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When asked to define a masterpiece in music Stravinsky chose Ives’s Decoration Day, a tone poem that Ives later made the second movement of his Holidays Symphony (its first movement, ‘Washington’s Birthday’, is available on Naxos 8559087).
The remaining movements also celebrate key American holidays with characteristic verve.
The General Slocum movingly commemorates a 1904 boating disaster in which more than a thousand people lost their lives.
The Overture and Postlude are early works that nonetheless display Ives’s originality, while Yale- Princeton Football Game exuberantly depicts a legendary 1897 match.
Charles Ives: A Symphony - New England Holidays, "Holidays Symphony"
A Symphony - New England Holidays, "Holidays Symphony": II. Decoration Day (ed. J.B. Sinclair)
Charles Ives: The General Slocum (realization by D.G. Porter)
The General Slocum (realization by D.G. Porter)
Charles Ives: Overture in G minor (realization by D.G. Porter)
Overture in G minor (realization by D.G. Porter)
A Symphony - New England Holidays, "Holidays Symphony"
A Symphony - New England Holidays, "Holidays Symphony": III. The Fourth of July (realization by W.D. Shirley)
Charles Ives: Yale-Princeton Football Game (realization by J.B. Sinclair)
Yale-Princeton Football Game (realization by J.B. Sinclair)
Charles Ives: Postlude in F major (ed. K. Singleton)
Postlude in F major (ed. K. Singleton)
A Symphony - New England Holidays, "Holidays Symphony"
A Symphony - New England Holidays, "Holidays Symphony": IV. Thanksgiving Day (ed. J. Elkus)
19th November 2009
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“The sheer churning power and range of [Ives's] musical voice constantly takes the breath away...The performances by James Sinclair and the Malmö orchestra are powerfully wrought; at budget price, it's irresistible.”
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A Symphony - New England Holidays, "Holidays Symphony": II. Decoration Day (ed. J.B. Sinclair)