Symphonies 1 & 4

by Charles Ives

Symphonies 1 & 4 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: London
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 2:37:12
  • Community rating: 3.31/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Michael Tilson Thomas leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in this critically lauded pairing of the visionary American composer's works. The recording contrasts the relatively traditional European romanticism of Ives's First Symphony with the staggeringly complex, polytonal, and hymn-quoting dissonance of his colossal Fourth.

Genres

Descriptors: Modern

Tracklist

  1. Symphony No. 1: 1. Allegro (11:28)
  2. Symphony No. 1: 2. Adagio molto (sostenuto) (7:49)
  3. Symphony No. 1: 3. Scherzo: Vivace (4:29)
  4. Symphony No. 1: 4. Allegro molto (6:42)
  5. Symphony No. 4: 1. Prelude (Walt Whitman) (3:23)
  6. Symphony No. 4: 2. Allegretto (12:43)
  7. Symphony No. 4: 3. Fugue. Andante moderato (8:15)
  8. Symphony No. 4: 4. Very slowly - Largo maestoso (8:41)
  9. Orchestral Set No. 2: 1. An Elegy to our Forefathers (3:33)
  10. Orchestral Set No. 2: 2. The Rockstrewn Hills... (4:40)
  11. Orchestral Set No. 2: 3. From Hanover Square North... (7:29)
  12. Symphony No. 2: 1. Andante moderato (5:51)
  13. Symphony No. 2: 2. Allegro (10:27)
  14. Symphony No. 2: 3. Adagio cantabile (9:35)
  15. Symphony No. 2: 4. Lento maestoso (2:32)
  16. Symphony No. 2: 5. Allegro molto vivace (9:00)
  17. Symphony No. 3 - "The Camp Meeting": 1. Old Folks Gatherin' (Andante maestoso) (7:47)
  18. Symphony No. 3 - "The Camp Meeting": 2. Children's Day (Allegro moderato) (7:17)
  19. Symphony No. 3 - "The Camp Meeting": 3. Communion (Largo) (6:13)
  20. 3 Places in New England: 1. The "St. Gaudens" in Boston Common (Col. Shaw and his Colored Regiment) (9:01)
  21. 3 Places in New England: 2. Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut (6:06)
  22. 3 Places in New England: 3. From "The Housatonic at Stockbridge" by Robert Underwood Johnson (4:04)

Credits

  • Charles Ives - primary artist, composed by
  • Andrew Litton - primary artist, conductor
  • Emanuel Borok - leader

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