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ALBUM/WORK TITLE |
PERFORMER |
LABEL |
CATALOG |
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RATING |
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Works by Kurt Weill, Irving Fine, George Gershwin, Gian Carlo Menotti, Charles Ives, others
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SONGS OF HUMOR & SATIRE
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The Gregg Smith Singers
Gregg Smith
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Premier |
1030 |
CD |
9/9 |
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Various composers & works
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THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: AN AMERICAN CELEBRATION
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New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein; Kurt Masur; Leonard Slatkin; Pierre Boulez; Others
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NY Philharmonic Special Editions |
9904 |
CD |
10/10 |
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Works by Siegmeister, Gould, Copland, Ives, & Sousa
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AMERICANA
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Various orchestras & conductors
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Vox |
CDX 5182 |
CD |
9/8 |
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Choral works by Barber, Duruflé, Ives, Bernstein, Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams, Verdi, & Schoenberg
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HEAVEN TO EARTH
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Nancianne Parrella (organ); Charles Robert Stephens (baritone); François Suhr (treble)
Westminster Choir
Joseph Flummerfelt
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Avie |
0046 |
CD |
9/8 |
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Choral works for Christmas by Sweelinck, Buxtehude, Walton, Mathias, Gruber, Pinkham, Praetorius, Cornelius, Ives, Rorem, others
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ALL IS BRIGHT
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Handel & Haydn Society Chorus
Grant Llewellyn
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Avie |
AV 2078 |
CD |
8/8 |
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Contemporary works for brass ensemble; also works by Ives (From the Steeples to the Mountains) and Gabrieli (Canzona XXV)
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METALOFONICO
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Metalofonico
Jon Nelson
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8bells |
00106 |
CD |
9/9 |
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Marches by Saint-Saëns, Grainger, R. Strauss, Prokofiev, Weber, Mendelssohn, Barber, Ives, Grieg, Harlvorson, Hanssen, Bull
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OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY
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Kristiansand Blaseensemble
Bjorn Sagstad
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2L |
31 |
SACD |
9/10 |
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CHARLES IVES
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17 Songs; Piano Sonata No. 2 ("Concord, Mass., 1840-1860") |
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano); Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano); Tabea Zimmermann (viola); Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
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Teldec |
60297-2 |
CD |
9/9 |
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CHARLES IVES
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SONGS, VOL. 2
26 songs, including December, Down East, Evening, Far in the Wood, Grantchester, The Greatest Man, & General William Booth Enters into Heaven |
Various soloists & accompanists
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Naxos |
8.559270 |
CD |
8/9 |
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CHARLES IVES
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27 Songs |
Andrew Childs (tenor); Wei-Han Su (piano)
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Centaur |
2796 |
CD |
7/8 |
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CHARLES IVES
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SONGS, VOL. 1
29 songs, including Abide with Me, Aeschylus and Sophocles, At the River, Autumn, Because of You, The Camp Meeting, Charlie Rutlage, The Children's Hour, A Christmas Carol, The Circus Band, Country Celestial, & Cradle Song |
Various singers; Frederick Teardo (organ); Various pianists
Biava String Quartet
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Naxos |
8.559269 |
CD |
9/9 |
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CHARLES IVES
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ROMANZO DI CENTRAL PARK
30 songs, includes: The Circus Band; The Se'er; Mists; Songs My Mother Taught Me; They are There!; Watchman!; In Flanders Fields; Omens and Oracles; The Evening Bells; The Children's Hour; Evening; To Edith; At the River; The Light that is Felt; Romanzo (di Central Park); others |
Gerald Finley (baritone); Julius Drake (piano)
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Hyperion |
67644 |
CD |
10/10 |
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CHARLES IVES
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A SONG--FOR ANYTHING
31 Songs |
Gerald Finley (baritone); Julius Drake (piano)
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Hyperion |
CDA67516 |
CD |
10/10 |
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CHARLES IVES
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SONGS, VOL. 3
33 songs, including He is There!, In Flanders Fields, The Housatonic at Stockbridge, Immortality, & Lincoln, The Great Commoner |
Various soloists & pianists; Frederick Teardo (organ); Ayano Kabaoka (glockenspiel)
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Naxos |
8.559271 |
CD |
9/9 |
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CHARLES IVES
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A Concord Symphony: Charles Ives Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-1860 (orch. Henry Brant) |
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Dennis Russell Davies
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Innova |
414 |
CD |
9/9 |
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SAMUEL BARBER
ERNST BLOCH
AARON COPLAND
DAVID DEL TREDICI
LUKAS FOSS
GEORGE GERSHWIN
ROY HARRIS
CHARLES IVES
NED ROREM
WILLIAM SCHUMAN
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN: THE AMERICANS
Adagio for Strings
Schelomo
Appalachian Spring; Clarinet Concerto; Connotations; El Salón México; Music for the Theater; Quite City; Symphony No. 3
Tattoo
The Song of Songs
Rhapsody in Blue; Prelude No. 2
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 2; Central Park in the Dark; The Unanswered Question, etc.
