Improvisations & performances of excerpts & whole works. Includes fragmentary bits, false starts & some spoken comments.
Compact disc.
Some tracks previously issued in 1974 in analog disc set Columbia M4 32504 ("Charles Ives : The 100th Anniversary").
Program notes by James B. Sinclair, Vivian Perlis, Richard Warren, Jr. & David Gray Porter, with discographical details (27 p.) inserted in container.
Recorded at Columbia Graphophone Co., London, June 12, 1933 (tracks 1-4); probably in New York City, mid-1930's (tracks 5-14); at Melotone Recording Co., New York City, May 11, 1938 (tracks 15-31); and at Mary Howard Studio, New York City, Apr. 24, 1943 (tracks 32-42).
Four transcriptions from Emerson. No. 1 (beg.) (3:58) ; No. 1 (end) (1:28) ; No. 3 (2:33) -- Improvisation on a passage in Study no. 23, Four transcriptions from Emerson, no. 2, and Emerson overture's cadenza no. 4 (:44) -- Four transcriptions from Emerson. No. 1 (beg.) (2:14) ; No. 1 (end) (2:24) -- Study no. 11 (abandoned) (:50) -- Study no. 11 (1:34 ; 1:33) -- Patch for Study no. 23 (:40) -- Four transcriptions from Emerson. No. 1 (beg.) (2:57) ; No. 1 (end) (2:53) ; No. 3 (3:33) ; No. 3 (3:40) -- Four transcriptions from Emerson. No. 3. (beg.) (1:53) ; (end) (:47) -- Study no. 11 (1:02) -- Study no. 9 : The anti-abolitionist riots (2:04) -- Study no. 2, with false start (1:31) ; (beg.) (:49) ; (end) (1:15) -- Study no. 23 (partial) (1:00) -- Four transcriptions from Emerson. No. 1 (abandoned) (:17) ; (middle) (1:04) -- Study no. 23 (partial) (1:10) -- Three improvisations. No. 1 (:50) -- Sonata no. 2 for piano : Concord, Mass. Hawthorne (excerpt) (:17) -- Symphony no. 1. Rejected mvt. 2 : Largo (1:58) -- Unidentified (improvisation on the Sunrise cadenza?) (:21) -- Study no. 20 (partial) (:32) -- Three improvisations. No. 3 (:42) -- Sonata no. 2 for piano. Emerson (partial) (2:05) ; (partial) (1:23) ; (partial) (4:02) -- Study no. 2 + Study no. 23 (mixed) (2:24) -- Four transcriptions from Emerson. No. 3 (abandoned) (:57) -- Study no. 9 (2:15) -- They are there! First take (abandoned) (1:59) ; Second take (3:30) ; Third take (2:44) -- March no. 6 for piano, with Here's to Good old Yale (2:09) -- Sonata no. 2 for piano. The Alcotts (5:02)