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I had the great privilege of being present at a Carnegie Hall concert by these forces featuring the two works on this disc, along with
If you already have the first two volumes in this important, ambitious, and exceptionally well performed and recorded series, then of course you’ll want to
Gerald Finley’s second disc of Ives songs is every bit as wonderful as the first (read review here). Finley is the perfect song recitalist: his
For this Volume 1 of the songs of Charles Ives (the series will include all of the songs he completed), Naxos employed the services of
Mezzo-soprano Janna Baty offers a suitably rousing introduction to Naxos’ Ives Songs, Volume 2 in the form of “December”, Ives’ 1913 setting of a 14th-century
This is far and away the best program of Ives songs currently available, 31 of them, lasting slightly more than 70 minutes. Most of them
An arrangement of another’s music, says UCLA Director Emeritus of Bands Jonathan Elkus, must “fulfill or exceed on its own terms the musical values of
Even 40 or so years after it was written, Charles Ives’ Psalm 90 still seemed radically, ingeniously cool to a certain familiar bunch of ’60s-era
Most of the 27 Ives songs selected for this recital showcase the composer’s sometimes-underrated lyrical and romantic side, while his better-known pricklier persona only appears
It’s always good to have new recordings of Ives’ two quartets (here including a bonus of the zany Scherzo for String Quartet). They are wonderful
