Charles Ives: The Three Orchestral Sets

Charles Ives: The Three Orchestral Sets

Charles Ives: The Three Orchestral Sets
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Composer: Ives
Conductor: Sinclair
Orchestra: Malmo Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Malmo Chamber Chrous
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-05-27
Music Label: Naxos American Classics
Soundtracks:
  1. Orchestral Set No. 1: Three Places in New England, for orchestra, S. 7 (K. 1A5): Impression of the St Gaudens in Boston Common (Col.
  2. Orchestral Set No. 1: Three Places in New England, for orchestra, S. 7 (K. 1A5): Children's Holiday at Putnam's Camp
  3. Orchestral Set No. 1: Three Places in New England, for orchestra, S. 7 (K. 1A5): The Housatonic at Stockbridge
  4. Orchestral Set No. 2, for orchestra (& optional chorus), S. 8 (K. 1A6): An Elegy to Our Forefathers
  5. Orchestral Set No. 2, for orchestra (& optional chorus), S. 8 (K. 1A6): The Rockstrewn Hills Join in the People's Outdoor Meeting
  6. Orchestral Set No. 2, for orchestra (& optional chorus), S. 8 (K. 1A6): From Hanover Square North, and the End of a Tragic Day, the V
  7. Orchestral Set No. 3, for orchestra, S. 9 (K. 1A8): - (Andante moderato)
  8. Orchestral Set No. 3, for orchestra, S. 9 (K. 1A8): During Camp Meetin' Week - One Secular Afternoon (in Bethel)
  9. Orchestral Set No. 3, for orchestra, S. 9 (K. 1A8): - (Andante)

Music reviews of Charles Ives: The Three Orchestral Sets

Music Review: Charles Ives emerges from the mist
Rating: 5 Stars

Charles Ives: The Three Orchestral Sets, James Sinclair (NAXOS).

Sinclair proved himself to me earlier on KOCH with the "Orchestral Music of Charles Ives" with the Orchestra New England. NAXOS made a wise decision for him to record the complete orchestral works for them.
This new title includes the first complete Orchestral Set No. 3, which Ives had only sketched out; this was the heart-breaking story of him coming down the stairs, tears in eyes, telling his wife that he had lost the ability to compose. This was shortly after his stroke. Apparently Ives could still sketch out ideas, but didn't have the energy to put the sketches together & proceed to a finished work. In this case, the first two parts of Set No. 3 were assembled from Ives' sketches by David Gray Porter, who has honored us with his review above, and the third part by Nors Josephson.

To Ives, who invented this genre, an "Orchestral Set" was a collection of shorter pieces strung together to create a seamless whole. They are in three movements, slow-fast-slow scheme, not unlike a simple sonata form.

In the case of Orchestral Set No. 1, also known as "Three Places In New England," the earlier version 1 is heard here for the first time. Here Ives trimmed back some of the complexities of the sketches (included in the second version) in order to have a more easily playable, simpler version (this was, after all, 1914).

This is a wonderful disc, and at NAXOS' dirt-cheap prices, you have no excuse not to get it.
Impressions: Civil War ghosts playing trumpets move in procession across the sound field; mists of sound form and float into each other, from which emerge wisps of forgotten hymns and old songs. It's like Debussy with balls.

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