Celebrating the 4th (a day early) with Ives and Ormandy

There is a bit of a mystery here.  I posted an item with this title on the blog this morning, and this evening it seems to have disappeared, so I will try to reconstruct it now. 

I try to celebrate Independence Day by listening to Charles Ives's 4th of July each year.  This year, I had waiting to be heard the new release from Arkivmusic.com of the mid-1970s recording of Ives's Holidays Symphony by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra.  I had this in the original LP release, but during the 1970s RCA was making lousy LPs and I had not cared for the original.  My experience with this reissue series has been that the remastered recordings from that period are extraordinarily good, and so it proved with this release.  Both the Symphony and the Three Places in New England, also recorded at about the same time, sound spectacularly good on this CD, and Ormandy provides an unusually romantic view of Ives, different from the mainstream of Ives performances, that is worth hearing.  I heartily recommend it.