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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
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]
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 ...
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.
Three Places in New England was composed between 1903 and 1929. The set was completed in 1914 but was later revised for performance in 1929. The second piece, Putnam’s Camp, Redding, Connecticut was created from two short theater orchestra pieces composed by Ives in 1903.
When Ives recorded the Transcriptions in the 1930s, he restored most of these cadenza passages to the Transcriptions, and one photostat copy of the Transcriptions ("Copy C") shows how they were to be reinstated in writing (cf. the CD Ives Plays Ives for his recordings). Most of the more complex original text passages of the Sonata movement were ...