Richard  |  New York, New York  |  不明  |  2008年07月15日

This long-awaited Holidays is a terrific reissue of a terrific performance and recording, one of the best produced by Jay David Saks, with great transparency and full-bodied natural sound. The wide dynamic range really needed digital remastering; in ”Decoration Day,” for example, this CD gives you the full contrast between an ethereally quiet ”Taps” (heard ”through the pines and hickories,” as Ives wrote) and the raucous Reeves ”Quickstep” a few measures later, and the choral entrance in ”Thanks