Composer: William Batchelder Bradbury, Charles Ives, Simon Butler Marsh, Lowell Mason, Joseph Philbrick Webster
Performer: Peter Dugan, San Francisco Symphony Chorus
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: SFS Media
Catalogue: 2193600762
Release: 2019
Size: 2.51 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Glaser: O for a Thousand Tongues
02. Converse: What a Friend
03. Mason: There is a Fountain
04. trad.: Happy Land
05. Bradbury: Just As I Am
Ives: Symphony No. 3, “The Camp Meeting”
06. I. Old Folks Gatherin’ (Andante maestoso)
07. II. Children’s Day (Allegro)
08. III. Communion (Largo)
09. Webster: Sweet By and By
10. Sweney: Beulah Land
11. Zeuner: Ye Christian Heralds
12. Marsh: Jesus, Lover of My Soul
13. Mason: From Greenland’s Icy Mountains
14. Mason: Nearer, My God, to Thee
Ives: Symphony No. 4
15. I. Prelude (Maestoso)
16. II. Comedy (Allegretto)
17. III. Fugue (Andante moderato)
18. IV. Finale (Largo maestoso)
Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony add an evocative recording of Ives’s songful Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 to the SFS Media label’s Grammy award-winning discography. With nineteenth-century Americana spirit, MTT and the SF Symphony, pianist Peter Dugan, and the SFS Chorus’s musical candor and clarity make for a “gloriously gut-punching” (San Francisco Chronicle) live-concert recording—available now on studio master-quality SACD, digital download, and streaming.