Charles Ives: Chromaticmelodtune (1913/1919)

Charles Ives (1874-1954): Chromaticmelodtune, for brass and percussion (1913/1919).
American Brass Quintet:
Gerard Schwarz - trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn
John Eckert - trumpet
Edward Birdwell - french horn
Arnold Fromme - tenor trombone
Robert Biddlecome - bass trombone
with:
Phil Kaplan - field drum
Steve Marcus - bass drum
Claude Fontanella - cymbals
Cover image: painting by Philip Guston.
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[@WocklessGamingforAnimeMoms]

Needlessly brutal for a song from before even WW2 much less any sort of modern recording technology. I love it.

[@CharlesBumcrot]

I'm recording (and performing) this in March 2024 (and not this Schuller version) on Naxos with Orchestra New England, James Sinclair conducting and looking forward to it. Very challenging and very cool piece of music. I'm already studying and putting it together.... and this is 9/23

[@rolandmeyer3729]

Please give us future updates, fellow lover of Chaz Eddie Ives.
P.S. - This piece is totally new to me.

[@MrEthanJason]

I can't but believe MONK and DOLPHY listened to compositions like this one by IVES.

[@johnnynoirman]

Beautiful

[@CroChiMihn]

genius

[@asym52]

It's "Chromâtimelôdtune." Two circumflexes. No "c" in the middle.

[@horaciodelatorre6935]

Mi hija

[@luizmarcondesmusica]

nice. one more time now, this time in tune

[@plekkchand]

It is in tune, fool.

[@charlottewhyte9804]

yak bloody awful

[@TheBlueCream]

beyond you...

[@andrewpetersen5272]

@@TheBlueCream Actually, it's an opinion. And frankly I like most or Ives. This one does nothing for me either. As good as the painting perhaps.

[@timothytikker3834]

@@andrewpetersen5272 it was not a completed work as Ives left it, but some loose sketch material. I've heard two other completions of the work, and each sounds completely different from this. Ives probably had yet something else in mind, if indeed he had a complete concept of the work.

[@marcallen4532]

@@andrewpetersen5272 It's an abstraction.

[@silviemarksilverstein3031]

I absolutely adore this!