Ives/ Baty/ Berman/ Gardner/ Plenk/ Trudel - Songs 2This second volume of the series features 26 Ives's songs beginning alphabetically with "December" (1913) and concluding with "Grass" (1896). The performers include 14 singers, four pianists, and an organist. The organ appears on chronologically the earliest song on this CD, the hymn like "Far From My Heav'nly Home" (1893). Ives's early and late, traditional and revolutionary are each represented. The highlight of this CD is Ives's 1914 setting of

Carol Sloane-voc

Caccini exhorts the performers to honour the primacy of speech and speech rhythm

His song "Sweet Black Angel Blues" became a blues standard when B

"Coming Home"

Austria as a Fulbright-Hays Scholar and has received numerous honors including winning the Philadelphia Orchestra Young Artist Competition on two occasions

where every facet of the music is explored

Malin Ernestad and Alex Prowse

Hailing from Paris

with live recordings taking place over 4 years across studios in Seattle

In the same period that Tchaikovsky was writing his elegies

Cliche' we know

this CD compiles all 18 tracks from the two versions and adds an additional seven cuts from the Crown vaults for a total of 25 blasts of early Rock/Blues/R&B