Ives: Songs
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Track Listing
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140:51
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News & Reviews
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Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish Share Story Behind New Album, 'Narrow Sea'
Composer Caroline Shaw's new album, Narrow Sea, featuring Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish's performance of the title piece—five parts, each a new setting of a text from The Sacred Harp, the 19th-century collection of shape-note hymns—is due next Friday, January 22, on Nonesuch. Here, the artists talk with writer Matthew Guerrieri about the album, which also includes Sō Percussion's performance of Shaw's Taxidermy. Find out why she tells Guerrieri: "I was telling a friend, half-jokingly, that, in a lot of my music, I’m trying to figure out a way to talk about death and mortality, or think about it."
Nonesuch Records releases its second album from Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Caroline Shaw, Narrow Sea, on January 22, 2021. The title piece was written for Sō Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish, who perform it on this recording: five parts, each a new setting of a text from The Sacred Harp nineteenth century collection of shape-note hymns. Also on the album is Sō Percussion's performance of Shaw's Taxidermy, which she wrote for the ensemble. A video for Part 2 of Narrow Sea can be seen here.
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About This Album
Charles Ives wrote about 180 songs from 1887 to 1918, still only a small fraction of his prodigious output. These songs draw upon a diversity of inspirations, reflecting Ives’s wide interests and his fascination with ambiguity and paradox. This album, a New York Times favorite, features notable selections from this expansive catalog.
Credits
MUSICIANS
Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano
Gilbert Kalish, pianoPRODUCTION CREDITS
Engineering and musical supervision: Marc J. Aubort, Joanna Nickrenz (Elite Recordings, Inc.)
Mastering: Robert C. Ludwig
Cover art: Kevin Brooks
Design and art direction: Paula Bisacca
Coordinator: Teresa Sterne
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Charles Ives wrote about 180 songs from 1887 to 1918, still only a small fraction of his prodigious output. These songs draw upon a diversity of inspirations, reflecting Ives’s wide interests and his fascination with ambiguity and paradox. This album, a New York Times favorite, features notable selections from this expansive catalog.
Charles Ives wrote about 180 songs from 1887 to 1918, still only a small fraction of his prodigious output. These songs draw upon a diversity of inspirations, reflecting Ives’s wide interests and his fascination with ambiguity and paradox. This album, a New York Times favorite, features notable selections from this expansive catalog.
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Engineering and musical supervision: Marc J. Aubort, Joanna Nickrenz (Elite Recordings, Inc.)
Mastering: Robert C. Ludwig
Cover art: Kevin Brooks
Design and art direction: Paula Bisacca
Coordinator: Teresa Sterne

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MUSICIANS
Jan DeGaetani, mezzo-soprano
Gilbert Kalish, piano