An heir to New England Transcendentalism, Ives shared its reverence for the beauty and power of the individual. His love for spontaneous, untrained creativity led him to explore compositional methods that anticipated not only the ideas on atonality formulated by Schoenberg, Berg and Webern but the radical experimentalism of composers of the second half of the twentieth century. All the works on this disc, from the ferociously complex pieces for instrumental ensemble to the microtonal works for keyboards, represent Ives at his wildest and most visionary, intent on stretching the ‘ear muscles’.
Ives, Charles
Johnson, Robert Underwood - Lyricist
The Housatonic at Stockbridge
1 The Housatonic at Stockbridge 03:24
Ives, Charles
Ives, Charles - Lyricist
Soliloquy, or a Study in 7ths and Other Things
2 Soliloquy, or a Study in 7ths and Other Things 00:49
On the Antipodes
3 On the Antipodes 02:37
Ives, Charles
The Gong on the Hook and Ladder, or Firemen's Parade on Main Street (version for piano quintet)
4 The Gong on the Hook and Ladder, or Firemen's Parade on Main Street (version for piano quintet) 01:28
Hallowe’en
5 Hallowe’en 02:33
In Re Con Moto et al, Op. 20
6 In Re Con Moto et al, Op. 20 03:02
Ives, Charles
Ives, Charles - Lyricist
Sunrise
7 Sunrise 05:35
Remembrance
8 Remembrance 01:01
Ives, Charles
Landor, Walter Savage - Lyricist
Aeschylus and Sophocles
9 Aeschylus and Sophocles 04:10
Ives, Charles
Five Take-offs
10 The Seen and Unseen? (Sweet and Tough) 03:04
11 Rough and Ready et al and / or The Jumping Frog 02:21
12 Song Without (Good) Words 04:02
13 Scene Episode 02:16
14 Bad Resolutions and Good WAN! (Jan. 1, 1907) 01:12
3 Quarter-Tone Pieces
15 Largo 04:05
16 Allegro 02:38
17 Chorale 04:38
Total Playing Time: 48:55
