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Charles Ives - The Anniversary Edition

Helen Boatwright (soprano), John Kirkpatrick (piano), Charles Ives (piano)

Charles Ives - The Anniversary Edition

Charles Ives - The Anniversary Edition

Helen Boatwright (soprano), John Kirkpatrick (piano), Charles Ives (piano)

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On the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Ives – acclaimed by his champion Leonard Bernstein as the “first great American composer”, who, “all alone in his Connecticut barn, created his own private musical revolution” – Sony Classical presents the most authoritative recording collection ever released of works by this eccentric, prophetic genius. The 5-CD box set 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.

Contents and tracklist

Ives, C: The Fourth of July
Work length5:39
Ives, C: Hymn (From "Set for String Quartet, Brass and Piano)
Work length3:28
  • Alvin Brehm (bass)
  • New York String Quartet
Ives, C: The Pond (remembrance)
Work length1:55
Ives, C: General William Booth Enters into Heaven
Work length6:15
  • Archie Drake (bass), Raymond Beegle (organ)
  • Columbia Chamber Orchestra, Gregg Smith Singers
  • Gregg Smith
Ives, C: Variations on 'America'
Work length7:44
  • E. Power Biggs (organ)
Ives, C: In Flanders Field
Work length2:18
Ives, C: The Circus Band
Work length2:45
  • Archie Drake (bass)
  • Columbia Chamber Orchestra, Gregg Smith Singers
  • Gregg Smith
Ives, C: The Unanswered Question
Work length5:28
Ives, C: The Celestrial Country
Work length36:54
  • Gregg Smith Singers, Columbia Chamber Orchestra
  • Gregg Smith
I. Prelude, Trio and Chorus
Track length7:24
II. Aria for Baritone
Track length3:48
III. Quartet, Accompanied
Track length6:08
IV. Intermezzo for String Quartet
Track length4:37
V. Double Quartet, a Capella
Track length3:15
VI. Aria for Tenor
Track length4:02
VII. Chorale and Finale
Track length7:40
Ives, C: Majority (Or the Masses)
Work length4:23
Ives, C: They Are There! (A War Song March)
Work length3:06
Ives, C: An Election (It Strikes Me That)
Work length4:03
Ives, C: Lincoln, The Great Commoner
Work length4:05
Ives, C: Earlier Songs
Work length9:59
  • Helen Boatwright (soprano), John Kirkpatrick (piano)
Slow March
Track length1:41
Canon (Not only in my lady's eyes)
Track length1:04
There is a certain Garden
Track length2:00
Judges' Walk
Track length1:38
No More
Track length3:36
Ives, C: Mundane Songs
Work length4:46
  • Helen Boatwright (soprano), John Kirkpatrick (piano)
The New River
Track length1:05
The Side Show
Track length0:39
West London
Track length2:33
Luck and Work
Track length0:29
Ives, C: Later Songs
Work length8:01
  • Helen Boatwright (soprano), John Kirkpatrick (piano)
The One Way
Track length2:59
Peaks
Track length1:39
Yellow Leaves
Track length1:25
A Sea Dirge
Track length1:58
Ives, C: German Songs
Work length5:53
  • Helen Boatwright (soprano), John Kirkpatrick (piano)
Widmung
Track length2:33
Feldeinsamkeit
Track length3:20
Ives, C: Visionary Songs
Work length11:10
  • Helen Boatwright (soprano), John Kirkpatrick (piano)
Resolution
Track length0:41
Pictures
Track length2:28
Mists
Track length1:48
Incantation
Track length1:38
September
Track length0:45
The Sea of Sleep
Track length1:48
Requiem
Track length2:02
Ives, C: Nostalgic Songs
Work length9:03
  • Helen Boatwright (soprano), John Kirkpatrick (piano)
The Things our Fathers Loved
Track length1:41
Old Home Day
Track length4:12
Down East
Track length3:10
Ives, C: From The Second Piano Sonata, "Concord, Mass. 1840-1860"
Work length18:54
  • Charles Ives (piano)
Emerson (End Of Exposition)
Track length2:01
Emerson (Most Of Recapitulation)
Track length3:59
Hawthorne (Fragment)
Track length0:13
The Alcotts (Complete)
Track length4:52
Emerson Transcription No. 1 with Interpolated Improvisations
Track length5:19
Emerson Transcription No. 3 with Interpolated Improvisations
Track length2:30
Ives, C: Improvisation On Themes From Second Symphony (Third Movement)
Work length1:46
  • Charles Ives (piano)
Ives, C: March No. 6 in G and D
Work length2:06
  • Charles Ives (piano)
Ives, C: Improvisation X
Work length0:51
  • Charles Ives (piano)
Ives, C: Improvisation Y
Work length1:16
  • Charles Ives (piano)
Ives, C: Improvisation Z
Work length0:42
  • Charles Ives (piano)
Ives, C: Study No. 9 'The Anti-Abolitionist Riots'
Work length2:13
  • Charles Ives (piano)
Ives, C: (Study No. 11)
Work length1:03
  • Charles Ives (piano)
Ives, C: Fragment And Ragtime From Study No. 20 Quoting "Alexander"
