Charles Ives - UNIVERSE SYMPHONY

Performers:

David Fedele, flute

Gerard Reuter, oboe

Michiyo Suzuki, clarinet

David Fedele, flute Gerard Reuter, oboe Michiyo Suzuki, clarinet

Tom Chiu, violin

Anastasia Solberg, viola

David Eggar, cello

Mat Fieldes, double bass

John Charles Thomas, trumpet

Greg Evans, French horn

Julie Josephson, trombone

David Grego, tuba

Nina Kellman, harp

Jon Cater, just intonation machine

Tom Goldstein, percussion

Don Conreaux, gong

Skip La Plante, low bell

Form:

Earth Fragment

Prelude #1: Pulse Of The Cosmos

Section A: Wide Valleys And Clouds

Prelude #2: Birth Of The Oceans

Section B: Earth and the Firmament

Prelude #3: And Lo, Now It Is Night

Section C: Earth Is Of The Heavens

This recording is in extended Pythagorean tuning. 120 tracks were used. All the music is Ives. No new notes or instruments were added. All of the directions given by Ives were obeyed to the letter. Nothing is missing from this piece. A once thought missing 4 measures by the composer was discovered to be substituted by a plug called Heaven and Earth on the last page of the sketches, at the very top, for piano. Other parts elided into and out of the plug.

It is in extended Pythagorean tuning, but there are written quartertones throughout. Also some eighthtones, just intonation.