Charles Edward Ives a fost un compozitor american din secolul XX, a cărui abordare inovatoare a muzicii a prefigurat dezvoltarea muzicii clasice moderne. Creația sa se caracterizează prin utilizarea politonalității, a ritmurilor complexe și a citatelor din cântece populare și imnuri americane.
Box-ul Charles Ives The Anniversary Edition pe cinci CD-uri prezintă o trecere în revistă cuprinzătoare a operei lui Ives. Include lucrări orchestrale (celebra compoziție The Unanswered Question, The Fourth of July), cantata The Celestial Country, colecții de cântece inclusiv în germană, marșuri de război și un ciclu vocal. Al patrulea disc conține înregistrări autentice unice – compozitorul interpretează la pian propriile compoziții, inclusiv pasaje din celebra a Doua Sonată „Concord”. Al cincilea disc aduce amintiri despre compozitor din partea rudelor, prietenilor și colaboratorilor.
Melodii
1The Fourth Of July
2Hymn (Largo Cantaile) From "Set For String Quartet, Bass And Piano"
3The Pond
4General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
5Variations On "America"
6In Flanders Fields
7The Circus Band
8The Unanswered Question
CD2:
The Celestial Country
1No. 1 Prelude, Trio And Chorus
2No. 2 Aria For Baritone
3No. 3 Quartet, Accompanied
4No. 4 Intermezzo For String Quartet
5No. 5 Double Quartet, A Capella
6No. 6 Aria For Tenor
7No. 7 Chorale And Finale
4 Songs For Chorus And Orchestra
8Majority (Or The Masses)
9They Are There! (A War Song March)
10An Election (It Strikes Me That)
11Lincoln, The Great Commoner
CD3: The Things Our Fathers Loved
Earlier Songs
1Slow March
2Canon [I]: Not Only In My Lady’s Eyes
3There Is A Certain Garden
4On Judge's Walk
5No More
Mundane Songs
6The New River
7The Side Show
8West London
9Luck And Work
Later Songs
10The One Way
11Peaks
12Yellow Leaves
13A Sea Dirge
German Songs
14Widmung
15Feldeinsamkeit
Visionary Songs
16Resolution
17Pictures
18Mists
19Incantation
20September
21The Sea Of Sleep
22Requiem
23The Things Our Fathers Loved
24Old Home Day
25Down East
CD 4: Ives Plays Ives
From The Second Piano Sonata, "Concord, Mass. 1840-1860"
1Emerson (End Of Exposition)
2Emerson (Most Of Recapitulation)
3Hawthorne (Fragment)
4The Alcotts (Complete)
5Emerson Transcription No. 1 With Interpolated Improvisations
6Emerson Transcription No. 3 With Interpolated Improvisations
7Improvisation On Themes From Second Symphony (Third Movement)
8March No. 6 In G And D
9Improvisation X
10Improvisation Y
11Improvisation Z
12Study No. 9 ("The Anti-Abolitionist Riots")
13(Study No. 11)
14Fragment And Ragtime From Study No. 20 Quoting "Alexander"
15From (Study No. 23)
16From (Study No. 23) - Passage In Gospel Style Leading Into "Hello, Ma Baby"
17They Are There
CD5: Charles Ives Remembered
1-56 Reminiscences Of The Composer By Relatives, Friends And Associates
