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- Original Release Date: 5 Feb 2002
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| Song Title | Artist | Time | Price | |||
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| Play | 1. From the Steeples and the Mountains | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra;Michael Tilson Thomas | 4:13 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 2. The Things our Fathers Loved | Thomas Hampson | 1:47 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 3. The Pond (Remembrance) | Thomas Hampson | 1:41 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 4. Memories | Thomas Hampson | 2:29 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 5. Charlie Rutlage | Thomas Hampson;San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | 2:37 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 6. The Circus Band | Michael Tilson Thomas;San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | 3:02 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 7. Three Places in New England: The "St. Gaudens" in Boston Common | Michael Tilson Thomas | 8:51 | £2.29 | ||
| Play | 8. Three Places in New England: Putnam's Camp | Michael Tilson Thomas | 5:21 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 9. Three Places in New England: The Housatonic at Stockbridge | Michael Tilson Thomas | 4:06 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 10. In Flanders Fields | Thomas Hampson;San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | 2:41 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 11. They are There! | Michael Tilson Thomas;Thomas Hampson | 2:52 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 12. Tom Sails Away | Thomas Hampson | 2:48 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 13. Fugue from Symphony No. 4 | Michael Tilson Thomas | 6:37 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 14. Psalm 100 | Michael Tilson Thomas | 1:35 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 15. Serenity | Thomas Hampson;San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | 1:59 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 16. General William Booth Enters Into Heaven | Michael Tilson Thomas;Thomas Hampson | 5:42 | £0.89 | ||
| Play | 17. The Unanswered Question | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | 6:18 | £0.89 |
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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What a marvellous recording this is. This is no mere edited highlights or "best of" kind of album, it is an illuminating portrait of Charles Ives and what drives his music. The thanks for this go almost solely to Michael Tilson Thomas who devised the programme, which highlights Ives' nostalgia for childhood, a passing era, landscape, wartime and his transendental religious beliefs. The programme is the result of decades of research and devotion to Ives's music.
To those familiar with Ives' better known works there is still plenty to explore here and a chace too to see those familiar works in a new light. Ives is sometimes compared to Mahler for his all encompassing view of music and the similarities are extended here because it is clear that his own songs carried a big influence on such works as his Holidays Symphony, Fourth Symphony and the Orchestral Sets. Song, therefore, and not just borrowed vernacular, shape his symphonic works just as they did for Mahler.
Some of the works come in new arrangements and the democratically minded Ives was not too fussy about that. One that might surprise is the choral finale to the "Three Places in New England". The range and humour of the works on this programme might seem bewildering but there's no mistaking the person behind them. The style may vary from something close to Gilbert and Sullivan ("The Opera House"); cowboy music (Charlie Rutlage) - cowboy music that drifts into expressionism and speech song, as Charlie Rutlage meets his doom; to religious mysticism - "The Unanswered Question" / "From The Steeples to the Mountains" in other places. Rarely does Ives offer easy harmonies - even a Victorian parlour style song is given a polytonal accompaniement.
There are several lesser known gems to relish too: "General Booth Enters Heaven"; the anti war "Tom Sails Away" or the pro war and patriotic "They Are There". What really impresses is how these works link so inevitably together. The way that "Tom Sails Away" so naturally flows into the Fugue from the Fourth Symphony is remarkable and puts that fugue in a whole new light.
Add to all this fine live performances - though the odd detail gets lost here and there in a quite admittedly thin sound recording - and you have an indispensible recording. Whether you are new to Ives or very familiar; if you were to only ever have one Ives recording this would have to be the one. It's a great and loving tribute to Charles Ives from Michael Tilson Thomas.
To those familiar with Ives' better known works there is still plenty to explore here and a chace too to see those familiar works in a new light. Ives is sometimes compared to Mahler for his all encompassing view of music and the similarities are extended here because it is clear that his own songs carried a big influence on such works as his Holidays Symphony, Fourth Symphony and the Orchestral Sets. Song, therefore, and not just borrowed vernacular, shape his symphonic works just as they did for Mahler.
Some of the works come in new arrangements and the democratically minded Ives was not too fussy about that. One that might surprise is the choral finale to the "Three Places in New England". The range and humour of the works on this programme might seem bewildering but there's no mistaking the person behind them. The style may vary from something close to Gilbert and Sullivan ("The Opera House"); cowboy music (Charlie Rutlage) - cowboy music that drifts into expressionism and speech song, as Charlie Rutlage meets his doom; to religious mysticism - "The Unanswered Question" / "From The Steeples to the Mountains" in other places. Rarely does Ives offer easy harmonies - even a Victorian parlour style song is given a polytonal accompaniement.
