On offer here a Near-Mint, First Edition, and First/Early Pressing Columbia Masterworks Stereo album carrying Four First Recordings of Charles Ives' finest, inventive, trenchant chamber music masterpieces.  Soloists include violinist Paul Zukofsky and pianist Gilbert Kalish renowned in this era for crusading and incisive presentations of neglected and new American musics. Dating from 1973, this album testifies to the then growing rediscovery of and admiration for one of America's most idiosyncratic creative artists and chamber music composers of daring originality. This disk carries no fewer than 4 World Premieres of Ives' proudly American compositions for chamber ensembles. Amazing stuff at every turn. Disk deadwax hand-engraved 1H (Side 1) and machine stamped 2H (Side 2) thus First Edition of Release with First and Early Pressings from the original Stereo masters. Under bright light, disk appears Near-Mint. Play Grading shows only a very few light ticks here and there with superb miking of solo instruments. Jacket is also Near-Mint. Not a Cut-Out. A superlative copy of a key musical document in the discovery of modern American chamber compositions. 

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