Castle Classics Ives, Charles (American 1874-1954)

C Ives: Symphonies 2 & 3 - Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor

Label - Hyperion

Cat. No. - CDA67525

Including Symphony No 2; Symphony No 3 ‘The Camp Meeting’; General William Booth enters into Heaven

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C Ives: Symphonies 1 & 4 - Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Litton, conductor

Label - Hyperion

Cat. No. - CDA67540

Including Symphony No 2; Symphony No 3 ‘The Camp Meeting’; General William Booth enters into Heaven

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C Ives: Universe Symphony. Symphony No.2 - Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra; Michael Stern, conductor, with assistant conductors Larry Austin, Johannes Kalitzke, Michael Schmidtsdorff & Christian Voss

Label - Col Legno

Cat. No. - WWE1CD20074

Charles Ives left his extraordinary 'Universe Symphony' unfinished, after working at it over 40 years - so it's no surprise that Larry Austin took another 20 years to produce his 'performing edition', here recorded live at the 1998 German première, with Austin himself one of the 5 conductors required!
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C Ives: Symphonies 1 & 2 - Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Järvi

Label - Chandos

Cat. No. - CHAN10031

Including Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 2, for large orchestra
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C Ives: Emerson Concerto. Symphony No.1 - Alan Feinberg, piano; National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland; James Sinclair, conductor

Label - Naxos

Cat. No. - 8559175

Including Symphony No.1; Emerson Concerto
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C Ives: Symphony No.2; Browning Overture - Nashville Symphony Orchestra; Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor

Label - Naxos

Cat. No. - 8559076

Including Robert Browning Overture; Symphony No.2

Gramophone Good CD Guide Recommended Disc

Coming hot on the heels of their sensational Hanson CD, this partnership looks to be the American music happening of the new millennium. Bravo!" - Classics Today (David Hurwitz), September 6, 2000
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C Ives: Symphony No.2 - New York Philharmonic Orchestra; Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Label - Deutsche Grammophon

Cat. No. - 4292202

Including Symphony No.2; The Gong on the Hook and Ladder; Tone Roads No.1; Hymn: Largo Cantabile, for String Orchestra; Hallowe'en; Central Park in the Dark; The Unanswered Question
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C Ives: Symphony No.3 - Northern Sinfonia; James Sinclair, conductor

Label - Naxos

Cat. No. - 8559087

Including Symphony No. 3; Washington’s Birthday; The Unanswered Question; Central Park in the Dark; Country Band March; Overture & March 1776
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C Ives: Three Quarter-Tone Pieces. Five Take-Offs. Hallowe'en. Sunrise - Continuum

Label - Naxos

Cat. No. - 8559194

Including The Housatonic at Stockbridge; Soliloquy, or a Study in 7ths and Other Things; On the Antipodes; The Gong on the Hook and Ladder (original version); Hallowe’en; In Re Con Moto et al, Op. 20; Sunrise; Remembrance; Aeschylus and Sophocles; Five Take-offs; 3 Quarter-Tone Pieces
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G Mahler; C Ives: Symphony No.1. The Unanswered Question. Central park in the Dark - South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra; Michael Gielen, conductor

Label - Hanssler Classic

Cat. No. - 93097

Including IVES The Unanswered Question; Central Park in the Dark; MAHLER Symphony No.1 in D
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C Ives: Songs. Concord Sonata - Susan Graham, soprano; Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

Label - Warner

Cat. No. - 2564602972

Including Sonata for Piano No 2, 'Concord, Mass.: 1840-60'; Ann Street; The Cage; The Circus Band; A Farewell to land; The Housatonic at Stockbridge; The Indians; Like a sick eagle; Memories; September; Serenity; Soliloquy; Songs my mother taught me; Swimmers; The Things our fathers loved; Thoreau; 1,2,3; A Sound of distant horn

Gramophone Editor's Choice Award, June, 2004

"A splendid addition to the Ives discography and a fine tribute 50 years after his death from two superlative musicians"
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C Ives: Violin Sonatas 1-4 - Curt Thompson, violin; Rodney Waters, piano

Label - Naxos

Cat. No. - 8559119

Including First Sonata for Violin and Piano • Fourth Sonata for Violin and Piano, "Children’s Day at the Camp Meeting" • Second Sonata for Violin and Piano • Third Sonata for Violin and Piano
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C Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2 / The Celestial Railroad - Steven Mayer, piano

Label - Naxos

Cat. No. - 8559127

Including Four Transcriptions from 'Emerson', No. 1 • Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord, Mass: 1840-60" • The Celestial Railroad • Varied Air and Variations
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C Ives; S Barber: Piano Sonatas - MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN, piano

Label - Hyperion

Cat. No. - CDA67469

Including BARBER Piano Sonata Op 26; IVES Piano Sonata No 2 Op 19 ‘Concord Sonata’

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C Ives: Variations on 'America' - 'The President's Own' United States Marine Band; Colonel Timothy W. Foley, director

