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    Augustin Hadelich, Orion Weiss - American Road Trip (2024)

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    Augustin Hadelich, Orion Weiss - American Road Trip (2024)

    Augustin Hadelich, Orion Weiss - American Road Trip (2024)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 360 Mb | Total time: 77:13 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 5021732287908 | Recorded: 2024

    Violinist Augustin Hadelich embarks on an American Road Trip, travelling the musical highways and byways of his adoptive homeland in the company of pianist Orion Weiss. The duo perform works by a melting pot of American composers, writing in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries and drawing on a diversity of idioms, influences and inspirations … from European Romanticism to revivalist hymns; from blues and jazz to bluegrass; from the banjo and ukelele to Jimi Hendrix’s guitar, and from a little Mexican star to exquisite Japanese carvings. Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Ives and John Adams take their place beside Amy Beach, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Eddie South, Howdy Forrester, Manuel M. Ponce and – flying the flag for today’s composers along with Adams – Daniel Bernard Roumain and Stephen Hartke.

    Tamara Stefanovich - Influences: Ives, Bartok, Messiaen, Bach (2019)

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    Tamara Stefanovich - Influences: Ives, Bartok, Messiaen, Bach (2019)

    Tamara Stefanovich - Influences: Ives, Bartok, Messiaen, Bach (2019)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 264 Mb | Total time: 79:39 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Pentatone ‎| # PTC5186741 | Recorded: 2018

    On her first Pentatone album, pianist Tamara Stefanovich presents a highly personal selection of solo works by Bach, Bartók, Ives and Messiaen. Influences shows how these extraordinarily original and idiosyncratic composers let themselves be inspired by the exterior world, thereby demonstrating how authenticity comes from looking outside as well as inside. The repertoire spans from Bach's embrace of Italian musical elements in his Aria variata alla maniera italiana, Bartók's incorporation of folk elements in his Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, and Messiaen's use of Hindu rhythms in Cantéyodjayâ to the collage of marching bands, sounds of trains and machinery, church hymns, ragtime and blues in Ives' first piano sonata.

    Piano Library. Deutsche Grammophon Edition [22CDs] (2024)

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    Piano Library. Deutsche Grammophon Edition [22CDs] (2024)

    Piano Library. Deutsche Grammophon Edition [22CDs] (2024)
    XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 4,29 Gb | Total time: 19:56:40 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: DG Eloquence | # 484 3089 | Recorded: 1949-1980

    Astounding debuts and legendary piano treasures on disc: newly remastered albums of 21 pianists from the analogue era, including many first-ever digital transfers.

    Charles Ives - The Anniversary Edition (Remastered) (2024)

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    Charles Ives - The Anniversary Edition (Remastered) (2024)

    Charles Ives - The Anniversary Edition (Remastered) (2024)
    WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 539 MB
    3:44:12 | Classical | Label: Sony Music Classical

    On the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Ives - acclaimed by his champion Leonard Bernstein as the 'first great American composer', who, 'all alone in his Connecticut barn, created his own private musical revolution' - Sony Classical presents the most authoritative recording collection ever released of works by this eccentric, prophetic genius. The 5-CD box set 117 tracks 'Charles Ives - The Anniversary Edition' is a unique and provocative introduction.

    Joyce DiDonato, Maxim Emelyanychev, Il Pomo d’Oro - Eden (2022)

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    Joyce DiDonato, Maxim Emelyanychev, Il Pomo d’Oro - Eden (2022)

    Joyce DiDonato, Maxim Emelyanychev, Il Pomo d’Oro - Eden: Ives, Portman, Mahler, Marini, Copland, Valentini, Cavalli, Gluck, Wagner, Handel, Mysliveček (2022)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 302 Mb | Total time: 68:29 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Erato| # 0190296465154 | Recorded: 2021

    "EDEN is an invitation to return to our roots. It is an overture to engage with the sheer perfection of the world around us, to consider if we are connecting as profoundly as we can to the pure essence of our being. It is a clarion call to contemplate if our collective suffering isn't perhaps linked to the aching separation from something primal within and around us. This is a vivid musical exploration through the centuries to remember and to create a new EDEN from within." - Joyce DiDonato

    Kronos Quartet - Black Angels (1990)

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    Kronos Quartet - Black Angels (1990)

    Kronos Quartet - Black Angels (1990)
    George Crumb, Thomas Tallis, István Mártha, Charles Ives, Dmitri Shostakovich

    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 243 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 149 Mb | Scans included
    Label: Nonesuch/Elektra | # 7559-79242-2 | Time: 01:01:39
    Classical, Contemporary, Avant-Garde

    This disc is supposed to hurt. Just look at the program: it starts with Crumb's Black Angels for electric string quartet, a work that is the aural equivalent of Coppola's Apocalypse Now, and ends with Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8, a work that is either the aural equivalent of a monument to the victims of war and fascism written in the ruins of Dresden or the musical equivalent of a suicide note written before the composer joined the Communist Party. With the spooky and evocative performances of Thomas Tallis Spem in Alium, Istvan Marta's Doom. A Sigh, and Charles Ives' There They Are!, this disc is so painful it could be the soundtrack for an unmade Kubrick movie. The question is, is this disc supposed to hurt so much? The Kronos Quartet is a harsh and aggressive ensemble with an angular approach to rhythm and structure and an overwhelming need to assert its individual and collective identity.

