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Most of the tracks are related to the "Emerson" movement of the Concord Sonata, and proved useful in the reconstruction of the Emerson Concerto. [5] However, Ives also recorded sections of the "Hawthorne" movement of the Sonata, and "The Alcotts" in its entirety, as well as excerpts from his Studies for piano and his First Symphony, [7] plus a raucous version of the song "They Are There!"
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The composer in 1913. Ives composed The Unanswered Question, subtitled "(a Cosmic Landscape)" in Ives's work papers, [12] in 1908 (though it is often erroneously dated 1906), [1] and revised it in 1930–1935, at which time he included a 13-bar introduction, made the woodwind parts more dissonant, and added further dynamic and articulation indications. [13]
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.
Bernard Herrmann, another long-time champion of Ives's music, recorded the work with the London Symphony Orchestra in Decca/London's 'Phase 4 Stereo' on January 4, 1972. He had given the UK premiere of Ives's 2nd Symphony in a BBC radio broadcast with the same orchestra on April 25, 1956, a historic performance that has now been released on CD ...