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Symphonies Nos 3 (The Camp Meeting) & 4; Orchestral Set No. 4 Jean-efflam Bavouzet (piano); Melbourne Symphony Orchestra/andrew Davis

Chandos CHSA 5174 (hybrid CD/SACD) 71:04 mins

Revisiting the pioneering 1960s recordings of Charles Ives’s music makes you realise the distance travelled in performing this maverick’s unique brand of Americana. No conductor now would paint Orchestral Set No. 2’s opening colours with the uncouth clarity of Morton Gould (1967), or crown