Naxos' Charles Ives: Variations on 'America' features "The President's Own" United States Marine Band under the direction of its regular leader, Colonel Timothy W. Foley, in a program containing a mixture of arrangements from Ives works not originally for band and fresh editions of several that are. The dinky community and college bands that Ives wrote for in the 1890s aren't the U.S. Marine Band, and that has required at least some degree of adaptation for everything on the disc, yet the unanimity of sound gives the whole ...
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Naxos' Charles Ives: Variations on 'America' features "The President's Own" United States Marine Band under the direction of its regular leader, Colonel Timothy W. Foley, in a program containing a mixture of arrangements from Ives works not originally for band and fresh editions of several that are. The dinky community and college bands that Ives wrote for in the 1890s aren't the U.S. Marine Band, and that has required at least some degree of adaptation for everything on the disc, yet the unanimity of sound gives the whole collection a wonderful sense of fullness and makes for very satisfying listening. Keith Brion's clever realization of Ives' very early Variations on "Jerusalem the Golden" alternates Ives' original played on the small bore instruments common to the nineteenth century and the U.S. Marine Band proper, so one can hear the difference. This work has never been recorded before; neither has Runaway Horse on Main Street (1905), which in the past has been hindered by its incomplete state;...
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