Charles Ives: Complete Symphonies

Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel & Marta Gardolinska (chorus conductor)

Charles Ives was een echte Amerikaanse componist die zijn tijd ver vooruit was en nieuwe combinaties creëerde van de traditionele klassieke - en de Amerikaanse volksmuziek. Deze complete opname van zijn vier symfonieën door het Los Angeles Philharmonic onder Gustavo Dudamel wordt nu al beschouwd als een "glorieuze prestatie" (Guardian) en is momenteel genomineerd voor niet minder dan drie Grammy Awards, waaronder "beste orkestrale uitvoering".

Ives, C:
 Symphony No. 1 
 Symphony No. 2
 Symphony No. 3 'The Camp Meeting'
 Symphony No. 4 

"The evolution of American music is chronicled right here in this quartet of symphonies. And when heard – as I did here – in a single sitting, it’s as if Ives is transitioning from the Old World to the New before our very ears...Dudamel – who clearly knows where Ives is coming from – embraces this ‘new normal’ [in No. 3] with much affection...Their panache is decidedly not central European."
Gramophone Magazine - October 2020

"There are two chief reasons for Dudamel’s success as an Ives conductor with the LA Phil. One is their joint command of complex detail, conveyed in textures that seem to illuminate every thread in the music’s crazy patchwork (craziest of all in the overwhelming Fourth). The other is boundless enthusiasm and affection for whatever Ives puts forth."
BBC Music Magazine - December 2020 *****(Performance) / ****(Recording)