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The first comprehensive Charles Ives discography, compiled by Richard Warren, was published in 1972. In the decades following, Warren, along with staff of the Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings, continued documenting newly released recordings of Ives’ music. With support from the Charles Ives Society, Kevin Sherwin completed compiling the discography to include recordings until 2019, and Nicholas Brewer edited and facilitated its online publication and search functions.

This online discography is a comprehensive and searchable list, presented in order of the table of contents listed below. For each composition, recordings are listed in chronological order. The table of contents is based on the structure of James Sinclair’s A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives, which reflects the current catalogue of recordings of Charles Ives’ music. For more detailed explanations of the discography’s compilation and use of this website, please see the above links to the Preface and Usage Guide.

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III. Keyboard Music

ii. Other music for piano

TRANSCRIPTIONS FROM EMERSON (III-B-17) see also SONATA, PIANO, NO. 2
Recording Date/Location	Performing Artists	Record Label, Release Number, Format, Release Year	Album Names	Additional Recording Notes
June 12, 1933, London, England, UK.	Charles Edward Ives, piano	Columbia Gramophone Co. number unlisted, 78 RPM, CRI CD-810, CD (1999).	Ives Plays Ives: The Composer at the Piano in Four Recording Sessions, 1933-1943	(Improvision on a passage common to Study No. 23, Four Transcriptions from "Emerson" No. 2, and Emerson's Cadenza #4- with false start)
June 12, 1933, London, England, UK.	Charles Edward Ives, piano	Columbia Gramophone Co. number unlisted, 78 RPM, CRI CD-810, CD (1999).	Ives Plays Ives: The Composer at the Piano in Four Recording Sessions, 1933-1943	(Improvision on a passage common to Study No. 23, Four Transcriptions from "Emerson" No. 2, and Emerson's Cadenza #4- with false start)
May 11, 1938, Melotone Recording Co., New York City, NY.	Charles Edward Ives, piano	Disc I Side [1]. CRI CD-810, CD (1999).	Ives Plays Ives: The Composer at the Piano in Four Recording Sessions, 1933-1943	(No. 3, Improvision in m. 1, mm. 1-4a [extended], and 7-20 [1 beat] (in mm. 16-17 is an arpeggio found in Copy C)
May 11, 1938, Melotone Recording Co., New York City, NY.	Charles Edward Ives, piano	Disc I Side [1]. CRI CD-810, CD (1999).	Ives Plays Ives: The Composer at the Piano in Four Recording Sessions, 1933-1943	(No. 3, Improvision in m. 1, mm. 1-4a [extended], and 7-20 [1 beat] (in mm. 16-17 is an arpeggio found in Copy C)
May 11, 1938, Melotone Recording Co., New York City, NY.	Charles Edward Ives, piano	Disc II Side 4. CRI CD-810, CD (1999).	Ives Plays Ives: The Composer at the Piano in Four Recording Sessions, 1933-1943	(No. 1, Improvised introduction (from Study No. 23?), mm. 16-19, 24-26, Cadenza #2 (complete and extended with improvision), and 27-33
May 11, 1938, Melotone Recording Co., New York City, NY.	Charles Edward Ives, piano	Disc II Side 4. CRI CD-810, CD (1999).	Ives Plays Ives: The Composer at the Piano in Four Recording Sessions, 1933-1943	(No. 1, Improvised introduction (from Study No. 23?), mm. 16-19, 24-26, Cadenza #2 (complete and extended with improvision), and 27-33
April 24, 1943, New York City, NY.	Charles Edward Ives, piano			Recorded by Mary Howard, (a portion of the Fugato from iii., only)
April 24, 1943, New York City, NY.	Charles Edward Ives, piano			Recorded by Mary Howard, (a portion of the Fugato from iii., only)
April 24, 1943, Mary Howard Studio, New York City, NY.	Charles Edward Ives, piano	Disc [B] Side [2]. CRI CD-810, CD (1999).	Ives Plays Ives: The Composer at the Piano in Four Recording Sessions, 1933-1943	(No. 3, Improvisation on the opening, mm. 1-10 (m. 4a is extended; ends with "Oh no, I can't")
April 24, 1943, Mary Howard Studio, New York City, NY.	Charles Edward Ives, piano	Disc [B] Side [2]. CRI CD-810, CD (1999).	Ives Plays Ives: The Composer at the Piano in Four Recording Sessions, 1933-1943	(No. 3, Improvisation on the opening, mm. 1-10 (m. 4a is extended; ends with "Oh no, I can't")
ca. 1976	Nina Deutsch, piano	Voxbox CDX-5089, CD (1993).	Ives: Solo Piano Music
ca. 1976	Nina Deutsch, piano	Voxbox CDX-5089, CD (1993).	Ives: Solo Piano Music
July 31, 1989, Earl V. Moore Recital Hall at the University of Michigan School of Music, Ann Arbor, MI.	Donna Coleman, piano	Etcetera KTC-1079, CD (1989).	Charles Ives: Concord Sonata: Three-Page Sonata: Four Transcriptions from Emerson
July 31, 1989, Earl V. Moore Recital Hall at the University of Michigan School of Music, Ann Arbor, MI.	Donna Coleman, piano	Etcetera KTC-1079, CD (1989).	Charles Ives: Concord Sonata: Three-Page Sonata: Four Transcriptions from Emerson
September 25, 2002, RTE Concert Hall, Dublin, Eire.	Alan Feinberg, piano; National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, James Sinclair.	Naxos 8.559175, CD (2003).	Charles Ives: Emerson Concerto - Symphony No. 1
September 25, 2002, RTE Concert Hall, Dublin, Eire.	Alan Feinberg, piano; National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, James Sinclair.	Naxos 8.559175, CD (2003).	Charles Ives: Emerson Concerto - Symphony No. 1
January 30-31, 2002, Toronto Center. for the Arts, Toronto, Canada.	Steven Mayer, piano	Naxos 8.559221, CD (2004).	Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2 - The Celestial Railroad
January 30-31, 2002, Toronto Center. for the Arts, Toronto, Canada.	Steven Mayer, piano	Naxos 8.559221, CD (2004).	Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2 - The Celestial Railroad
April 2-4, 2007, Kammermusiksaal, Köln, Germany.	Heather O'Donnell, piano	Mode 211, CD (2009).	Responses to Ives
April 2-4, 2007, Kammermusiksaal, Köln, Germany.	Heather O'Donnell, piano	Mode 211, CD (2009).	Responses to Ives

TRANSCRIPTIONS FROM EMERSON (III-B-17)
Performing Artists	Record Label, Release Number, Format, Release Year
Charles Ives, piano	Yale Charles Ives Non-Commercial Sound Recordings 39002128475069, 78rpm.
Charles Ives, piano	Yale Charles Ives Non-Commercial Sound Recordings 39002128475069, 78rpm.

WALTZRONDO (III-B-18) (125) Text by Walt Whitman
Recording Date/Location	Performing Artists	Record Label, Release Number, Format, Release Year	Album Names
August 1967- January 1968, Rutgers Presbyterian Church, NYC, by Madison Sound Studios	Alan Mandel, piano	Desto DST6460 in set DST6458DST6461, stereo 33.3 RPM (1968). Vox Box CD3X-3034, CD (1995).	Complete Works for Piano. Works for Piano.