and his wife..."
  5. A.J. "BABE" LaPINE: "Of course i knew Charlie..."
  6. Central Park in the Dark
  7. Julian Myrick "I first met Charlie Ives..."
  8. Charles Buesing: "I believe that 90% of the success of the agency..."
  9. Bernard Herrmann: "I think he had things pretty much the way he wanted..."
  10. Chester Ives: "Aunt Harmony retired early..."
  11. Ann Street
  12. George Tyler: "He was the most original thinker..."
  13. Watson Washburn: "I remember when my brother-in-law and I were working..."
  14. John Kirkpatrick: "The side of Ives that I wanted to emphasize..."
  15. Chester Ives: "I can remember giving up on top of the hill..."
  16. Calcium Light Night
  17. John Kirkpatrick: "He was a strange paradox..."
  18. Bigelow Ives: "Very late in his life..."
  19. George F. Roberts: "And when we would visit the Ives..."
  20. Richard Ives: "One of the things that bothered him the most..."
  21. L. Parkins & John Kirkpatrick: "Am I Correct that he had trouble adapting?"
  22. The New River
  23. Elliott Carter & Vivian Perlis: "He was a very idealistic man..."
  24. John Kirkpatrick: "He was such a paradoxical person..."
  25. Bernard Herrmann: "I mean, you notice Ives when he got this thing against War...
  26. Bigelow Ives: "During the First World War..."
  27. Mary Howard: "I had a recording studio for many years in New York..."
  28. They Are There! (A War Song March)
  29. The Unanswered Question
  30. Goddard Lieberson: "What was really strange about Ives..."
  31. Elliott Carter: "And I remember going with Ives..."
  32. Bernard Herrmann: "And I think people are looking around in Ives..."
  33. John Kirkpatrick: "Ives always maintained he could play anything he'd written...
  34. Bernard Herrmann: "I used to say to him..."
  35. The Fourth of July
  36. Nicolas Slonimsky: "His World was still old music..."
  37. Elliott Carter: " Now the other thing i have to say..."
  38. George F. Roberts: "Mr. ives was-ah-he gave away a lot of scores..."
  39. John Kirkpatrick: "He would have thought, naturally that any attempt..."
  40. Bernard Herrmann: "I mean like the second quartet's so much more difficult..."
  41. Jerome Moross: "And I remember when we did the first and fourth movement..."
  42. Bernard Herrmann: "I'll never forget we tried to get the Budapest Quartet..."
  43. Nicolas Slominsky: "And I don't know how, but I understood..."
  44. Washington's Birthday
  45. Richard Ives: "Well, I know during the First World War..."
  46. Mrs. Van Wyck: "He was working on a committee, it was during the War..."
  47. Chester Ives: "When he was in business..."
  48. John Kirkpatrick; "oh, I think it was sheer exhaustion..."
  49. Nicolas Slonimsky: "He'd stopped composing..."
  50. Tone Roads No. 3
  51. Brewster Ives: "I guess my earliest recollection of Uncle Charlie's music..."
  52. George Tyler: "And, of course, at that time..."
  53. Nicolas Slonimsky: "I think that on the whole he head a happy life..."
  54. Premonitions
  55. Nicolas Slonimsky: "And you know, one rather friendly individual..."
  56. Premonitions