Charles Ives: The String Quartets
 Best Ives quartets, ever: I think this is the best recording of the Ives quartets, Emerson Qt. notwithstanding. Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0750582982422 Format: Import Release Date: 1990-01-01 Running Time: 52 minutes UPC: 750582982422 Tracks: Qt No.1: I. [... more]
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Syms 2/3 (W/1 Spoken Track)
Bernstein conducts Ives: Just as Bernstein had done for the music of Gustav Mahler, he helped to popularize the music of an American original, Charles Ives (1874-1954). He found Ives a genius, too, as he said in a companion recording included with [... more]
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brilliant idiosyncrasies: Ives was an uncommon, refined distillate. Much like Wallace Stevens, another Connecticut Yankee insurance specialist thoroughly out of step with his environment, Ives's structural and thematic advances foretold radical new [... more]
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Black Angels
Amazon.com essential recording: The title to Kronos's most bleak album comes from a nearly 20- minute-long composition by American composer George Crumb that unfolds over 13 distinct parts. That ominous number only hints at the horror Crumb intended as [... more]
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Holidays Sym
: Ives never really intended his four holiday symphonic poems to be played together, and they are very seldom performed that way live. But it makes so much sense to group them on a recording that the Holidays Symphony has become the standard way to refer [... more]
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Original Jacket Collection (Lt
A Fascinating Overview of Bernstein's Art: This collection not only provides a fascinating overview of the art of Leonard Bernstein, it also provides one with a fairly comprehensive view of what Lenny and the controversy surrounding his music making were [... more]
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Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-4
The Ives Violin Sonatas: Charles Ives (1874 -1954) was an original American composer. His work anticipated both the creation of a distintly American style of art music, incorporation elements of gospel, popular song,jazz, and ragtime and also the [... more]
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Unanswered Question
From Amazon.com: The music of Charles Ives (1874-1954) draws from two basic sources: American folk songs and an active imagination. He was also the first composer to "characterize" New England in music. His showstopper, The Unanswered Question, [... more]
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Ives: An American Journey
From Amazon.com: Michael Tilson Thomas is an expert Ivesian. His 1970 recording debut was with Three Places in New England, still available from DG. Here, he redoes the work with the interpolation of a chorus singing the poem on which the last movement, & [... more]
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Ives: Symphony No. 4 &
This disc is worth ten-thousands words (of praise! ).: Charles Ives (1874-1954) was as daring of a modern giant as Denmark's Carl August Nielsen (1865-1936) or even Bela Bartok (1880-1945). When looking at Ives, Nielsen and Bartok, I realize from the [... more]
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Piano.. #2,. Mass.Aimard/Graha
It takes a Frenchman to capture an American masterpiece!: The "Concord Sonata" of Charles Ives has been described as "the greatest work written by an American." It's a big sprawling, glorious mess of a thing, inspired by the [... more]
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Ives: Country Band March; 4 R
This is a must have: The Ragtime pieces in the beginning are really *very* good and imaginative. I realized while listening that the composer that wrote for the early Loonie Tunes cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny *must* have been thinking of this music when [... more]
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