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There have been tauter, more warmly expressive versions of the major work in this enterprising collection, Ives’s Symphony 3. However, James Sinclair is a long-established Ives specialist, who has edited a number of the master’s works, and in the rest of the disc he secures more concentrated playing, notably in the hushed writing of the two Contemplations, The Unanswered Question and Central Park in the Dark. The high contrasts and extrovert humour of Washington’s Birthday, the Country Band March and the Overture and March (1776) are well caught, too, helped by full, colourful recording.