Sebastian Gottschick's adaptations of Ives' songs and short instrumental pieces pay homage to the composer and develop his work further, as conducted by Gottschick with the ensemble fur neue musik zurich.
Label: Hat [now] ART Catalog ID: Hat[now]ART183 Squidco Product Code: 17165
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2012 Country: Switzerland Packaging: Cardstock gatefold foldover Recorded on Juje 8th-10th, 2010 at hr-Sendesaal Frankfurt am Main by Christoph Classen.
7. Intermezzo: Scherzo: All the Way Around And Back 1:13
8. The See'r 1:02
9. Grantchester 4:12
10. The Housatonic At Stockbridge 3:32
11. Intermezzo: No. 96 3:42
12. The New River 1:02
13. Walking 2:31
14. Watchman! 1:56
15. At the River 2:31
16. General W. Booth Enters Into Heaven 5:18
17. Serenity 2:43
18. Intermezzo: Gyp The Blood 1:27
19. Weil' auf mir 1:38
20. Like A Sick Eagle 1:44
21. A Farewell To Land 1:17
22. Intermezzo: In the Night 2:41
23. The Incantation 1:40
24. Evening 1:25
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"Sebastian Gottschick's adaptations of Ives' songs and short instrumental pieces in this sense not only pay homage to the composer but develop his work further. The multifaceted ensemble and the instrumentation Gottschick chose allow him to be highly differentiated in his approach to the specific Ives sound that oscillates between crude realism and symbolist fragmentation: he either deliberately avoids this sound (for instance by using a vibraphone in Grantchester) or he pushes it to the point of prismatic refraction. Apart from this, Gottschick's selection proceeds in a continuous, multi-perspective order that can be interpreted as a drama en miniature, a model of an ordinary day from the snatches of dreams in the morning to the falling night, and finally also as the epitome of the diversity of life itself. Behind all that the power and intangible nature of memories, Ives' lifelong theme, becomes visible and audible."-Wolfgang Rathert