There are several lesser known gems to relish too: "General Booth Enters Heaven"; the anti war "Tom Sails Away" or the pro war and patriotic "They Are There". What really impresses is how these works link so inevitably together. The way that "Tom Sails Away" so naturally flows into the Fugue from the Fourth Symphony is remarkable and puts that fugue in a whole new light.
Add to all this fine live performances - though the odd detail gets lost here and there in a quite admittedly thin sound recording - and you have an indispensible recording. Whether you are new to Ives or very familiar; if you were to only ever have one Ives recording this would have to be the one. It's a great and loving tribute to Charles Ives from Michael Tilson Thomas.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
In spite of a huge ammount of music Charles Ives has never really been fashionable.There's no equivalent of Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue or Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man.
As a visionary and outside the classical mainstream its a wonder Ives never got any rock star endorsement.Like Frank Zappa with Edgar Varese
Unless Ives used his sources like folk songs or hymns his actual music could be difficult but its worth persevering with.
But nowadays this area of symphonic music is in with a better chance of mass mainstream success when Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello become additions to the catalog
Its all there waiting to explore and this CD is the ultimate sampler
As a visionary and outside the classical mainstream its a wonder Ives never got any rock star endorsement.Like Frank Zappa with Edgar Varese
Unless Ives used his sources like folk songs or hymns his actual music could be difficult but its worth persevering with.
But nowadays this area of symphonic music is in with a better chance of mass mainstream success when Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello become additions to the catalog
Its all there waiting to explore and this CD is the ultimate sampler
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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Our View of the Ivesian Universe Expands
26 Mar 2002
Format:Audio CD
Michael Tilson Thomas makes a welcome move to RCA in his newest serving of Charles Ives. Hitherto, his best known Ives recording have all been on Sony. While excellent all in performance the sound quality was substandard (as is Sony's wont). In this we have some exquisite and fairly obscure Ives pieces. The rousing "General William Booth Enters into Heavan" is alone worth the price. Ives is manly known to listeners as a composer of disonant orchestral works. This only gives us a limited perspective of an artist who was as diverse in sentiment as he was in invention. The small and delightful songs on this disc will expand our awareness of one who is probably our greatest composer.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Superb sampling of a national treasure
17 April 2002
Format:Audio CD
Charles Ives' music was so ahead of his time when it was written that he became known to the public as an eccentric whose music was only of academic importance, hardly listenable, rarely worth programming. But it has taken the likes of Michael Tilson Thomas to place Ives in the roster of American Genius Composers where he so justly belongs. This new recording (live recording in Davies Hall in San Francisco) has a brilliant sound that adds to the magnificence of the larger Ives orchestral works (this must surely be the finest sounding "Three Places in New England" and "The Unanswered Question" available). But the joy of this particular collection of Ives' output is the inclusion of the whimsy and raucous songs both with piano (Thomas) and orchestral accompaniment. Thomas Hampson is the grateful choice for the songs and he sings with an abandon apropos of the texts. The San Franciso Symphony and Chorus are in top form as is Thomas. This recording is such a joy that it pleads the case for capturing live recording over studio dry redubs. A tribute to all involved - especially Ives!
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
A superb evening of Ives, the best in decades
18 Dec 2005
Format:Audio CD
Tilson Thomas's PR team should put out a ocntract on me; I rarely express enthusiasm for him. So let me bow especially low to this superlative 1999 concert of Ives as viewed from his most melodic, least revolutionary perspective. This is Ives as recording angel of ice cream socials and Fourth of July parades.
In the Seventies MTT made good but not exceptioanl recordings of Ives's major orchestral works. Here he concentrates on songs and orchestral bits and pieces, except for the extended Three Places in New England, which is x-rayed with exceptionally detailed sonics. Thomas Hampson secures his position as the best singer of American songs with highly dramatized, unbuttoned singing--his Charlie Rutlage, a Texas-accented elegy for a fallen cowpoke, and the familiar General William Booth Enters Into Heaven are instant classics. Chorus and orchestra enter in the spirit of bumptious good cheer, and overall a good time was had by all, even though the crowd was sent home sobered up by the supernaturally melancholy Unanswered Question, which never fails to send a shiver through the listener.
In the Seventies MTT made good but not exceptioanl recordings of Ives's major orchestral works. Here he concentrates on songs and orchestral bits and pieces, except for the extended Three Places in New England, which is x-rayed with exceptionally detailed sonics. Thomas Hampson secures his position as the best singer of American songs with highly dramatized, unbuttoned singing--his Charlie Rutlage, a Texas-accented elegy for a fallen cowpoke, and the familiar General William Booth Enters Into Heaven are instant classics. Chorus and orchestra enter in the spirit of bumptious good cheer, and overall a good time was had by all, even though the crowd was sent home sobered up by the supernaturally melancholy Unanswered Question, which never fails to send a shiver through the listener.
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