Чарлз Едуард Айвс е американски музикален композитор от 20-ти век, чийто новаторски подход към музиката предвещава развитието на модерната класическа музика. Творчеството му се характеризира с използването на политоналност, сложни ритми и цитати от американски народни песни и химни.
Бокс изданието Charles Ives The Anniversary Edition на пет компактдиска представя обширен преглед на творчеството на Айвс. Включва оркестрови произведения (прочутата композиция The Unanswered Question, The Fourth of July), кантатата The Celestial Country, сборници с песни, включително и на немски, военни маршове и вокален цикъл. Четвъртият диск съдържа уникални автентични записи – композиторът свири на пиано собствени композиции, включително пасажи от известната Втора соната „Конкорд“. Петият диск представя спомени на роднини, приятели и сътрудници за композитора.
Композиции
1The Fourth Of July
2Hymn (Largo Cantaile) From "Set For String Quartet, Bass And Piano"
3The Pond
4General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
5Variations On "America"
6In Flanders Fields
7The Circus Band
8The Unanswered Question
CD2:
The Celestial Country
1No. 1 Prelude, Trio And Chorus
2No. 2 Aria For Baritone
3No. 3 Quartet, Accompanied
4No. 4 Intermezzo For String Quartet
5No. 5 Double Quartet, A Capella
6No. 6 Aria For Tenor
7No. 7 Chorale And Finale
4 Songs For Chorus And Orchestra
8Majority (Or The Masses)
9They Are There! (A War Song March)
10An Election (It Strikes Me That)
11Lincoln, The Great Commoner
CD3: The Things Our Fathers Loved
Earlier Songs
1Slow March
2Canon [I]: Not Only In My Lady’s Eyes
3There Is A Certain Garden
4On Judge's Walk
5No More
Mundane Songs
6The New River
7The Side Show
8West London
9Luck And Work
Later Songs
10The One Way
11Peaks
12Yellow Leaves
13A Sea Dirge
German Songs
14Widmung
15Feldeinsamkeit
Visionary Songs
16Resolution
17Pictures
18Mists
19Incantation
20September
21The Sea Of Sleep
22Requiem
23The Things Our Fathers Loved
24Old Home Day
25Down East
CD 4: Ives Plays Ives
From The Second Piano Sonata, "Concord, Mass. 1840-1860"
1Emerson (End Of Exposition)
2Emerson (Most Of Recapitulation)
3Hawthorne (Fragment)
4The Alcotts (Complete)
5Emerson Transcription No. 1 With Interpolated Improvisations
6Emerson Transcription No. 3 With Interpolated Improvisations
7Improvisation On Themes From Second Symphony (Third Movement)
8March No. 6 In G And D
9Improvisation X
10Improvisation Y
11Improvisation Z
12Study No. 9 ("The Anti-Abolitionist Riots")
13(Study No. 11)
14Fragment And Ragtime From Study No. 20 Quoting "Alexander"
15From (Study No. 23)
16From (Study No. 23) - Passage In Gospel Style Leading Into "Hello, Ma Baby"
17They Are There
CD5: Charles Ives Remembered
1-56 Reminiscences Of The Composer By Relatives, Friends And Associates
