Ives, Charles - Three Orchestral Sets - Malmö Symphony Orchestra

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GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE

OPUS REKOMMENDERAR

HIFI & MUSIK / ÅRETS BÄSTA 2008

4 AV 5 MÖJLIGA I BETYG I DAGENS NYHETER

4 AV 5 MÖJLIGA I BETYG I TRELLEBORGS ALLEHANDA/YSTADS ALLEHANDA

"As always, there is darkness in Ives and James Sinclair here realises that fully, not least in the famous reference to the sinking of the Lusitania. There are also, often, discoveries. And here is a completed Third Orchestral Set. No doubt it will divide Ives scholars, but it is undoubtedly a fascinating achievement."
(Gramophone)

"Jag är oerhört imponerad av Malmösymfonikerna..."
(Opus)

The works on this recording focus on a singular genre created by a singular composer. The kind of piece Charles Ives called a 'set' is usually a larger work made by putting together independently-written smaller pieces. The First Orchestral Set, variously titled Three Places in New England and A New England Symphony, is one of Ives's great tributes to his roots. Put together around 1913-14 from material going back years, it is typically Ivesian in that each movement has an underlying program. Like the other sets, the Second has a slow-fast-slow pattern and a visionary hymn-based finale. The unfinished Third Orchestral Set was the only set Ives planned as a whole from the beginning. It may stand as the most profound discovery of the many and ongoing efforts to reconstruct Ives's incomplete works. This is its first complete performance and recording.