Charles Ives, working as an insurance executive by day and a composer by night for all the years of his artistic career, produced relatively few large-scale works in long forms: two piano sonatas, four violin sonatas, four symphonies, a cantata, and an overture. Most of his music is in short forms, such as songs and brief piano or orchestral chamber music works, and even some major works are really collections of individual movements written at different times. One of Europe's leading dedicated new music groups, Ensemble ...
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Charles Ives, working as an insurance executive by day and a composer by night for all the years of his artistic career, produced relatively few large-scale works in long forms: two piano sonatas, four violin sonatas, four symphonies, a cantata, and an overture. Most of his music is in short forms, such as songs and brief piano or orchestral chamber music works, and even some major works are really collections of individual movements written at different times. One of Europe's leading dedicated new music groups, Ensemble Modern, here presents a fine selection of 26 of these short pieces, including five of the songs, the instrumental versions of several other songs, and two of the composer's "Sets."The whole production is a model of its type. The playing is outstanding. Where the primary interest of a piece is the sonic experimentation (for instance, in All the Way Around and Back, and the two extant Tone Roads), the Ensemble plays with precision and clarity. Where there is an emotional content to the...
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