Charles Ives Works For Piano

Editorial Reviews
American Record Guide
"For the money, such unbridled creativity and compositional freedom is a total bargain -- and great positive behavioral reinforcement for creative spirits yet to emerge and speak. Mandel is an exceptional player who can be truly said to 'live' the music."

Tracks:

I. Allegro Moderato
II. Largo
I. Andante
II. Largo Cantabile
III. Allegro
I. Autumn
II. In The Barn
III. The Revival

Tracks:

I. Adagio
II. Allegro
III. Adagio
I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro

Album Description

"There are moments of quiet epiphany which [Wakabayashi] and Wise bring off with breathtaking intensity and beauty of sound. And, make no mistake, this is real music, not paper experimentation: inventive, communicative, life-enhancing. If you have yet to discover Ives, take advantage of Arte Nova's bargain price, and start here." -- BBC Music

Tracks:

Works for Piano: Three-Page Sonata (1905-06) - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: Song Without (Good) Words - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: Study No.9 - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: Study No. 22 - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: Study No. 20 - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: Study No. 18 - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: Study No. 15 - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: Study No. 2 - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: Study No. 8 - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: Study No. 7 - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: Study No. 6 - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: Study No. 5 - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: Rough and Ready - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: Scene Episode - Charles Ives

Tracks:

Works for Piano: Piano Sonata No. 2 (Concord, Mass. 1840-1860) - Emerson - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: Hawthorne - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: The Alcotts - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: Thoreau - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: Study No. 21 - 'Some Southpaw Pitching' - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: Waltz - Rondo - Charles Ives
Works for Piano: March In G And D - 'Here's To Good Old Yale' - Charles Ives

Tracks:

The Celestial Railroad, A Phantasie For Piano Solo - C. IVES
The Seen And Unseen - C. IVES
Anthem - Processional - C. IVES
Bad Resolutions And Good - C. IVES
Storm And Distress - C. IVES
Allegretto (Invention) - C. IVES
Baseball Take-Off - C. IVES
Varied Air And Variations - C. IVES
First Sonata: First Movement - C. IVES
First Sonata: Second Movement - C. IVES
First Sonata: Third Movement - C. IVES
First Sonata: Fourth Movement - C. IVES
First Sonata: Fifth Movement - C. IVES

Customer Reviews:

Just dandy!.......2003-10-04

My copy of this set sounds fine--a bit bright and edgy at times but nothing to write my congressperson about. I would've preferred a richer piano sound and modern digital recording, but hey, we can't have everything, especially in this sort of repertoire. These are swell performances of astonishing piano music. In unsympathetic hands, Ives (or nearly any "modern" composer) can sound like so much noodling--not so here. Ives himself enjoyed adventurous (and even incompetent!) interpretations of his music and was hardly fussy with his notation so it's tough to call any one recording of a work "definitive." A tip: look for hell-bent enthusiasm and/or profound mysticism more than any other qualities in Ives performances. You'll find them in this set, in old (and sonically imperfect) recordings like Bernstein's for CBS (now Sony) or the Stokowski performance of Symphony #4, and in the wonderful collection of Ives playing his own music. With Ives, the "critical edition" mentality or perfectionism of any type tend to miss the man's essential aesthetic and spiritual points.

More than a bargain.......2001-07-22

I listened to this set before I looked at the review already posted here; then I went back to listen again, thinking I must have missed something. For what it's worth, I did not detect distorted recording, though there are (as often with Ives) some odd sounds coming from the piano now and then--but I think they are part of it. Mandel's performances of the big works--the two sonatas--are distinctive and powerful. I am not sure I would say he replaces John Kirkpatrick's "Concord," but he stands comfortably in that company as a fine interpreter of the work, and his Sonata #1 is possibly the best I have heard of that work. The many shorter or minor pieces are performed well, so far as I can tell. I suppose it is possible that the earlier reviewer had a defective set, or possibly my ears are just not so finely tuned. I hope, however, that the recorded sound is at least as good as it sounds to me, since I would hope that both fans and newcomers would find this a welcome addition to an Ives collection.

