Ives: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

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Davis sifts the composer’s complexities with clarity. — Financial Times, 28th March 2015 More…

Release Date: 2nd Mar 2015
Catalogue No: CHSA5152
Label: Chandos
Series: Sir Andrew Davis conducts Charles Ives
Length: 77 minutes

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Ives, C: Symphony No. 1

Work length40:07

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Sir Andrew Davis, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Recorded: 28-29 July 2014
Recording Venue: Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

I. Allegro

Track length13:15

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II. Adagio molto

Track length7:43

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III. Scherzo. Vivace

Track length5:04

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IV. Allegro molto

Track length14:05

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Ives, C: Symphony No. 2

Work length37:12

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Sir Andrew Davis, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Recorded: 29-30 July 2014
Recording Venue: Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

I. Andante moderato

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II. Allegro

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III. Adago cantabile

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IV. Lento maestoso

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V. Allegro molto vivace

Track length10:03

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This is the first volume of a new series dedicated to the music of Charles Ives, performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and its principal conductor, Sir Andrew Davis. An amateur genius of avant-garde composing, who experimented with groundbreaking techniques years ahead of their time, the American composer started out with more conventional works – as shown by the two early symphonies recorded here.

Part of the score of the First Symphony was submitted as Ives’s graduation project at Yale University in 1898 but its unconventional structure did not match the taste of his professor, Horatio Parker. Looking back at it, Ives felt that Parker had coerced him into writing a pastiche-based work in order to help him achieve his degree. Although the most conservative of Ives’s symphonies, it was first performed only in 1953, after the premiere of the Third, in 1946, and the Second, in 1951.

The premiere of the Second Symphony was given by the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein on Washington’s birthday, and this momentous event in the overdue discovery of Ives’s music matched the nationalistic nature of the piece itself, described by the New York Times at the time as ‘rudely, tenderly, fantastically and cantankerously Yankee’.

Exclusive to Chandos, Sir Andrew Davis is the conductor in many of our bestselling recordings – among them, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius (CHSA5140(2)) and Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, with Tasmin Little (CHAN10796) – and has already recorded two highly praised albums with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

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28th March 2015

Davis sifts the composer’s complexities with clarity.

May 2015

The Melbourne performers rate highly and anyone wanting the first two symphonies together encapsulating early Ives can hardly do better.

5th March 2015

Davis and the orchestra capture the energy and moments of naughty-boy wildness in [the Second Symphony] right up to the piled-up dissonance of the final chord, always remembering that both symphonies are fundamentally cut from traditional musical cloth. It’s a promising start to the series, though the music will become more interesting as it goes on.

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