This live Ives cycle was recorded in February of 2020 at Walt Disney Hall, and it made a splash at its performances at the time. There is an outlook that, as with Russians and Shostakovich, it takes American conductors to really get the Ives symphonies, with their profusion of vernacular references big and minute. That will have to be rethought in view of this superb set of readings from Gustavo Dudamel, conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Dudamel has rightly received praise for his magnificently detailed Symphony No. ...
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This live Ives cycle was recorded in February of 2020 at Walt Disney Hall, and it made a splash at its performances at the time. There is an outlook that, as with Russians and Shostakovich, it takes American conductors to really get the Ives symphonies, with their profusion of vernacular references big and minute. That will have to be rethought in view of this superb set of readings from Gustavo Dudamel, conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Dudamel has rightly received praise for his magnificently detailed Symphony No. 4, which uses a second conductor, Marta Gardolinska. This dense score, which very easily devolves into sonic mush, emerges here with exceptional clarity right from the beginning of the opening-movement Prelude, with an offstage choir, a piano, and numerous orchestral details. The Second and Third symphonies have the right slightly mystical, transcendent use of American hymns and folk music, but perhaps Dudamel's greatest triumph here is the Symphony No. 1, so often taken as a student...
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