Charles Ives: Complete Songs vol.6 (Naxos Audio CD)

Lielle Berman
Daniel Trevor Bircher
Patrick Carfizzi
Jennifer Casey Cabot
Michael Cavalieri
Robert Gardner
Amanda Ingram
Sara Jakubiak
Sumi Kittelberger
Ryan MacPherson
Diego Matamoros
Tamara Mumford
Mary Phillips
David Pittsinger
Matthew Plenk
Rebecca Ringle
Kenneth Tarver
Leah Wool
Douglas Dickson
Laura Garritson
J.J. Penna
Eric Trudel


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 contains a representative cross-section. This is the sixth and final volume.

“All of the soloists, who represent all voice-parts are first-rate singers, many quite young with blooming opera careers, each with a clear and compelling competence in how to sing songs. And these aren't just any songs, but some of the most fascinating, engaging, joyful, humorous, nostalgic, sentimental, artfully written songs in the repertoire.” Classics Today on Volume I (8.559269)