[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 1 November 2010
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"These songs, with all their quirks and flights of fantasy, [are] among the most important of the 20th century in any language." The Guardian
Charles Ives wrote almost two hundred songs. Although his reputation rests on orchestral, chamber and piano music, it is Ives's songs that represent the heart of his creative thinking.
The expressive variety encountered is accordingly vast: indeed, the gradual evolution of Ives's songwriting is analogous to the wider evolution of American music during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This new edition includes all the songs that Ives completed. The alphabetic approach ensures that each volume (of which this disc is the fourth of six) contains a representative cross-section
Paracelsus
Peaks
A Perfect Day
Pictures
Premonitions
Qu'il m'irait bien
The Rainbow (So it may be!), for small orchestra
Religion
Remembrance
Requiem
Resolution
Rock of Ages
Romanzo (di Central Park)
Rosamunde (1)
Rosamunde (2)
Rosenzweige
Rough Wind
A Scotch Lullaby
A Sea Dirge
The Sea of Sleep
and much more