Charles Ives wrote almost two hundred songs. Although his reputation rests on orchestral, chamber and piano music, it is Ives's songs that represent the heart of his creative thinking. The expressive variety encountered is accordingly vast: indeed, the gradual evolution of Ives's songwriting is analogous to the wider evolution of American music during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This new edition includes all the songs that Ives completed. The alphabetic approach ensures that each volume (of which this disc is the fourth of six) contains a representative cross-section.

Tracklist:

Majority
Maple Leaves
Marie
Marie, "Marie, I See Thee, Fairest One, As In A Garden Fair"
Very Pleasant
Rather Sad
Minnelied
Mirage
Mists I
My Dear Old Mother (Du Alte Mutter)(2nd Setting)
My Lou Jennine
My Native Land I (1st Version)
My Native Land I (2nd Version)
My Native Land II
Nature's Way
Naught That Country Needeth
The New River
Night Of Frost In May
A Night Song
A Night Thought
No More
Nov. 2, 1920, "An Election"
An Old Flame
Old Home Day
The Old Mother (Du Alte Mutter)(1st Setting)
Omens And Oracles
On Judges' Walk
On The Antipodes
On The Counter
The One Way
The Only Son
Over All The Treetops, "Ilmenau"

UPC: 636943927229
Label: Naxos American
Release Date: 9.30.08
Format: CD

Ives / Berman / Carfizzi / Garritson / Penna - Complete Songs 4 (CD)