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Ives Plays Ives: The Complete Recordings of Charles Ives at the Piano is an album consisting of recordings, made during the years 1933–1943, of composer Charles Ives playing his own music. Background
New World Records issued 42 tracks of his recordings on CD on April 1, 2006, as Ives Plays Ives. In Canada in the 1950s, the expatriate English pianist Lloyd Powell played a series of concerts including all of Ives's piano works, at the University of British Columbia. [33] Recognition of Ives's music steadily increased.
H. or Ch. Ives Because of You Because Thou Art Berceuse O're the mountain 93 H. or Ch. Ives The Cage A leopard went around 64 H. or Ch. Ives The Camp Meeting Across the summer meadows 47 Charlotte Elliot from Symphony No. 3 Canon [I] Oh, the days are gone 111 19 Songs Moore Canon [II] Chanson de Florian Ah! s'il est dans votre village 78
The beginning of the Concord Sonata, first edition. The sonata's four movements represent figures associated with transcendentalism.In the introduction to his Essays Before a Sonata [13] [14] (published immediately before the Concord Sonata, and serving as what Henry and Sidney Cowell called "an elaborate kind of program note (124 pages long)" [15]), Ives said the work was his "impression of ...
Accentus Music released an all-Ives double DVD in Germany. This release consisted of two films, the first of which was Universe, Incomplete , which included The Gong on the Hook and Ladder . The two-hour feature was a stage production of Ruhrtriennale 2018, which was filmed at the Jahrhunderthalle , in Bochum , and was premiered on August 17, 2018.
The Unanswered Ives is an hour-long documentary about the life and musical career of the American composer Charles Ives. [1] Written and directed by German film maker Anne-Kathrin Peitz, the documentary features Ives' early years in Danbury, CT, his musical relationship with his father, education at Yale and later career as insurance executive and composer.
Ives was inspired to write Decoration Day after listening to his father's marching band play on Decoration Day. The marching band would march from the Soldiers' Monument at the center of Danbury to Wooster Cemetery, and there Ives would play "Taps". The band would leave often playing Reeves's "Second Regiment Connecticut National Guard March". [10]
Ives specified that the percussion part would be "impromptu or otherwise". [8] Each string part in the piece largely consists of scales. However, each instrument is in a different key: the first violin plays scales in C major; the second violin, in B major; the viola, in D-flat major; and the cello, in D major.