Charles Ives
24 Songs (LP)
LabelOvertoneGenreContemporary Composition
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condition (record/cover): NM / VG+
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Charles Ives's songs - he wrote over a hundred across his lifetime - are among the most personal and formally radical things he produced, and among the least known. The American art song tradition, such as it existed, offered him almost nothing; he developed instead an approach to voice and piano that absorbed ragtime, hymn, popular song, vernacular speech rhythm, and polytonal harmony into a form that has no real precedent. The Overtone pressing documents twenty-four of them - a cross-section of a body of work that ranges from the simple and affecting to the formally extraordinary. Ives self-published a collection of 114 songs in 1922 and distributed them freely; that most of them remained unperformed for decades is one of the more dispiriting facts in the history of American music.
Release notes
Recorded August, 1954 Includes postface to the book, 114 Songs, which is reproduced in facsimile and inserted in the jacket with the record.
| A1 | Abide With Me - Walking | ||
| A2 | Where The Eagle - Disclosure - The White Gulls | ||
| A3 | Two Little Flowers - The Greatest Man - The Children's Hour - Berceuse | ||
| A4 | Ann Street - General William Booth Enters Into Heaven | ||
| B1 | Autumn - The Swimmers - Evening | ||
| B2 | Harpalus - Tarrant Moss | ||
| B3 | Serenity - At The River | ||
| B4 | The See'r - Maples Leaves | ||
| B5 | Tom Sails Away - He Is There! - In Flanders Fields |
- John Kirkpatrick
- Piano
- Helen Boatwright
- Soprano Vocals
