℗ 2015 Chandos Records
Released | March 1, 2015 |
Duration | 1h 17m 19s |
Record Label | Chandos |
Catalogue No. | CHAN5152W |
Genre | Classical |
Ives: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
Andrew Davis, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
Symphony No. 1
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1.1
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I. Allegro
Charles Ives; Andrew Davis; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Sir Andrew Davis |
13:15 | |||
1.2
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II. Adagio molto
Charles Ives; Andrew Davis; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Sir Andrew Davis |
7:43 | |||
1.3
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III. Scherzo. Vivace
Charles Ives; Andrew Davis; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Sir Andrew Davis |
5:04 | |||
1.4
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IV. Allegro molto
Charles Ives; Andrew Davis; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Sir Andrew Davis |
14:05 | |||
Symphony No. 2
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1.5
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I. Andante moderato
Charles Ives; Andrew Davis; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Sir Andrew Davis |
5:23 | |||
1.6
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II. Allegro
Charles Ives; Andrew Davis; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Sir Andrew Davis |
11:24 | |||
1.7
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III. Adago cantabile
Charles Ives; Andrew Davis; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Sir Andrew Davis |
8:07 | |||
1.8
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IV. Lento maestoso
Charles Ives; Andrew Davis; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Sir Andrew Davis |
2:15 | |||
1.9
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V. Allegro molto vivace
Charles Ives; Andrew Davis; Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Sir Andrew Davis |
10:03 | |||
Digital Booklet
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"The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra are clearly relishing their collaboration with Chief Conductor Sir Andrew Davis judging from the playing in both works. Phrasing and tempi are excellent and technically they are up there with overseas orchestras. Production from Chandos is exemplary. An enjoyable early glimpse of a misunderstood composer. "
- LimelightMagazine.com
“… Andrew Davis leads excellent performances from the Melbourne Symphony… Committed, precise playing and top-drawer audio complete this very attractive package.” *****
- Classical Ear App
“…The Melbourne performers rate highly and anyone wanting the first two symphonies together encapsulating early Ives can hardly do better, decently recorded too.”
- Gramophone magazine
This is the first volume of a new series dedicated to the music of Charles Ives, performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and its principal conductor, Sir Andrew Davis. An amateur genius of avant-garde composing, who experimented with groundbreaking techniques years ahead of their time, the American composer started out with more conventional works – as shown by the two early symphonies recorded here.
Part of the score of the First Symphony was submitted as Ives’s graduation project at Yale University in 1898 but its unconventional structure did not match the taste of his professor, Horatio Parker. Looking back at it, Ives felt that Parker had coerced him into writing a pastiche-based work in order to help him achieve his degree. Although the most conservative of Ives’s symphonies, it was first performed only in 1953, after the premiere of the Third, in 1946, and the Second, in 1951.
The premiere of the Second Symphony was given by the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein on Washington’s birthday, and this momentous event in the overdue discovery of Ives’s music matched the nationalistic nature of the piece itself, described by the New York Times at the time as ‘rudely, tenderly, fantastically and cantankerously Yankee’.
Exclusive to Chandos, Sir Andrew Davis is the conductor in many of our best-selling recordings – among them, Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius (CHSA 5140(2)) and Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, with Tasmin Little (CHAN 10796) – and has already recorded two highly praised albums with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Chandos Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -6.35 -13.34 to -0.08 | -29.98 -34.03 to -25.46 | -25.91 -30.90 to -21.60 | 14 11 to 18 | |
1 | I. Allegro | -2.89 | -27.68 | -23.0 | 14 |
2 | II. Adagio molto | -5.06 | -30.80 | -24.9 | 14 |
3 | III. Scherzo. Vivace | -13.34 | -34.03 | -30.9 | 13 |
4 | IV. Allegro molto | -0.38 | -25.46 | -21.6 | 16 |
5 | I. Andante moderato | -12.58 | -33.65 | -29.8 | 12 |
6 | II. Allegro | -4.55 | -28.86 | -25.1 | 15 |
7 | III. Adago cantabile | -8.34 | -33.41 | -29.0 | 14 |
8 | IV. Lento maestoso | -9.88 | -29.20 | -26.4 | 11 |
9 | V. Allegro molto vivace | -0.08 | -26.71 | -22.5 | 18 |