Song For Anything - Songs By Ives / Finley, Drake
) | Label: Hyperion Catalog: CDA67516 Format: CD Gerald Finley, baritone; Julius Drake, pianoCharles Ives (1874-1954): Feldeinsamkeit 1897 Herman allmers; The Things our Fathers Loved Charles Ives; Memories: (A) Very Pleasant; (B) Rather Sad 1897 Charles Ives; The Housatonic at Stockbridge 1921 Robert Johnson; Swimmers Louis Untermeyer; The Cage 1906 Charles Ives; The Greatest Man 1921 Anne Collins; General William Booth Enters into Heavfen 1914 Vachel Lindsay; Rememberance 1921 Charles Ives; Berceuse 1903 Charles Ives; West London 1921 Matthew Arnold; Topm Sails Away 1917 Charles Ives; When Stars are in the Quiet Skies 1891 Edward Bulwer-Lytton; Weil' auf mir 1902 Nikolaus Lenau; Ich grolle nicht 1898 Heinrich Heine; Du alte Mutter 1900 Aasmund Vinje, tr. Edmund Lobedanz; Where the Eagle 1900 Monica Turnbull; Walking 1902 Charles ives; Yellow Leaves 1923 Henry Bellamann; The Side Show 1921 Charles Ives; Élégie 1901 Louis Gallet; The New River 1921 Charles Ives; Like a Sick Eagle 1920 John Keats; Ann Street 1921 Maurice Morris; Slugging a Vampire 1902 Charles Ives;Thoreau 1915 Henry Thoreau; Serenity 1919 John Whittier; Tolerance c1906 Rudyard Kipling; Charlie Rutlage after 1920 Dominick O'Malley; 1,2,3 1921 Charles Ives; A Song - For Anything 1892 Psalm 51/Charles Ives Charles Ives' work as a pioneering polytonalist is perhaps better remembered today than his song output, but throughout his long composing life his most personal musical expressions are to be found in what may best be called the genre of the 'art song'. These range from traditional 'lieder' (setting such familiar poets as Heinrich Heine and Nikolaus Lenau), through English-language often to texts of Ives' own devising. All show a degree of craftmanship which makes one wonder why many of these songs are not better known.  Price: $19.98 |