This has to be the most bizarre album cover for a classical recording I’ve even seen.
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Anthony de Mare / "Wizards and Wildmen" (CRI 837) This recording includes piano works by Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison. It also includes the following works by Charles Ives:
"The Alcotts" movement (complete) from Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord"
Three Improvisations
Study No. 22
The Celestial Railroad
Anthony de Mare's recording contain's four works by Charles Ives, and they are all very fine performances. But what makes this disc most compelling is the chance to hear Ives' works along with the piano music of two of his closest musical friends and advocates, Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison. As such, this disc provides an excellent background andcontext for Ives' piano works. The recorded sound is excellent, and the liner notes by Bob Gilmore are particularly effective at explaining the relationships between these men and their works.
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