Ives: Three Places In New England; Ruggles, Et Al/ Dohnányi

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Ives: Three Places In New England; Ruggles, Et Al/ Dohnányi

	Release Date: 01/13/1998 Label: Decca Catalog #: 443776 Spars Code: DDD Composer: Charles Ives, Carl Ruggles, Ruth Crawford Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi Orchestra/Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus Number of Discs: 1 Recorded in: Stereo Length: 1 Hours 2 Mins.	List Price: $16.99 ArkivCD $14.99 In Stock On sale!

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This CD is reissued by ArkivMusic and includes liner notes.


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This disc was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for "Best Orchestral Performance." Charles Ives and Carl Ruggles were true pioneers, among the first American composers to follow their visions beyond the scope of their European-trained teachers and toward the founding of an experimental tradition. It was not easy: resistance in the musical establishment was great and recognition slow in coming. Ives won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for a work he had written forty-three years earlier and Ruggles, in his ninety-six years, never saw a performance of 'Sun Treader,' his greatest work. None of this music, beautiful as it is, will ever be easy listening. It was meant to challenge and it still does. Christoph von Dohnanyi leads fine, strong performances. 'Three Places in New England' is forthright if a shade prosaic while 'Orchestral Set No. 2' emerges from the fog with just the right ghostly atmosphere. Both 'Sun Treader' and 'Men and Mountains' pack a real wallop, unhesitant and uncompromising. And though it is relatively brief, the inclusion of Ruth Crawford Seeger's 'Andante for Strings' is a substantial bonus, a stark reminder of a great talent who wrote very little, but on a very high plane. REVIEWS: Fanfare (5-6/98, p.146) - "These are clean, vibrant performances of the two Ives orchestral sets; they reveal detail superbly while maintaining vivid ambience....Fine Ives and definitive Ruggles make this a great disc..."


Works on This Recording			Back to Top

1.	First Orchestral Set "Three Places in New England" by Charles Ives
	Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi Orchestra/Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: circa 1912-1921; USA	Date of Recording: 06/1993 Venue: Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio Length: 19 Minutes 6 Secs.


2.	Set no 2 for Small Orchestra by Charles Ives
	Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi Orchestra/Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus Period: 20th Century Written: ?1911-14; USA	Date of Recording: 01/1994 Venue: Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio Length: 15 Minutes 35 Secs. Language: English


3.	Men and Mountains by Carl Ruggles
	Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi Orchestra/Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1924/1941; USA	Date of Recording: 01/1994 Venue: Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio Length: 9 Minutes 28 Secs.


4.	Sun-treader by Carl Ruggles
	Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi Orchestra/Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1926-1931; USA	Date of Recording: 01/1994 Venue: Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio Length: 14 Minutes 9 Secs.


5.	Andante for Strings by Ruth Crawford
	Conductor: Christoph von Dohnányi Orchestra/Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1931/1938; USA	Date of Recording: 10/1994 Venue: Severance Hall, Cleveland, Ohio Length: 3 Minutes 57 Secs.

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