The 100th Anniversary

by Charles Ives

The 100th Anniversary cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1 January 1974
  • Label: Columbia Masterworks
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 3:40:15
  • Community rating: 3.91/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Issued for the Ives centenary, the five LP box gathers Columbia's Ives recordings alongside the composer's own piano recordings made between 1933 and 1943. It draws in part on Vivian Perlis's oral history project, and its version of 'They Are There!' preserves Ives performing his own song.

Genres

Descriptors: orchestral, complex, avant-garde, suite, experimental, modern

Tracklist

  1. The Fourth Of July (5:37)
  2. Hymn (Largo Cantaile) From "Set For String Quartet, Bass And Piano" (3:26)
  3. The Pond (1:54)
  4. General William Booth Enters Into Heaven (6:14)
  5. Variations On "America" (7:44)
  6. In Flanders Fields (2:17)
  7. The Circus Band (2:44)
  8. The Unanswered Question (5:15)
  9. I鈥擯relude, Trio And Chorus (7:22)
  10. II鈥擜ria For Baritone (3:47)
  11. III鈥擰uartet, Accompanied (6:06)
  12. IV鈥擨ntermezzo For String Quartet (4:34)
  13. V鈥擠ouble Quartet, A Capella (3:13)
  14. VI鈥擜ria For Tenor (3:59)
  15. VII鈥擟horale And Finale (7:38)
  16. Majority (Or The Masses) (4:23)
  17. They Are There! (A War Song March) (3:07)
  18. An Election (It Strikes Me That) (4:04)
  19. Lincoln, The Great Commoner (4:07)
  20. Slow March (4:42)
  21. Canon (Not Only In My Lady's Eyes)
  22. There Is A Certain Garden
  23. Judge's Walk (5:14)
  24. No More
  25. The New River (4:13)
  26. The Side Show
  27. West London
  28. Luck And Work (3:26)
  29. The One Way
  30. Peaks (5:01)
  31. Yellow Leaves
  32. A Sea Dirge
  33. Widmung (5:51)
  34. Feldeinsamkeit
  35. Resolution (4:56)
  36. Pictures
  37. Mists
  38. Incantation (6:13)
  39. September
  40. The Sea Of Sleep
  41. Requiem
  42. The Things Our Fathers Loved (9:04)
  43. Old Home Day
  44. Down East
  45. Emerson (End Of Exposition) (2:01)
  46. Emerson (Most Of Recapitulation) (3:59)
  47. Hawthorne (Fragment) (0:13)
  48. The Alcotts (Complete) (4:53)
  49. Emerson Transcription No. 1 With Interpolated Improvisations (5:19)
  50. Emerson Transcription No. 3 With Interpolated Improvisations (2:31)
  51. Improvisation On Themes From Second Symphony (Third Movement) (1:51)
  52. March No. 6 In G And D (2:06)
  53. Improvisation X (0:49)
  54. Improvisation Y (1:16)
  55. Improvisation Z (0:41)
  56. Study No. 9 ("The Anti-Abolitionist Riots") (2:11)
  57. (Study No. 11) (1:01)
  58. Fragment And Ragtime From Study No. 20 Quoting "Alexander" (0:47)
  59. From (Study No. 23) (0:57)
  60. From (Study No. 23) - Passage In Gospel Style Leading Into "Hello, Ma Baby" (1:05)
  61. They Are There! (3:31)
  62. Reminiscences Of The Composer By Relatives, Friends And Associates (23:12)
  63. Reminiscences Of The Composer By Relatives, Friends And Associates (25:41)

Credits

  • Joyce McGregor - artwork [mechanical art, lettering]
  • Dick Hess - cover [cover painting], painting [cover painting]
  • Seymour Lipkin - conductor [assistant]
  • A. J. "Babe" LaPine - interviewee
  • Bernard Herrmann - interviewee
  • Bigelow Ives - interviewee
  • Charles Buesing - interviewee
  • Chester Ives - interviewee
  • Leroy Parkins - executive-producer
  • Chris Nelson - liner notes [book editors]
  • Clara Sipprell - photography by
  • Lee Friedlander - photography by
  • W. Eugene Smith - photography by
  • Andrew Kazdin - producer
  • John McClure - producer

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