Ives, Charles - Symphony No. 2 / Robert Browning Overture - Nashville Symphony Orchestra

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GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE



...This recording represents, in effect, a second premiere of Charles Ives' Symphony No. 2, some four decades after Leonard Bernstein's path-breaking recording for Sony Classical, recently reissued in the "Bernstein Century" series. Why premiere? Because Kenneth Schermerhorn and his excellent Nashville band play Jonathan Elkus' critical edition, prepared on behalf of the Ives Society. This new score supplants the previous "critical edition" edited by Malcolm Goldstein for inclusion in Michael Tilson Thomas' complete symphony cycle. The Society's president (and future conductor of several volumes in this ongoing series), James B. Sinclair explained to me recently that Goldstein's score represented an interim version of the work created in response to a practical need for a comparatively clean score and performance materials. The real musicological job of eliminating thousands of errors, collating and evaluating sources, and deciphering Ives' text has only just been completed, with impressive results that you can hear for yourself...

(classicstoday.com)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth Schermerhorn.





Charles Ives

1. Robert Browning Overture



Symfoni nr 2

2. I. Andante moderato

3. II. Allegro

4. III. Adagio cantabile

5. IV. Lento maestoso

6. V. Allegro molto vivace