Notes and Editorial Reviews
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Emerson:
4 Transcriptions.
Studies: Nos. 2, 9, 11, 20, 23. Sonata No. 2,
?Concord, Mass 1840-60?: ?The Alcotts? (complete); ?Emerson,? ?Hawthorne?: Fragments.
Largo. 3 Improvisations.
They Are There!
March No. 6,
?Here?s to Good Old Yale?
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Charles Ives (pn, voc)
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NEW WORLD 80642 (77: 57)
?Ives
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Plays Ives? is an exact reissue of a disc reviewed in
Fanfare
23:3. It signals not only the acquisition of the now defunct CRI?s catalog of American music, which is great news for us all, but also New World?s intentions to get the music back out there. This disc sounds identical to the CRI. Each booklet contains detailed provenances for every minute of the recordings, and each has articles by four of today?s foremost Ives scholars: James B. Sinclair, Vivian Perlis, Richard Warren, Jr., and David Gray Porter. E-mail from Sinclair says that the notes have been ?slightly corrected.? One difference between CRI and New World is that the latter contains its usual selected discography and bibliography. Although we are not told who did the selecting, the obviously well-informed choices are: Leonard Bernstein?s Columbia/Sony Second Symphony, Michael Tilson-Thomas leading the Third in Amsterdam and both the Fourth and ?Holidays? in Chicago, Marc-André Hamelin?s first ?Concord? on New World, Gregory Fulkerson?s Violin Sonatas, Jan DeGaetani?s Songs, the String Quartets with the Juilliard, and both volumes of Donald Berman?s ?The Unknown Ives.? I can?t argue with any of them. CRI has a rare color photo of Ives (one of only two, I believe) on its cover, and CRI has the larger, more legible print. It?s a standoff.
These are the complete recordings of Ives playing his own music at the piano (slightly edited) in four sessions: June 1, 1933; some time in the mid 1930s; May 11, 1938; and April 24, 1943. Let me plagiarize my earlier review: ?Ives?s playing is rapturous, fast, brilliant, subtle, and at all times surprising (never more so than when he breaks into song). This is not only history, this is wonderful, spirited music-making.? Need I add that it made my Want List 2000?
FANFARE: James H. North
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Works on This Recording
1.
Transcriptions (4) from Emerson: No 1 by Charles Ives
Performer:
Charles Ives (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: ?1917-23; USA
Date of Recording: 05/11/1938
Venue: Melotone Recording Co., New York City
Length: 1 Minutes 4 Secs.
Notes: This selection is presented in excerpted form.
2.
Transcriptions (4) from Emerson: No 3, Largo by Charles Ives
Performer:
Charles Ives (Piano)
Date of Recording: 04/24/1943
Venue: Mary Howard Studio, New York City
Length: 0 Minutes 57 Secs.
Notes: This selection is presented in excerpted form.
3.
Studies (23) for Piano: no 11 by Charles Ives
Performer:
Charles Ives (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: USA
Date of Recording: 05/11/1938
Venue: Melotone Recording Co., New York City
Length: 1 Minutes 2 Secs.
Notes: This selection is presented in excerpted form.
4.
Studies (23) for Piano: no 23, Allegro by Charles Ives
Performer:
Charles Ives (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: ?1909; USA
Date of Recording: 04/24/1943
Venue: Mary Howard Studio, New York City
Length: 2 Minutes 24 Secs.
Notes: This selection is presented in excerpted form.
5.
Studies (23) for Piano: no 9, The Anti-Abolitionist Riots by Charles Ives
Performer:
Charles Ives (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1908; USA
Date of Recording: 04/24/1943
Venue: Mary Howard Studio, New York City
Length: 2 Minutes 15 Secs.
6.
Studies (23) for Piano: no 2, Andante moderato - Allegro molto by Charles Ives
Performer:
Charles Ives (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: USA
Date of Recording: 05/11/1938
Venue: Melotone Recording Co., New York City
Length: 2 Minutes 4 Secs.
Notes: This selection is part of a medley which also includes "Studies (23) for Piano: no 23, Allegro."
This selection includes excerpts from "Studies" numbers 2 and 23.
7.
Improvisations (3) for Piano: no 1 by Charles Ives
Performer:
Charles Ives (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1933
Date of Recording: 05/11/1938
Venue: Melotone Recording Co., New York City
Length: 0 Minutes 50 Secs.
8.
Sonata for Piano no 2 "Concord, Mass 1840-60": 2nd movement "Hawthorne" by Charles Ives
Performer:
Charles Ives (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1911-1915; USA
Date of Recording: 05/11/1938
Venue: Melotone Recording Co., New York City
Length: 0 Minutes 17 Secs.
Notes: This selection is presented in excerpted form.
9.
Largo by Charles Ives
Performer:
Charles Ives (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1895-1898; USA
Date of Recording: 05/11/1938
Venue: Melotone Recording Co., New York City
Length: 1 Minutes 58 Secs.
10.
Improvisations (3) for Piano: no 3 by Charles Ives
Performer:
Charles Ives (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1933-1943
Date of Recording: 05/11/1938
Venue: Melotone Recording Co., New York City
Length: 0 Minutes 42 Secs.
11.
Sonata for Piano no 2 "Concord, Mass 1840-60": 1st movement "Emerson" by Charles Ives
Performer:
Charles Ives (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1911-1915; USA
Date of Recording: 04/24/1943
Venue: Mary Howard Studio, New York City
Length: 4 Minutes 2 Secs.
Notes: This selection is presented in excerpted form.
12.
They are there! by Charles Ives
Performer:
Charles Ives (Voice),
Charles Ives (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1942; USA
Date of Recording: 04/24/1943
Venue: Mary Howard Studio, New York City
Length: 2 Minutes 44 Secs.
Language: English
Notes: This selection is a fragment.
13.
March no 6, with "Here's to Good Old Yale" by Charles Ives
Performer:
Charles Ives (Voice),
Charles Ives (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: USA
Date of Recording: 04/24/1943
Venue: Mary Howard Studio, New York City
Length: 2 Minutes 9 Secs.
Language: English
14.
Sonata for Piano no 2 "Concord, Mass 1840-60": 3rd movement "The Alcotts" by Charles Ives
Performer:
Charles Ives (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1912-1914; USA
Date of Recording: 04/24/1943
Venue: Mary Howard Studio, New York City
Length: 5 Minutes 2 Secs.
15.
Studies (23) for Piano: no 20, Slow allegro or Fast andante by Charles Ives
Performer:
Charles Ives (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1908; USA
Date of Recording: 05/11/1938
Venue: Melotone Recording Co., New York City
Length: 0 Minutes 32 Secs.
Notes: This selection is presented in excerpted form.
16.
Unidentified by Charles Ives
Performer:
Charles Ives (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1938; USA
Date of Recording: 05/11/1938
Venue: Melotone Recording Co., New York City
Length: 0 Minutes 21 Secs.
17.
Improvisation by Charles Ives
Performer:
Charles Ives (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1933-1943
Date of Recording: 06/12/1933
Venue: Columbia Grammophone, Abbey Road, London
Length: 0 Minutes 44 Secs.
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