Charles Ives: Complete Sets For Chamber Orchestra

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.

• Ives, C: Set for Theatre Orchestra
• Ives, C: Set No. 1 for Chamber Orchestra
• Ives, C: Set No. 10 for Chamber Orchestra of Three Pieces
• Ives, C: Set No. 2 for Chamber Orchestra
• Ives, C: Set No. 3 for Chamber Orchestra
• Ives, C: Set No. 4 for Chamber Orchestra 'Three Poets and Human Nature'
• Ives, C: Set No. 5 for chamber orchestra 'The Other Side of Pioneering,
• Ives, C: Set No. 6 for chamber orchestra 'From the Side Hill'
• Ives, C: Set No. 7 for chamber orchestra 'Water Colors'
• Ives, C: Set No. 8 for Chamber Orchestra 'Songs without Voices'
• Ives, C: Set No. 9 for Chamber Orchestra of Three Pieces