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Ives: Symphony No. 2; Robert Browning Overture Nashville Symphony Orchestra/Kenneth Schermerhorn (Naxos 8.559076).


Ives: Symphony No. 2; Robert Browning Noun 1. Robert Brown - Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
Brown
 Overture overture, instrumental musical composition written as an introduction to an opera, ballet, oratorio, musical, or play. The earliest Italian opera overtures were simply pieces of orchestral music and were called sinfonie.  Nashville Symphony Orchestra/Kenneth Schermerhorn (Naxos 8.559076)

Most of Ives's orchestral music sounds like a great big sloppy mess, but it can be fun to wallow wallow

mud bath frequented by pigs, elephants, red deer, hippopotami as a cooling aid.
 in from time to time. It is nice to have this music available at a budget price, and both performance and recording quality are truly excellent. Whether you are a long-time Ives fan or rather a music fan curious about this iconoclastic i·con·o·clast  
n.
1. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions.

2. One who destroys sacred religious images.
 composer, this CD represents an excellent bargain. --KWN
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Title Annotation:Review
Author:Nehring, Karl W.
Publication:Sensible Sound
Article Type:Sound Recording Review
Date:Apr 1, 2001
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