Ives / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra / Davis Orchestral Works 2 Super-Audio CD

In this second volume, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and it's chief conductor Sir Andrew Davis play some of the most characteristic pieces of Charles Ives, an insurance salesman by trade and one of the most precociously original of all American composers.

1. I. Washington's Birthday. Very Slowly - Faster and Livelier - Slowly Again - Slightly Faster That First Tempo I - 2. II. Decoration Day. Very Slowly - Poco Pi? Moto - Un Poco Pi? Moto - Poco Animando - Pi? Animando - Pi? Animando - Slower - a Little Faster - 3. III. the Fourth of July. to Julian Myrick. Adagio Molto - Andante (Con Moto) - Allegretto - Pi? Allegretto - Pi? Mosso - Pi? Moto. Quick-Step Time - 4. IV. Thanksgiving and Forefathers' Day. to E.C.T. Adagio Maestoso - Poco Adagio (Pi? Mosso) - Poco Con Spirito - Pi? Moto - a Little Faster - 5. Central Park in the Dark 6. I. the 'ST. Gaudens' in Boston Common. Very Slowly - Pi? Mosso - Pi? Mosso - Pi? Mosso - Meno Mosso - Meno Mosso - Pi? Mosso - Pi? Mosso - 7. II. Putnam's Camp, Redding. Connecticut. Allegro (Quick Step Time) - Gradually Slower - Quasi Largo - Andante Animato - Poco Meno Mosso - Pi? Mosso 8. III. the Housatonic at Stockbridge. Adagio Molto - Meno Mosso - Pi? Mosso E Crescendo - Allegro Moderato - Accelerando - Allegro Con Brio - 9. The Unanswered Question