    Joanna MacGregor - Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No.1; Samuel Barber: Piano Sonata, Op.26; Excursions, Op.20 (1991)

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    Joanna MacGregor - Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No.1; Samuel Barber: Piano Sonata, Op.26; Excursions, Op.20 (1991)

    Joanna MacGregor - Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No.1;
    Samuel Barber: Piano Sonata, Op.26; Excursions, Op.20 (1991)

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 202 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 163 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Collins Classics | # 11072 | Time: 01:08:03

    Older Ives enthusiasts may recall the First Piano Sonata in performances by William Masselos who played the work for the first time in 1954, the year the composer died. Odd, but familiar in Ives, for such a masterpiece to have to wait 45 years to be heard! Masselos made two recordings (nla) which established the character of this richly inventive work. The one by Noel Lee (on a Nonesuch LP—only available in the USA) made in the late 1960s is almost as impressive. Joanna MacGregor's recording is now a landmark since there is effectively no competition in the British catalogue: DJF found little to recommend in John Jensen's performance on Music and Arts (9/90) so it is best to compare MacGregor, who is certainly busy in the recording studios these days, with these earlier Americans.

    Pierre-Laurent Aimard: The Warner Recordings (2012) 6 CD Box Set

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    Pierre-Laurent Aimard: The Warner Recordings (2012) 6 CD Box Set

    Pierre-Laurent Aimard: The Warner Recordings (2012) 6 CD Box Set
    Debussy, Ravel, Boulez, Berg, Ives, Messiaen, Ligeti, Carter, Beethoven, Liszt

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 1.2 Gb | Scans included | Time: 07:03:59
    Genre: Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 2564 66044-8

    Released between 1991 and 2005, the selections in The Warner Recordings encapsulate the period when Pierre-Laurent Aimard was signed to Erato and Teldec, performing mostly 20th-century fare and some music from the 19th century. Aimard is famous for his contributions to the modernist catalog, and his performances of works by Pierre Boulez, Elliott Carter, György Ligeti, and Olivier Messiaen are regarded as scrupulously executed and authoritatively interpreted. Aimard also recorded early 20th century pieces by Charles Ives, Alban Berg, Maurice Ravel, and Claude Debussy, as well as Romantic masterpieces of Beethoven and Liszt. A pianist's pianist, Aimard is well-rounded in his repertoire and a true master of keyboard technique, yet he has received considerably less fanfare than many of his flashier colleagues. Yet connoisseurs of piano recordings know that Aimard is indispensible, especially for his special feeling for French music, and his recordings are important documents that serious students and newcomers should appreciate.

    Grete Pedersen, The Norwegian Soloists' Choir - Veni: Songs of Christmas II (2022)

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    Grete Pedersen, The Norwegian Soloists' Choir - Veni: Songs of Christmas II (2022)

    Grete Pedersen, The Norwegian Soloists' Choir - Veni: Songs of Christmas II (2022)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 264 Mb | Total time: 56:35 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-SACD-2511 | Recorded: 2021

    December is a time of anticipation. We wait and we hope - veni, come! The songs on this album encompass many nuances and moods - from joy and jubilant celebration to deep melancholy and longing. They move between folk tunes, English carols and traditional Christmas songs from different times and parts of the world, between Bach and Ives, Bulgaria and Norway. Several of the songs refer to the passing of the year, the cycle of nature and rhythms of daily life: lullabies for peace of mind and comfort, and songs about surrendering ourselves to the unfathomable and unknowable in the midst of our everyday concerns: the stars will always shine in the sky - and dawn will come.

    Anna Prohaska, Julius Drake - Paradise Lost (2020)

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    Anna Prohaska, Julius Drake - Paradise Lost (2020)

    Anna Prohaska, Julius Drake - Paradise Lost (2020)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 228 Mb | Total time: 64:00 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Alpha Classics | # ALPHA 581 | Recorded: 2019

    The gestation of this project lasted two years. Anna Prohaska and Julius Drake finally concentrated their research on the themes of Eve, Paradise and banishment. Some songs were obvious choices, such as Fauré's Paradis, in which God appears to Eve and asks her to name each flower and animal, or Purcell's Sleep, Adam, sleep with it's references to Genesis. But Anna Prohaska also wished to illustrate the cliché of the woman who brought original sin into the world and her status as a tempter who leads man astray, as in Brahms's Salamander, Wolf's Die Bekehrte or Ravel's Air du Feu.

    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis - Charles Ives: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (2016)

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    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis - Charles Ives: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (2016)

    Charles Ives: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (2016)
    Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 267 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 173 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos | # CHSA 5163 | Time: 01:12:27

    In this second volume, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Sir Andrew Davis play some of the most characteristic pieces of Charles Ives, an insurance salesman by trade and one of the most precociously original of all American composers.