Violin Concerto
American Festival Overture; Symphony No. 3 |
Sheri Greenawald (soprano); Mischa Maisky (cello); Leonard Bernstein (piano)
New York Philharmonic
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Israel Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein
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Deutsche Grammophon |
474 940-2 |
CD |
9/8 |
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CHARLES IVES
SAMUEL BARBER
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Concord Sonata
Piano Sonata |
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
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Hyperion |
CDA 67469 |
CD |
9/9 |
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CHARLES IVES
AARON COPLAND
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Concord Sonata
Piano Sonata |
Easley Blackwood (piano)
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Cedille |
CDR 90000 005 |
CD |
10/10 |
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CHARLES IVES
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Concord Sonata; Varied Air and Variations; The Celestial Railroad; Transcription from "Emerson" No. 1 |
Steven Mayer (piano); Kerry Shale (narrator)
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Naxos |
8.559221 |
CD |
9/8 |
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GEORGE GERSHWIN
JOHN HARBISON
CHARLES IVES
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Cuban Overture
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 2 |
Munich Philharmonic Orchestra
James Levine
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Oehms Classics |
507 |
CD |
7/7 |
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CHARLES IVES
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Decoration Day; The Fourth of July; Thanksgiving; The General Slocum; Overture in G minor; Yale-Princeton Football Game; Postlude in F |
Malmö Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Chorus
James Sinclair
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Naxos |
8.559370 |
CD |
10/10 |
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VINCENT PERSICHETTI
CHARLES IVES
JOHN CORIGLIANO
LUKAS FOSS
AARON COPLAND
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AMERICAN CHORAL MUSIC
Flower Songs
Psalm 90
Fern Hill
Behold, I Build an House
In the Beginning |
Susanne Mentzer (mezzo-soprano)
University of Texas Chamber Singers
James Morrow
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Naxos |
8.559299 |
CD |
9/8 |
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CHARLES IVES
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IVES PLAYS IVES
Four Transcriptions from "Emerson"; Studies Nos. 2,9,11,20, and 23; "The Alcotts" and portions of "Emerson" and "Hawthorne" from Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass.; Largo from Symphony No. 1; Three Improvisations; "They are There!"; March No. 6 for Piano, with "Here's to Good Old Yale" |
Charles Ives (piano)
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CRI |
810 |
CD |
10/4 |
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CHARLES IVES
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Holidays Symphony; Three Places in New England |
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy
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RCA |
38202 |
CD |
9/8 |
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AARON COPLAND
CHARLES IVES
ELLIOTT CARTER
SAMUEL BARBER
CHALES GRIFFES
ROGER SESSIONS
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Piano Sonata (1939-41)
Three Page Sonata; Sonata No. 1 for Piano (1902-8, pub. 1954)
Piano Sonata (1943-46, rev. 1982)
Piano Sonata Op. 26
Sonata for Piano (1917-18)
Piano Sonata No. 2 (1946) |
Peter Lawson (piano)
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Virgin Classics |
5 61928 2 |
CD |
8/8 |
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CHARLES IVES
AARON COPLAND
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Piano Sonata No. 1
Piano Sonata
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James Nalley (piano)
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Eroica |
3097 |
CD |
9/8 |
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CHARLES IVES
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Piano Sonatas One & Two; Three-Page Sonata; Studies Nos. 2, 9, 20, 21, 22, & 23; Waltz-Rondo; Five Take-Offs |
Philip Mead (piano)
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Metier |
92037 |
CD |
4/6 |
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JULIAN CARRILLO
LOU HARRISON
GIACINTO SCELSI
IANNIS XENAKIS
CHARLES IVES
HARRY PARTCH
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CHAMBER
Preludio a Colón
At the Tomb of Charles Ives
Ko-Lho
Anaktoria
String Quartet No. 2
2 Settings from Joyce's Finnegan's Wake |
Meredith Bordon (soprano); Andrew Bolotowski (flute); Michiyo Suzuki (clarinet)
Ensemble of the American Festival of Microtonal Music
Johnny Reinhard
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Pitch |
200203 |
CD |
9/8 |
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CHARLES IVES
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THE UNKNOWN IVES VOL. 2
Premiere recordings of unpublished works and new critical editions |
Donald Berman (piano); Stephen Drury (second piano)
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New World Records |
80618-2 |
CD |
10/9 |
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CHARLES IVES
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Robert Browning Overture; Symphony No. 2 (ed. Elkus) |
Nashville Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Schermerhorn
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Naxos |
8.559076 |
CD |
10/10 |
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