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Nobody takes credit in the packaging for the basic idea behind Naxos' complete edition of the songs of Charles Ives: the distribution of the pieces among a large group of mostly young singers. But it's a great way of doing them. With a few exceptions, they are reasonable in their technical demands. They cover an enormous stylistic range, from more or less straightforward German Romantic songs to borrowings from many kinds of American vernacular music to Ives' unique musical transcendentalism. This disc, the second in the set, involves no fewer than 14 different singers (several singers get multiple songs) and five accompanists, performing songs dating from 1893, during Ives' youth, to 1921's Disclosure and The Greatest Man, at the very end of his career. The program never feels like a jumble, and in fact the singers have generally been well matched to their material. Sample by way of demonstration track 4, Dreams, with its theatrical sentimentality effectively delivered by tenor Kenneth Tarver, or the rather mysterious baritone of Robert Gardner in Down East, track 3. The recordings, though made over several months, were all done in the same venue: Sprague Hall at Yale University, lending further coherence to the whole. The only real objection here is the several pairs of Ives songs in which he set a German poem in German and then again in English -- a phenomenon that's worth a disc of its own -- are broken up among different discs in the series. But that won't be a problem for the many collectors and libraries who will be acquiring the entire set. And those buyers will be quite satisfied with what they're getting, at least, those with good Internet connections will be, for song texts are online only despite the fact that there was room in the booklet for 20 pages of Naxos advertising.
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December (Charles Ives)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lyricist - Charles Ives, Composer - J.J. Penna, Performer - Janna Baty, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Disclosure (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - Eric Trudel, Performer - Matthew Plenk, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Down East (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - Robert Gardner, Performer - Laura Garritson, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Dreams (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - Kenneth Tarver, Performer - Douglas Dickson, Performer - Anton Strelezki, Lyricist
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Du alte Mutter (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Lyricist - Douglas Dickson, Performer - Michael Cavalieri, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Du bist wie eine Blume (Charles Ives)
Heinrich Heine, Lyricist - Charles Ives, Composer - Tamara Mumford, Performer - Douglas Dickson, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Élégie (Charles Ives)
Louis Gallet, Lyricist - Charles Ives, Composer - J.J. Penna, Performer - Leah Wool, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
The Ending Year (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist - Sara Jakubiak, Performer - Douglas Dickson, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Evening (Charles Ives)
John Milton, Lyricist - Charles Ives, Composer - Mary Phillips, Performer - J.J. Penna, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Evidence (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - Eric Trudel, Performer - Matthew Plenk, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Weil' auf mir (Eyes so dark) (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - Nikolaus Lenau, Lyricist - Eric Trudel, Performer - Matthew Plenk, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Far from my Heav'nly Home (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - Henry Francis Lyte, Lyricist - Tamara Mumford, Performer - Frederick Teardo, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Far in the Wood (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist - Eric Trudel, Performer - Lielle Berman, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
A Farewell to Land (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - George Gordon Byron, Lyricist - Eric Trudel, Performer - Leah Wool, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
La Fede (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - Ludovico Ariosto, Lyricist - J.J. Penna, Performer - Leah Wool, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Feldeinsamkeit (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - Hermann Allmers, Lyricist - Douglas Dickson, Performer - Michael Cavalieri, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Flag Song (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - David Pittsinger, Performer - Eric Trudel, Performer - Henry S. Durand, Lyricist
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Forward into Light (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - Eric Trudel, Performer - Henry Alford, Lyricist - Jennifer Casey Cabot, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Friendship (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist - Eric Trudel, Performer - Matthew Plenk, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Frühlingslied (Charles Ives)
Heinrich Heine, Lyricist - Charles Ives, Composer - Eric Trudel, Performer - Heather Buck, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
General William Booth enters into Heaven (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - David Pittsinger, Performer - Vachel Lindsay, Lyricist - Douglas Dickson, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
God Bless and Keep Thee (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - David Pittsinger, Performer - Anonymous, Lyricist - Douglas Dickson, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Grace (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - Anonymous, Lyricist - Tamara Mumford, Performer - Douglas Dickson, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Grantchester (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - Rupert Brooke, Lyricist - Douglas Dickson, Performer - Michael Cavalieri, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
The Greatest Man (Charles Ives)
Charles Ives, Composer - Anne Collins, Lyricist - Douglas Dickson, Performer - Michael Cavaliere, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Gruss (Charles Ives)
Heinrich Heine, Lyricist - Charles Ives, Composer - Eric Trudel, Performer - Sumi Kittelberger, Performer
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
Albumbeschreibung
Nobody takes credit in the packaging for the basic idea behind Naxos' complete edition of the songs of Charles Ives: the distribution of the pieces among a large group of mostly young singers. But it's a great way of doing them. With a few exceptions, they are reasonable in their technical demands. They cover an enormous stylistic range, from more or less straightforward German Romantic songs to borrowings from many kinds of American vernacular music to Ives' unique musical transcendentalism. This disc, the second in the set, involves no fewer than 14 different singers (several singers get multiple songs) and five accompanists, performing songs dating from 1893, during Ives' youth, to 1921's Disclosure and The Greatest Man, at the very end of his career. The program never feels like a jumble, and in fact the singers have generally been well matched to their material. Sample by way of demonstration track 4, Dreams, with its theatrical sentimentality effectively delivered by tenor Kenneth Tarver, or the rather mysterious baritone of Robert Gardner in Down East, track 3. The recordings, though made over several months, were all done in the same venue: Sprague Hall at Yale University, lending further coherence to the whole. The only real objection here is the several pairs of Ives songs in which he set a German poem in German and then again in English -- a phenomenon that's worth a disc of its own -- are broken up among different discs in the series. But that won't be a problem for the many collectors and libraries who will be acquiring the entire set. And those buyers will be quite satisfied with what they're getting, at least, those with good Internet connections will be, for song texts are online only despite the fact that there was room in the booklet for 20 pages of Naxos advertising.
© TiVo
Details of original recording : 67:37 - DDD - Enregistré en Sprague Hall à l'Université Yale, New Haven (États-Unis) de mai à juin 2005 - Notes en anglais
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 26 track(s)
- Total length: 01:07:21
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artist: Janna Baty
- Composer: Charles Ives
- Label: Naxos
- Area: Etats-Unis d'Amérique
- Genre: Klassiek
- Period: Modern Style
- Collection: Naxos American Classics
2008 Naxos 2008 Naxos
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