Charles Ives - Symphonies Volume 1 | Hyperion SACDA67525

Charles Ives - Symphonies Volume 1

£14.20

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: SACDA67525

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 2nd October 2006

Contents

Artists

Christopher Adkins
Donnie Ray Albert
Dallas Symphony Chorus
Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Andrew Litton

Works

Ives, Charles

General William Booth enters into Heaven
Symphony no.2
Symphony no.3 'The Camp Meeting'

Artists

Christopher Adkins
Donnie Ray Albert
Dallas Symphony Chorus
Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Andrew Litton

About

One of a pair of exciting discs from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Litton, offering thilling new recordings of all four of Charles Ives’s extraordinary symphonies (the other is available on CDA67540/SACDA67540).

The idiosyncratic nature of Ives’s early musical training (simultaneous but competing marching bands, etc) is well
known, but before we can delight in its fruits, we find Ives-the-student writing a (relatively) conventional Symphony
No 1 under the watchful, if not always approving, stare of his tutor. The result is almost a pastiche of all that we know
and love from the late-nineteenth century symphonic tradition: Brahms, Dvorvák, Tchaikovsky.
 
Released from college in 1898, Ives rapidly shook off such influences, entered a new century and set about expanding his extraordinary vision through three further symphonies, culminating in the spiritual marathon of the fourth, which - Ives tells us - poses (and answers, threefold) the cosmic questions ‘what?’ and ‘why?’.
 
Alongside the four symphonies we have Central Park in the Dark, and an Ives-sanctioned orchestral arrangement of his most popular (and outrageous) solo song, General William Booth Enters into Heaven. The commanding baritone of Donnie Ray Albert tells the story of General Booth—founder of the Salvation Army—approaching the pearly gates, the great unwashed in his following (Dallas Symphony Chorus) assured of being ‘washed in the blood of the Lamb’: Hallelujah!
 
Captured live during concerts in Dallas, the recorded sound is every bit worthy of these epic works. Also available in conventional CD format (CDA67525).

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