    Joonas Ahonen, Pekka Kuusisto - Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No.2 'Concord' & Violin Sonata No.4 (2017)

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    Joonas Ahonen, Pekka Kuusisto - Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No.2 'Concord' & Violin Sonata No.4 (2017)

    Charles Ives - Piano Sonata No.2 & Violin Sonata No.4 (2017)
    'Concord' & 'Children’s Day at the Camp Meeting'
    Joonas Ahonen (piano) & Pekka Kuusisto (violin)

    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 199 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 142 Mb | Artwork included
    Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-2249 SACD | Time: 00:58:55

    Charles Ives’s ‘Concord Sonata’ is often described as one of the greatest of American piano works. Published in 1920, at the composer’s own expense, it contains radical experiments in harmony and rhythm and would have to wait until 1939 for its first public performance. In the course of its four movements, Ives depicts some of the famous inhabitants of the small town of Concord in Massachusetts, a centre of the mid-19th century transcendentalism movement. Luminaries of the movement such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are alluded to in various ways in music that includes references to Beethoven, religious and patriotic hymns and circus marches, as well as brief ‘guest appearances’ by a viola and a flute. Lasting 47 minutes on the present recording, Ives’s second piano sonata is a massive work of a staggering complexity, and a true challenge for any performer – a challenge more than readily accepted by the young Finnish pianist Joonas Ahonen, who has previously recorded Ligeti’s piano concerto for BIS.

    Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Andrew Davis - Charles Ives: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 / Orchestral Set No.2 (2017)

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    Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Andrew Davis - Charles Ives: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 / Orchestral Set No.2 (2017)

    Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Andrew Davis - Charles Ives: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 / Orchestral Set No.2 (2017)
    EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers + Digital Booklet | 01:11:00 | 328 MB
    Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos Records | Catalog: CHAN 5174

    With this release, Sir Andrew Davis and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra round out their Ives cycle in superb form. Recordings of Ives, unlike Gershwin, by groups outside of the U.S. may still be comparatively rare, but Davis has nailed the essential diverse, dense networks of Ives' language, assisted by new performing editions and by excellent Chandos engineering in two different Melbourne venues, thereby keeping the multiple strands of the music clear.

    The Sixteen, BBC Philharmonic, Harry Christophers - A la Gloire de Dieu: Works by Ives, Stravinsky, Tippett & Poulenc (1995)

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    The Sixteen, BBC Philharmonic, Harry Christophers - A la Gloire de Dieu: Works by Ives, Stravinsky, Tippett & Poulenc (1995)

    À la Gloire de Dieu: Works by Ives, Stravinsky, Tippett & Poulenc (1995)
    The Sixteen; BBC Philharmonic; Harry Christophers, conductor

    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 212 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 156 Mb | Scans included
    Genre: Classical, Choral | Label: Collins | # 14462 | Time: 01:03:15

    The Sixteen, bright stars of the Baroque, have plenty to say on 20th-century repertoire (witness their excellent Britten series on Collins). Underpin them with the BBC Philharmonic and it might seem a magic formula. Ives’s unearthly The Unanswered Question holds few problems for instrumental players weaned on Maxwell Davies – no more than do the brilliant wind roulades of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. Deft BBC teamwork and a chamber articulation to woodwind and brass helps this Koussevitzky-commissioned masterpiece to shed its often hammy ‘big band’ sound, creeping closer to the subtle, leaner sonorities of his later choral works. It gains. The singing varies. Too many dynamic shifts sound prosaic or under-prepared; fortes are forced, with muddy results. The vocal blend (happier in lower voices) can seem haphazard and colours the Tippett, where the men’s roars – contrast the lovely, sensual soprano solo – seem crude. Get this disc, instead, for the rare, late Poulenc – his New York-commissioned Sept répons. It is a curiously under-recorded devotional work, bleeding with pathos yet pumping energy, its exoticism enhanced by slightly breathy, tender solos, and scintillatingly sung with just those crucial missing qualities of awe and freshness. A million times more refined than what goes before.

    Olivia Vermeulen, Jan Philip Schulze - Hello Darkness (2021)

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    Olivia Vermeulen, Jan Philip Schulze - Hello Darkness (2021)

    Olivia Vermeulen, Jan Philip Schulze - Hello Darkness (2021)
    EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 304 Mb | Total time: 71:50 | Scans included
    Classical | Label: Challenge Classics | # CC 72887 | Recorded: 2021

    Dedicating an album to the dark side of the Lied might seem inappropriate in these times of Covid, climate change and refugee crises, but as a mezzo-soprano Olivia has always been drawn to the darker roles in opera, the sad arias in oratorio and the deep laments in song. After our recent recording ('Dirty Minds'), which focused on 'la petite mort', it seemed a natural progression to turn our attention to 'la grande mort'! Darkness in the outside world and the inner self has always been - alongside Love - one of the chief themes of vocal music, and compositions and songs about death are legion during every period of musical history.