Ives: New England Holidays

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Ives: New England HolidaysOpis:Product DescriptionIn this second volume, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Sir Andrew Davis play some of the most characteristic pieces of Charles Ives, an insurance salesman by trade and one of the most precociously original of all American composers. Three Places in New England composed between 1912 and 1916 and revised several times, as most of Ives's pieces were was one of Ives's first major works to receive long overdue attention. It is performed here in its fully orchestrated version, as Ives conceived it at an early stage. The first movement, characteristically, features a superimposition of various thematic fragments of popular melodies accompanied by a simple march beat of timpani and lower strings. The album also features A Symphony: New England Holidays, its four constituent movements (marking national holidays) forming a chronological sequence of the seasons. They can perfectly well be performed in isolation however, which is why Ives chose not to include the work amongst his numbered symphonies. Central Park in the Dark and The Unanswered Question are shorter, companion pieces, the essential light- heartedness of the former pointedly contrasting with the more serious metaphysics of the latter.

ReviewWith Ives (1874-1954), you never know what s coming next and which direction it's coming from. Like Gustav Mahler (who showed interest in his music, but never got around to conducting it) Ives fills his works with commonplace objects nursery rhymes, marching tunes and thrusts them at the listener from awkward and unexpected angles. The New England Holiday Symphony not to be confused with Three Places in New England is a compendium of four pieces that Ives wrote to mark such American monuments as Washington's Birthday, the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving. It keeps getting going nicely, only to get drive off the highway by a passing piper or an ice-cream van. Three Places, by comparison, is a coherent masterpiece, albeit with inbuilt confusions. There are 11 different kinds of slow marked in the opening Place (Boston Common). A sense of physical deliverance arrives when the band finally strikes up in double-time. The remaining works here are the well-known Central Park in the Dark a safe walk in Ives's day and, even better known, The Unanswered Question.

The sound is clean and digital and the conjunction of these essential works on one album is more than useful. That alone is worth an extra star. **** --Sinfini Music , 02/01/16Andrew Davis and the Melbourne Symphony began their Ives survey with the first two symphonies, both composed around the turn of the 20th century. But this second disc goes right to the core of Ives s achievement. The four independent pieces that make up his Holidays Symphony, and the Three Places in New England, contain some of his most radical experiments in orchestral layering, exceeded only by the Fourth Symphony. The haunted soundscapes of Central Park in the Dark and The Unanswered Question, intended as companion pieces but rarely performed as such, are almost as striking. In a sleeve note, Davis discusses the problems involved in realising some of the effects that Ives sought to achieve and the ways in which he, the orchestra and the Chandos engineers have tried to solve them. What they have achieved seems remarkably successful; it s rare to hear a recording in which so much of the detail in these teeming scores has been captured. One might can quibble over some passages there are a moments that do seem too contained and civilised, when a bit more untidiness and wildness might have been appropriate but overall it is a wonderfully realised collection of some of the most remarkable American music of the 20th century. **** --Guardian, 14/1/16Conductor Andrew Davis brings clarity out of the maverick's chaos.

Ft,22/1/16 /// Bringing all these pieces together in a dedicated modern performances, with imaginative balance decisions, this disc is a welcome landmark. GramoAutor:Melbourne Symph Orch/DavisNośnik:Płyt:Język: EnglishData wydania: 2015-01-12Waga: 0.25 gramWysokość: 0.4 cmSzerokość: 4.9 cmDługość: 5.6 cmUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.