Label - Naxos

Cat. No. - 8570559

Including Variations on 'America'; Overture and March '1776'; They Are There! (A War Song March); Old Home Days: Suite for Band (arr. Elkus); March Intercollegiate; Fugue in C; March: 'Omega Lambda Chi'; Variations on 'Jerusalem the Golden'; A Son of a Gambolier; Postlude in F; 'Country Band' March; Decoration Day; Charlie Rutlage; The Circus Band; Runaway Horse on Main Street; March No. 6, with 'Here's to Good Old Yale'; 'The Alcotts'

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C Ives: Complete Recordings Of Charles Ives At The Piano - Charles Ives, piano

Label - New World Records

Cat. No. - 806422

The invention of sound-recording devices late in the nineteenth century made possible the preservation of definitive performances played or led by some important composers of the first decades of the twentieth century. Elgar, Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, and Stravinsky, among others, left a significant legacy of recordings of their own works.

Charles Ives, however, did not approach recording in order to leave a legacy. At least at first, he simply wanted an opportunity to listen to some of his music with advantageous detachment (and possibly to shortcut supplying to Henry Cowell and others variants of his music). With virtually no performances of his important music occurring during the first two decades of the century, Ives certainly had a backlog of curiosity about the sound of his own compositional efforts, and the need to judge them as such.
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C Ives: Varied Air - The Piano Music of Charles Ives - Philip Mead, piano; Helen Brammen, flute; Elena Artemonova, viola

Label - Metier

Cat. No. - MSVCD92037

2 CD Set

Including Piano Sonata No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 2 - Concord; Three Page Sonata; Studies No. 2, No. 9, No, 20, No. 21, No. 22, No. 23; Waltz-Rondo; Five Take-Offs

"This is a most desirable disc. Even more than his orchestral works or songs, the piano works of Charles Ives demonstrate the extraordinary and compelling originality of a composer who was truly ahead of his time. For instance, not allowing convention or practicality to constrict his creativity in the Piano Sonata No. 2 (Concord Mass., 1840-1860), Ives includes a part of flute and a couple of bars for viola as well as large clusters to be played by a board. Such an approach seems more akin to experimental works of the Sixties rather than a piece completed in 1912.

Although not a complete survey, these two discs contain just about all of Ives's best-known and most significant works for piano. Philip Mead has a long association with this music and these are clearly settled and considered interpretations. Not that he is to be found wanting for any sense of spontaneity, his account of Study No. 21, 'Some South-Paw Pitching!' typifying a wonderful ebullience. The production, using a small piano and deliberately cultivating an 'older' sound, is typical of the imaginative approach of both Mead and Metier. Competition in this repertoire is astonishingly scant, but even with a packed field, Mead would be hard to beat." - BBC Music Magazine ***** Recording
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C Ives: Songs - 1894-1942 - Roberta Alexander, soprano; Tan Crone, piano

Label - Etcetera

Cat. No. - KTC2508

2 CD Set
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C Ives: A Song - For Anything - GERALD FINLEY, baritone; JULIUS DRAKE, piano

Label - Hyperion

Cat. No. - CDA67516

Including Feldeinsamkeit; The Things our Fathers Loved; Memories: (A) Very Pleasant; (B) Rather Sad; The Housatonic at Stockbridge; Swimmers; The Cage; The Greatest Man; General William Booth Enters into Heaven; Remembrance; Berceuse; West London; Tom Sails Away; When Stars are in the Quiet Skies; Weil’ auf mir; Ich grolle nicht; Du alte Mutter; Where the Eagle; Walking; Yellow Leaves; The Side Show; Élégie; The New River; Like a Sick Eagle; Ann Street; Slugging a Vampire; Thoreau; Serenity; Tolerance; Charlie Rutlage; ‘1, 2, 3’; A Song – For Anything; Psalm 51

Charles Ives’s work as a pioneering polytonalist is perhaps better remembered today than his song output, but throughout his long composing life his most personal musical expressions are to be found in what may best be called the genre of the ‘art song’. These range from traditional ‘lieder’ (setting such familiar poets as Heinrich Heine and Nikolaus Lenau), through English-language ‘songs of the period’ (Kipling, Keats, Bulwer-Lytton), to pioneering ‘pop songs in the modern idiom’, often to texts of Ives’s own devising. All show a degree of craftsmanship which makes one wonder why many of these songs are not better known.

