I speak about Charles Ives with the great Ives connoisseur Thomas Brodhead, whom I got to know when we worked on Ives’ Fourth Symphony with the Concertgebouw Orchestra back in 2012. Ives is such a fascinating composer and has been a constant inspiration in my life as a musician. At the moment, I’m preparing his piece Three Places in New England, which I get to conduct for the first time.

Links to the pieces:

Charles Ives: Country Band March

President's Own United States Marine Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avowzDI8uR0

Charles Ives (orch. T. Grahl, 2021): Walt Whitman - (1921) from 114 Songs Klangforum Wien, Thomas Hampson, Bas Wiegers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqnO8dJJPYs

Charles Ives: Fourth Symphony

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Peter Eötvös, Bas Wiegers, Ralph van Raat

Private recording

Charles Ives: March No. 6 for Piano, with Here's to Good Old Yale

Charles Ives, piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMW0r_ZxFm8&list=OLAK5uy_lE6Eb6U39_HOe_juxz9dJukRFRewUz3xs&index=41

Charles Ives: Three Places In New England - 1. The "St. Gaudens" In Boston Common

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhbutHpwEh8

Charles Ives: They Are There!, second take

Charles Ives, piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az0iNeRvNts&list=OLAK5uy_lE6Eb6U39_HOe_juxz9dJukRFRewUz3xs&index=39

Charles Ives: Four Transcriptions from Emerson: No. 1 (beg.)

Charles Ives, piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c8lNFR5xWw&list=OLAK5uy_lE6Eb6U39_HOe_juxz9dJukRFRewUz3xs&index=1

Charles Ives: Three Places In New England - 2. Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Ytm0l0FTU

Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question

Ricciotti Ensemble, Leonard van Goudoever

Private Recording