Ives, C: Orchestral Set No. 2 |
This page lists all recordings of Orchestral Set No. 2, by Charles Ives (1874-1954) on CD. Generally, more recent CDs are listed first, but with priority given to items that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Ives - The Three Orchestral Sets
Malmö Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Chorus, James Sinclair The works on this recording focus on a singular genre created by a singular composer. The kind of piece Charles Ives called a ‘set’ is usually a larger work made by putting together independently-written smaller pieces. The First Orchestral Set, variously titled Three Places in New England and A New England Symphony, is one of Ives’s great tributes to his roots. Put together around 1913-14 from material going back years, it is typically Ivesian in that each movement has an underlying program. Like the other sets, the Second has a slow-fast-slow pattern and a visionary hymn-based finale. The unfinished Third Orchestral Set was the only set Ives planned as a whole from the beginning. It may stand as the most profound discovery of the many and ongoing efforts to reconstruct Ives’s incomplete works. This is its first complete performance and recording “Well recorded, idiomatic performances all round - a real Ives discovery.” Gramophone Magazine, October 2008 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Morton Gould | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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" Particularly in the two Ives recordings you can hear just how important an advocate Leopold Stokowski was for music of this century. The 1970 LSO recording of Messiaen's Ascension is a finely-honed interpretation of this melancholy masterpiece, and is, I think, the best on disc anywhere."
-Paul Cook in American Record Guide | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 6 working days. |
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