5 Star Performance, 0 Star Recording.......1999-10-12

This is an excellent performance by Alan Mandel who, throughout these 3 discs, shows an uncanny ability to bring out the melody from within even the most convoluted Ives' piece. Unfortunately, most of this recording is distorted and noisy when the playing gets loud. All of the Studies on CD 1 contain distortion well beyond any professional recording I've ever heard (the 2 sonatas don't suffer from the same fate -- they appear to be from a different session). The fact that Vox goes on about their 20-bit digital mastering on the back of the box sure looks like they are "protesting too much". This is all a real shame for Ives fans because Mandel's playing is some of the finest Ives piano performances I've ever heard, plus, here in one place at a great price, are arcane pieces well worth hearing. (It's almost worth getting for that reason, but, in the end, you're stuck with fine music that's distorted and noisy.)

Classical Brass - Eastern Brass Quintet - works by Malcolm Arnold, Gabrieli, J.S. Bach, Hindemith, Charles Ives, etc.

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Classical Brass - Eastern Brass Quintet - works by Malcolm Arnold, Gabrieli, J.S. Bach, Hindemith, Charles Ives, etc.
Malcolm Arnold , Johann Sebastian Bach , Morley Calvert , John Cheetham , Francois Couperin , Giovanni Gabrieli , Paul Hindemith , Antony Holborne , Charles Ives , Claudio Monteverdi , Johann Hermann Schein , and Eastern Brass Quintet
Manufacturer: Klavier
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000009K6H
Release Date: 1990-11-01

Tracks:

Arnold: Quintet
Schein: Israelis Brunnlein: Die mit Tranen saen
Calvert: Suite from the Monteregian Hills
Hindemith: Morgenmusik
Monteverdi: Concertato "Qui rise Tirsi"
Monteverdi (arr. Baxter): Scherzi Musicali: O Rosetta
Bach (arr.): Cantata 147: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Bach (arr.): Sarabande
Bach (arr.): Minuet
Bach (arr.): Fantasie
F. Couperin (arr.): La Tromba; Air Tendre
Gabrieli: Canzona per Sonare No. 2
Bach (arr.): Art of the Fugue: Contrapunctus I
Bach (arr.): Art of the Fugue: Contrapunctus IX
Cheetham: Scherzo
Holborne (arr.): Muy Linda; Pavan; Galliard
Ives (arr.): On the Counter
Ives (arr.): Side Show
Ives (arr.): Slow March
Ives (arr.): Tarrant Moss

Customer Reviews:

A great purchase.......2006-10-09

Very clean playing, a high quality recording with wonderful balance.

Fantastic playing! Great repertoire.

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A Portrait

Manufacturer: Nonesuch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00004Y6RG
Release Date: 2000-10-24

Tracks:

Italian Con, BWV 971: I. Allegro - Columbia Conc Orch/Howard Barlow
Pno Con No.20 in d, K 466: I. Allegro - Columbia Conc Orch/Howard Barlow
Pno Con No.20 in d, K 466: II. Romanze - Columbia Conc Orch/Howard Barlow
Pno Con No.20 in d, K 466: III. Allegro Assai - Columbia Conc Orch/Howard Barlow
Hungarian Rhap No.13 - New York Phil/Efrem Kurtz
Pno Con No.2 in c, Op.18: II. Adagio Sostenuto - New York Phil/Efrem Kurtz
Pno Son: I. Allegro Con Moto - Teresa Sterne
Pno Son: II. Adagietto - Teresa Sterne
Pno Son: III. Allegro Vivo - Teresa Sterne
Pno Son: IV. Allegro - Teresa Sterne

Tracks:

