Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2 / The Gong on the Hook & Ladder, or Firemen's Parade on Main Street / Tone Roads No. 1 / Hymn: Largo Cantabile, for String Orchestra / Hallowe'en / Central Park in the Dark / The Unanswered Question
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Music Reviews of Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2 / The Gong on the Hook & Ladder, or Firemen's Parade on Main Street / Tone Roads No. 1 / Hymn: Largo Cantabile, for String Orchestra / Hallowe'en / Central Park in the Dark / The Unanswered Question
Music Review: brilliant idiosyncrasies
Rating: 5 Stars
Ives was an uncommon, refined distillate. Much like Wallace Stevens, another Connecticut Yankee insurance specialist thoroughly out of step with his environment, Ives's structural and thematic advances foretold radical new worlds. Many liner notes to recent Ives releases talk about his work as if it were like most other orchestral offerings--in reality, few touch upon how cataclysmic and inventive his realizations were. Bernstein, conversely, grasps Ives in totality and advances the cause of this frighteningly bold new music, both in practice and in writing at length about these scores and the Protean imagination that engendered them. Bravo, Lenny.
Music Review: A *great* CD
Rating: 5 Stars
If you're curious about Ives, this is about the best introduction to his music imaginable. The second symphony is completely tonal and a absolutely hilarious (I still laugh every time I hear the ending.) This is a must hear! The other pieces are more difficult on the ear to different extents, but they're short enough that they come across as fascinating rather than bothersome. I particularly liked "Central Park in the Dark" and "The Unanswered Question".Music Review: AMERICA! THIS IS YOUR MUSIC
Rating: 5 Stars
If you are curious about Ive's music you could'nt do better than to get this as a "sampler". This does'nt cover all of his material but gives a good overview of what the man was about. Bernstein's conducting is wonderful......just buy it! It'll make the world a better place.Music Review: The Best Ives
Rating: 4 Stars
Ives' works seem the precursor for many alternative, avant-garde composers of today. I've never genuinely cared for Symphony No.2, but, as programed into a sort of mini-suite of minor Ives compositions, I very much enjoyed the other pieces on this disk. Visionary and intriguing.Music Review: I've discovered Ives !!
Rating: 4 Stars
Absolutely a fine place to begin with Charles Ives. For the longest time, I couldn't listen to this stuff - just too weird. Now that I've jumped in, I want to hear more. The last chord of the 2nd symphony is hysterical.
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