Ives admitted to a deep mistrust of singers – their insistence on ‘interpreting’ any given score frequently, he felt, betrayed its composer’s intentions: not so with Gerald Finley and Julius Drake. These peformances perfectly encapsulate a lost world, transporting the listener back to a world where a ‘sentimental ballad’ could happily share the stage with a pastiche on the ‘Battle Cry for Freedom’
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C Ives: Songs 1894-1942 - Roberta Alexander; Tan Crone

Label - Etcetera

Cat. No. - KTC2508

2 CD Set
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C Ives: Songs of Charles Ives - Andrew Childs, tenor; Wei-Han Su, piano

Label - Centaur

Cat. No. - CRC2796

Including Slow March; The Greatest Man; The Cage; The Circus Band; Memories; In Summer Fields; Songs my Mother Taught Me; The Old Mother; Remembrance; A Scotch Lullaby; Berceuse; Cradle Song; The Children's Hour; To Edith; Immortality; Two Little Flowers; Marie; The Last Reader; Down East; The Light that is Felt; There is a Lane; Serenity; Tom Sails Away; Disclosure; Hymn; The Rainbow (So May it Be); The Things our Fathers Loved
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C Ives: Songs - Jill Feldman, soprano; Jeannette Koekkoek, piano

Label - Olive Music

Cat. No. - OM011

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C Ives: String Quartets - Blair String Quartet

Label - Naxos

Cat. No. - 8559178

Including String Quartet No. 1: From the Salvation Army; String Quartet No. 2

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C Ives: The Celestial Country - St Olaf Choir & Chamber Ensemble

Label - Linn

Cat. No. - CKD203

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C Ives: Works for String Quartet - Leipziger Streichquartett; Yeon-Hee Kwak; Steffen Schleiermacher

Label - Dabringhaus und Grimm

Cat. No. - MDG30711432

Including String Quartet No.1. String Quartet No.2. Adagio sostenuto for English Horn String Quartet and Piano.

BBC Music Magazine Pick of the Month

Performance ***** Sound *****
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C Ives: The Unknown Ives - Premiere recordings of unpublished works and new critical editions - Donald Berman, piano

Label - New World Records

Cat. No. - 806182

Including Varied Air and Variations (1922); Waltz-Rondo (1911); Invention in D (1898); Study No. 1: Allegro (1911); Study No. 2 (1911); Storm and Distress: piano cadenza from Scherzo: Over the Pavements (1910); Study No. 11: Andante (1916); Impression of the "St. Gaudens" in Boston Common (1915); The Celestial Railroad (1925); Minuetto, op. 4 (1886); Study No. 4: Allegro moderato (1908); Study No. 5: Moderato con anima (1913); Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for Two Pianos (1924) - Largo; Allegro ; Chorale (with Stephen Drury, piano 2); Fourth Fugue (George Edward Ives) (1891); March No. 1 for Piano, with "Year of the Jubilee" (1895); March No. 2 for Piano, with "Son of a Gambolier" (1895); March No. 3 for Piano, with "Omega Lambda Chi" (1896); March in G and C for Piano, with "See The Conquering Hero Comes" (1897); March for Piano: "The Circus Band" (1899); March No. 5 for Piano, with "Annie Lisle" (1895); March No. 6 for Piano, with "Here's to Good Old Yale" (1896)

The works on The Unknown Ives, Vol 2 include some of his best and most searching experiments: fragments, personal explorations, cerebral excursions and works of unabashed amusement. What emerges from their juxtaposition is a sense of canon. The spectrum of pieces, from adolescence to maturity, simple to complex, illustrates the boundaries of the complete oeuvre and describe a broad musical profile of Ives the complete musician
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I Wyschnegradsky; C Ives: Quarter-Tone Pieces - Josef Christof & Steffen Schleiermacher, pianos

Label - HAT

Cat. No. - HATN143

Including WYSCHNEGRADSKY 24 Preludes in Quarter-tone System <Actinic:Variable Name = 'excerpts'/>; Etude sur le "Carre Magique Sonore" Op. 40; IVES 3 Quartertone Pieces for 2 Pianos; Three Page Sonata

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R Clarke; C Ives: Piano Trios - Bekova Sisters

Label - Chandos

Cat. No. - CHAN9844

Including Rebecca Clarke; Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano; Charles Ives: Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano; Rebecca Clarke: premiere recording: Midsummer Moon, for Viola and Piano; Lullaby
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W Schuman; C Ives: Violin Concerto; Variations on America; New England Triptych - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Jose Serebrier, conductor

Label - Naxos

Cat. No. - 8559083

Including SCHUMAN: Violin Concerto; New England Triptych; IVES: Variations on 'America'

"Hugely appealing music from the all too rarely encountered William Schuman. Philip Quint is a fine soloist in the Violin Concerto."- Editor's Choice Gramophone July 2001

Gramophone Good CD Guide Recommended Disc

"The experienced Serebrier and the talented young Quint are persuasive advocates. And Serebrier clearly revels in Schuman's more familiar reworkings of Billings and Ives."- (BBC Music Magazine Anthony Burton) August 2001
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C Ives: Three Places in New England - Thomas Hampson, baritone; San Francisco Symphony & Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas, piano

Label - RCA Red Seal

Cat. No. - 09026637032

Including Three Places in New England; From the Steeples and the Mountains; The Unanswered Question; Songs.

BBC Music Magazine "Best CDs of 2002" Award
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