Charles Ives <br> Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano <BR> BRIDGE 9024A/BClassic CD: Highest Rating Charles Ives, the father of modern American music, included hymn tunes, ragtime, and other popular themes in these heroic and heartbreaking compositions. These magnificent performances of essential Ives repertoire stand out for their instrumental virtuosity and deep understanding of Ives's idiom. Acclaimed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, Fulkerson and Shannon's Ives readings have been called the benchmark recording

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Her works have been widely performed in Britain

“Everything is exactly defined

seamlessly incorporating Irish folk tunes into its late-Romantic world

Clarinet Quintet

and quickly thrust the maestro into the limelight of pop culture

and also (like the physical specimen of the composer himself in 1924) taut

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Crumb’s work

Fulkerson and Shannon's Ives readings have been called the benchmark recording of these works

"Fairytale" for large orchestra