This album was recorded in February 2007, with Julian Millard as Recording Engineer and Mark Brown as Recording Producer.
Compositional Technique
Many of Ives's songs began as 'songs without words'—purely instrumental pieces for chamber ensemble, with one instrument taking the 'voice' part.
Album & Artwork
The front illustration for the album is 'Early Spring Afternoon, Central Park' (1911) by Willard Leroy Metcalf, from the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
Compositional Technique
The range of style in Ives's text-setting is startling, from simple sentimental ballads to complex philosophical discourses with dissonant piano parts or minimalist accompaniment.
Composer Biography
Charles Ives wrote around 200 songs throughout his creative life, far more than the famous collection of 114 Songs he privately published in 1922.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Ives noted that singers made such a fuss about intervals and time that when his instrumental pieces were later arranged for voice and piano, they were often weakened or simplified.
Composition History
Ives frequently composed a song to one text and then, years later, adapted it to a completely different one.
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