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  • Release Date: 02/05/2002
  • Sales Rank: 11,451
  • Label: RCA
  • UPC: 090266370320

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Ives: An American Journey

1LISTENFrom the Steeples and the
2LISTENThe Things Our Fathers Lo
3LISTENThe Pond (Remembrance), f
4LISTENMemories, song for voice
5LISTENCharlie Rutlage, for orch
6LISTENMarch: The Circus Band (I
7LISTENOrchestral Set No. 1: Thr
8LISTENOrchestral Set No. 1: Thr
9LISTENOrchestral Set No. 1: Thr
10LISTENIn Flanders Fields, song
11LISTENThey Are There! (A War So
12LISTENTom Sails Away, song for
13LISTENSymphony No. 4, for orche
14LISTENPsalm 100, for double cho
15LISTENSerenity, for chorus, har
16LISTENGeneral William Booth Ent
17LISTENThe Unanswered Question (

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For Michael Tilson Thomas, championing Ives's music has been a lifelong pursuit. One of his first concerts as a 24-year-old assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony featured Ives's Three Places in New England, and he recorded the work for DG a year later. (That performance has been recently reissued as part of DG's "Originals" series.) Tilson Thomas went on to record the four Ives symphonies for Sony; they are still the best available and the most faithful to the composer's complex scores. This RCA disc is something of a hodgepodge, but then again, so is Ives's music. Three Places is here in a freshly scrubbed and vividly atmospheric performance, and so is The Unanswered Question -- a transcendental masterpiece -- while the Fugue from the Fourth Symphony shows Ives's nostalgic affection for academic forms. But it is the songs that really show Ives's expressive range, and Thomas Hampson sings them with admirable naturalness and understanding. "Memories" is a hoot, "Serenity" ethereal, and "Tom Sails Away" heartrending. Some are accompanied by solo piano (played by Tilson Thomas), others with orchestra. And the choral songs are terrific, too. "The Circus Band" is Ives at his most rousing and original; it's like a college fight song backed up by an unruly --even inebriated -- band. Recorded live, it possesses a sense of occasion that sets the spine tingling. The recording is spacious and quite powerful, with very little audience noise. Very strongly recommended. Andrew Farach-Colton, Barnes & Noble



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September 13, 2002: I listend to this CD and I find it as an excelent CD. I learnd from it that Ives did not write in any style but his own. He is not a shame to give convetional Harmony (like in memory) the Opera house is very funny and sung with a very humoristic an boysh style provide by Hampson. Hampson is a great singer. He sings Ives with alot of sensitivity Both music and style. I recomend this Cd with all my hart. If you don't know this artist and you are curios You better have this record. It explain Ives in a metter that no one explaided it to my when I studies American clasical music and 20Th century music in the university.