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IVES: Sets for Small Orchestra; Songs [] "WHEN THE MOON" Narucki; Sylvan; Feinberg, piano; Music Projects, Bernas. English texts. Decca 289 466 841-2
This collection is a terrific idea -- it highlights the relationship between a number of Ives songs and the short instrumental pieces, collected as "Sets for Small Orchestra," that share musical material with them. As David Nicholls explains in his helpful notes, sometimes the orchestral pieces were derived from pre-existing songs, sometimes vice-versa. Although the "Sets" are presented separately from the songs in order to preserve the ordering Ives intended, it is illuminating (if perhaps a bit laborious) to program your CD player to pair off the vocal and instrumental versions of each piece and hear them back-to-back. Some of the pairings are quite similar to each other; in other cases, considerable changes were made in the adaptation process. Even when the musical content of the two versions ...