quinta-feira, 2 de maio de 2024

CHARLES IVES : 9 Songs • GEORGE CRUMB : Apparition (Jan DeGaetani · Gilbert Kalish) (1987) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

CHARLES IVES (1874-1954)

9 Songs

GEORGE CRUMB (1929-2022)

Apparition, for soprano & amplified piano
(Text by Walt Whitman)

Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Jan DeGaetani
Piano – Gilbert Kalish
Piano [Amplified] – Gilbert Kalish

IVES : Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (The Ambrosian Singers · New Philharmonia Orchestra · Harold Farberman) (1997) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

IVES : Symphony No. 4 · Three Places In New England · Central Park In The Dark (Seiji Ozawa · Boston Symphony Orchestra · Michael Tilson-Thomas) (1977) Serie 20th Century Classics | FLAC (image+.cue), lossless


CHARLES IVES : String Quartets (Blair String Quartet) (2006) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

 

Charles Ives, a New Englander by birth and character, began composing at the age of eleven, although after deciding that he would never make a living with his music he pursued a successful career in insurance. He was trained by his father George, a bandleader, who encouraged him to experiment with the unconventional techniques that were to become his signature, such as polytonality, microtones and spatial performance. Ives’s two string quartets are as unalike in origin as they are in content. The First Quartet uses his beloved revival and gospel hymns as musical sources, and its energy and originality provide an early example of Ives’s highly original creative powers. The highly complex Second String Quartet was born of a typical Ives rage against what he perceived as the effeminacy of standard string quartet performances. Ives himself summarised the work’s programme as: ‘four men – who converse, discuss, argue ... fight, shake hands, shut up – then walk up the mountainside to view the firmament’. Naxos

ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA – A Set of Pieces : Music by Charles Ives (1994) APE (image+.cue), lossless

Three Places In New England ("First Orchestral Set")

A Set Of Pieces
Symphony No. 3 "The Camp Meeting"
Set No. 1, for theater orchestra (6), S. 10 (K. 1C31)

Orchestra – Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Piano – Gilbert Kalish