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This album contains world premiere recordings of Charles Ives’s complete Sets for Chamber Orchestra and Set for Theatre Orchestra. Though Charles Ives wrote large-scale works, he also thrived on miniatures. Ives’ Sets for Chamber Orchestra are largely based on his songs and display a panoply of style and technique that proves to be among the most colorful and creative of his entire compositional life. The Sets are rife with allusions and borrowings, notably hymn tunes, and reuse several pieces in slightly altered treatments. Set 9 includes The Unanswered Question in its original form. Ives was willing to embrace substitution of instruments, and this recording contains premiere recordings of new realizations and editions.
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“…The music has what we all recognize as the true Ives character: the riotous colors, the wild imagination and free-spirited feistiness that made him the prototypical American composer. At other times, it is thoughtful, mysterious, or tender. There’s no point in analyzing each of these 39 tracks, or even commenting on any. This is the most wonderful Ives recording to appear in ages. Go out and buy it.”
James H North - Fanfare – November/December 2023
“…Playful, poignant, sinister and disorientating, works such as Calcium Light Night and The Other Side of Pioneering (or Side Lights on American Enterprise) spring fresh surprises, their combination of traditionalism and futurism at once baffling and beguiling.” ****
The Sunday Times – 3 September 2023
Performance ***** Recording *****
“… This invaluable recording from pre-eminent Ives expert and conductor james Sinclair with Orchestra New England brings together for the first time , the composer’s complete chamber sets, including premieres of several new editions and realisations by Sinclair. Performed with exuberance…”
Step Power – BBC Music magazine – September 2023
"...This is a valuable and indeed important addition to Naxos’ extensive catalogue of the music of Charles Ives and is likely to function as the reference set for these works for the foreseeable future…"
Nick Barnard – Musicwebinternational.com – 15 August 2023
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Norbert Tischer – Pizzicato.com.lu – 10 June 2023
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