Work length0:46
  • Charles Ives (piano)
Ives, C: From (Study No. 23)
Work length1:00
  • Charles Ives (piano)
Ives, C: From (Study No. 23) - Passage In Gospel Style Leading Into "Hello, Ma Baby"
Work length1:05
  • Charles Ives (piano)
Ives, C: They Are There! (A War Song March)
Work length3:30
  • Charles Ives (piano)
Charles Ives Remembered
Work length49:30
  • Charles Ives (speaker), Vivian Perlis (speaker), Charles Ives (piano), John Kirkpatrick (speaker), Lehman Engel (speaker), A. J. "Babe" LaPine (speaker), Julian Myrick (speaker), Charles Buesing (speaker), Bernard Herrmann (speaker), Watson Washburn (speaker), Chester Ives (speaker), Bigelow Ives (speaker), Mrs. George F. Roberts (speaker), Richard Ives (speaker), Elliot Carter (speaker), Mary Howard (speaker), Goddard Lieberson (speaker), Nicolas Slonimsky (speaker), Elliott Carter (speaker), Jerome Moross (speaker), Mrs. Van Wyck (speaker), Brewstrer Ives (speaker), George Tyler (speaker)
"Well, the first recollection is when the family would get together ... "
Track length0:27
Music: (Charles Ives playing March #6 in G and D)
Track length0:14
"He was rather an awesome creature... "
Track length0:40
"I remember very well my impressions of him and his wife, Harmony ... "
Track length1:44
"Of course I knew Charlie ... "
Track length0:47
Music: (Central Park in the Dark)
Track length0:16
"I first met Charlie Ives ... "
Track length1:01
"I believe that 90% of the success of the agency ... "
Track length2:51
"I think he had things pretty much the way he wanted ... "
Track length0:22
"Aunt Harmony retired early ... "
Track length0:38
Music: (Ann St.)
Track length0:17
"He was the most original thinker ... "
Track length1:13
"I remember when my brother-inlaw and I were working ... "
Track length1:22
"The side of Ives that I wanted to emphasize ... "
Track length0:55
"I can remember giving up on top of the hill ... "
Track length0:25
Music: (Calcium Light Night)
Track length0:09
"He was a strange paradox ... "
Track length0:34
"Very late in his life ... "
Track length2:06
"And when we would visit the Ives ... "
Track length0:26
"One of the things that bothered him the most ... "
Track length0:24
"Am I correct that he had trouble adapting? ... " / "I think that would rather be linked to his Yankee independence ... "
Track length0:47
Music: (The New River)
Track length0:26
"He was a very idealistic man ... "
Track length0:54
"He was such a paradoxical person... "
Track length0:20
"I mean, you notice Ives, when he got this thing against war . . . "
Track length0:15
"During the First World War ... "
Track length1:07
"I had a recording studio for many years in New York ... "
Track length1:55
Music: (Charles Ives playing and singing They Are There!)
Track length0:56
Music: (The Unanswered Question)
Track length0:35
"What was really strange about Ives ... "
Track length1:27
"And I remember going with Ives ... "
Track length0:49
"And I think people are looking around in Ives ... "
Track length0:19
"Ives always maintained he could play anything he'd written ... "
Track length0:41
"I used to say to him ..."
Track length0:39
Music: (The Fourth of July)
Track length0:15
"His world was still old music ... "
Track length2:57
"Now the other thing I have to say ... "
Track length1:45
"Mr. Ives was-ah-he gave away a lot of scores ... "
Track length0:37
"He would have thought, naturally, that any attempt ... "
Track length0:54
"I mean like the second quartet's so much more difficult ... "
Track length0:40
"And I remember when we did the first and fourth movement ... "
Track length0:56
"I'll never forget, we tried to get the Budapest Quartet ... "
Track length1:02
"And I don't know how, but I understood... "
Track length2:19
Music: (Washington's Birthday)
Track length0:16
"Oh, I know during the First World War ... "
Track length0:52
"He was working on a committee; it was during the War ... "
Track length1:08
"When he was in business ... "
Track length0:26
"Oh, I think it was sheer exhaustion ... "
Track length0:33
"He'd stopped composing ... "
Track length0:37
Music: (Tone Roads #3)
Track length0:26
"I guess my earliest recollection of Uncle Charlie's music ... "
Track length1:58
"And, of course, at that time ... "
Track length1:18
"I think that on the whole he had a happy life ... "
Track length1:19
Premonitions [excerpt]
Track length0:19
"And you know, one rather friendly individual ... " with Music: (Premonitions)
Track length0:32
Premonitions [excerpt] II
Track length0:20
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