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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. Music for chamber or theatre orchestra

SET NO. 7: WATER COLORS; i. AT SEA; ii. SWIMMERS/REMEMBRANCE (16)
Recording Date/Location	Performing Artists	Record Label, Release Number, Format, Release Year	Album Names
March 13 and April 3, 1974	Yale Theater Orchestra; James Sinclair, conductor	Columbia Records, M-32969 (1974).	Old Songs Deranged: Music for Theater Orchestra
March 13 and April 3, 1974	Yale Theater Orchestra; James Sinclair, conductor	Columbia Records, M-32969 (1974).	Old Songs Deranged: Music for Theater Orchestra
November 11, 15, 16, 1993, Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London, England	Music Projects/London; Richard Bernas, conductor	Decca 466 841-2, CD (2000).	Charles Ives: When the Moon - Songs - Sets for Orchestra
November 11, 15, 16, 1993, Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London, England	Music Projects/London; Richard Bernas, conductor	Decca 466 841-2, CD (2000).	Charles Ives: When the Moon - Songs - Sets for Orchestra

SET NO. 9 OF 3 PIECES; i. ANDANTE CON MOTO: THE LAST READER; ii. SCHERZO: THE SEE'R (ALLEGRO); iii. LARGO TO PRESTO: THE UNANSWERED QUESTION (I-C-36) (18)
Recording Date/Location	Performing Artists	Record Label, Release Number, Format, Release Year	Album Names
ca. 1996	Budapest Strings; Bela Banfalvi, concertmaster; Reinhold Friedrich, trumpet	Capriccio C49007, CD (1996).	Die neue Klassik
ca. 1996	Budapest Strings; Bela Banfalvi, concertmaster; Reinhold Friedrich, trumpet	Capriccio C49007, CD (1996).	Die neue Klassik

SET NO.6; i. MISTS; ii.THE RAINBOW; iii. AFTERGLOW; iv. EVENING (15)
Recording Date/Location	Performing Artists	Record Label, Release Number, Format, Release Year	Album Names	Additional Recording Notes
1970	Gunther Schuller, conductor; Unlisted Orchestra	Sony 94731, CD (2005).	Symphony No. 2 ; The Unanswered Question	[ii. only]
1970	Gunther Schuller, conductor; Unlisted Orchestra	Sony 94731, CD (2005).	Symphony No. 2 ; The Unanswered Question	[ii. only]
November 11, 15, 16, 1993, Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London, England	Music Projects/London; Richard Bernas, conductor	Decca 466 841-2, CD (2000).	Charles Ives: When the Moon - Songs - Sets for Orchestra
November 11, 15, 16, 1993, Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London, England	Music Projects/London; Richard Bernas, conductor	Decca 466 841-2, CD (2000).	Charles Ives: When the Moon - Songs - Sets for Orchestra

SET OF THREE PIECES: i. Hallowe'en; ii. THE POND; iii. THE GONG ON THE HOOK AND LADDER (x658)
Additional Recording Notes
Performance grouping, assembled probably in spring 1934.
Performance grouping, assembled probably in spring 1934.

THE GENERAL SLOCUM (I-B-4) (37)
Recording Date/Location	Performing Artists	Record Label, Release Number, Format, Release Year	Album Names
November 8-11, 1983, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA	Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, Gunther Schuller, guest conductor	New England Conservatory NEC-122, 33.3 RPM (1983).	Charles Ives: New England Conservatory, November 8-11, 1983
November 8-11, 1983, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA	Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, Gunther Schuller, guest conductor	New England Conservatory NEC-122, 33.3 RPM (1983).	Charles Ives: New England Conservatory, November 8-11, 1983
January 8-10, 2008, Konsertsalen, Malmö, Sweden.	Malmö Symphony Orchestra; James Sinclair, conductor	Naxos 8.559370, CD (2009).	Charles Ives: Holiday Symphony (excerpts) - The General Slocum - Overture in G Minor
January 8-10, 2008, Konsertsalen, Malmö, Sweden.	Malmö Symphony Orchestra; James Sinclair, conductor	Naxos 8.559370, CD (2009).	Charles Ives: Holiday Symphony (excerpts) - The General Slocum - Overture in G Minor

THE GONG ON THE HOOK AND LADDER or FIREMEN'S PARADE ON MAIN STREET (I-C-30) (38, 70) NOTE: this piece was once published as "Calcium Light Night," which it is not; for the real "Calcium Light Night," see SET NO. 1: v
Recording Date/Location	Performing Artists	Record Label, Release Number, Format, Release Year	Album Names
January 31, 1967, Philharmonic Hall, New York City, NY.	New York Philharmonic; Leonard Bernstein, conductor	Columbia Records M3X-31068, stereo LP (1972). Deutsche Grammophon 4792770, CD (2014).	Favorite light classics: by Beethoven, Bernstein, Bordin, Chabrier, Copland, Falla, Gliere, Grieg, Grofe, Herold, Ippolitov-Ivanov, Ives, Mahler, Mozart, Offenbach, Rossini, Saint-Saens, Smetana, Johann Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Wagner. The Leonard Bernstein Collection: Volume 1: Part 4.