Symphony No. 4

by Charles Ives

Type: Album
Released: October 1965
Label: Columbia Masterworks
Country: United States
Length: 32:44
Community rating: 4.05/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Finally premiering decades after its composition, Ives' massive symphony requires multiple conductors to manage its overlapping tempos and colliding time signatures. The score integrates traditional American hymns, marching band motifs, and extreme dissonance into a chaotic, polytonal orchestral mass.

Genres

Modern Classical
Symphony
Orchestral Music

Descriptors: acoustic, instrumental, dissonant, patriotic, orchestral, symphonic, choral, avant-garde, long-form

Tracklist

Symphony no. 4, S. 4: I. Prelude: Maestoso (3:16)
Symphony no. 4, S. 4: II. Comedy: Allegretto (11:23)
Symphony no. 4, S. 4: III. Fugue: Andante moderato (9:19)
Symphony no. 4, S. 4: IV. Finale: Very slowly - Largo maestoso (8:45)

Credits

José Serebrier - liner notes
Ralph Couzens - re mastering