Ov To An English Opr, Hob 1A-3 - The Little Orch Of London/Leslie Jones
Nun Freut Euch, Lieben Christen - Paul Jacobs
Herzlich Thut Mich Verlangen - Paul Jacobs
Etude, Book II - Paul Jacobs
Five Pno Pieces, Op.23: II Sehr Rasch - Paul Jacobs
Ionisation - The New Jersey Perc Ens/Raymond DesRoches
The Ragtime Dance - Joshua Rifkin
Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair - Jan DeGaetani/Gilbert Kalish
Blondel Zu Marien, D 626 - Jan DeGaetani/Gilbert Kalish
Double Con: Intro - Paul Jacobs/Gilbert Kalish
Pno Son No.2, 'Concord, Mass': III. The Alcotts - Gilbert Kalish
Wait 'Till The Sun Shines, Nellie - Joan Morris/William Bolcom
Graceful Ghost - William Bolcom
Ancient Voices Of Children: III. De Donde Vienes, Amor, Mi Nino?/IV. Todas Las Tardes En Granada... - Jan DeGaetani/Michael Dash
Nyamamusango (Meat In The Forest) - Hakurotwi Mude/Cosmas Magaya/Ephat Mujuri
Vetar Vee - Vasilka Andonova/Kremena Stancheva
Ta Shto Mi E Miloj, Mamo - Nadezhda Georgieva Klicherova/Gena Ivanova Bodenova/Nadezhda Georgieva Paleastova
Ketjak Dance - Teresa Sterne
I Big You Goodnight - Edith Pinder/Geneva Pinder/Raymond Pinder/Joseph Spence
Oyun Havasi - Teresa Sterne
Ketawang Puspawarna - Teresa Sterne

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The life of Teresa Sterne is as noteworthy as the label she once presided over (Nonesuch). As a child prodigy, she successfully filled world-class auditoriums in the 1940s with audiences eager to hear her piano playing. Then, inexplicably, Sterne abandoned her concert career only to resurface as the leader behind Nonesuch Records in the late 1960s, turning the budget classical label into one of the more adventurous and consistently rewarding labels around (and generally keeping quiet about her earlier fame). Half of this double-CD tribute collects recordings of a teenage Sterne at the keyboard; the second disc is devoted to some of the finest recordings from her Nonesuch tenure (1965-1979)--both are engrossing.

Ignore the surface noise on Sterne's disc (no small task on the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20), and you'll hear a young pianist in fine form--she is expressive, and boasts crisp articulation and fine technique. She dances through Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 with riveting intensity; on Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 (with the New York Philharmonic), she shows a sensitive but no less virtuosic side. On the second disc, we get a virtual best-of for Nonesuch Records, including tracks by Joshua Rifkin, Paul Jacobs, and William Bolcom. Hard to imagine anyone doing it these days, but in one five-year period (1970-1975), Nonesuch released albums featuring the music of Stephen Foster, Edgar Varese, George Crumb, and a platter of Bulgarian folk tunes. They're all here. Now battling Lou Gehrig's disease, Sterne herself may be unable to celebrate this release, but for anyone who has treasured a release from Nonesuch's glory days, it's a moving tribute. --Jason Verlinde

Charles Ives / Aaron Copland: Piano Works
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William Gregory: "On The Turntable"

American Record Guide

¡Wow!

Buy it, you'll love it...

excellent performance and superb sound!

Charles Ives / Aaron Copland: Piano Works
Ives , Copland , and Nalley
Manufacturer: Eroica Classical
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00006L4Z6
Release Date: 2002-09-07

Tracks:

I. Adagio con moto
IIa. First Verse: Allegro moderato
IIb. Second Verse: 'In the Inn' Allegro
III. Largo-allegro-largo
IV. Allegro-presto
V. Andante maestoso
I. Molto moderato
II. Vivace
III. Andante sostenuto

Album Description

Charles Ives, Sonata No. 1 Aaron Copland, Sonata JDT 3097

Charles Ives Sonata No. 1 (1902-1910) I. Adagio con moto IIa. First Verse: Allegro moderato IIb. Second Verse: 'In the Inn' Allegro III. Largo-allegro-largo IV. Allegro-presto V. Andante maestoso

Aaron Copland Sonata (1939-1941) I. Molto moderato II. Vivace III. Andante sostenuto

James Nalley Piano

Customer Reviews:

William Gregory: "On The Turntable".......2003-02-22

Ives: Sonata no 1/ Copland: Sonata
James Nally-Piano (Eroica)

James Nally has conceived this great Modern American Sonata album, and it resounds with aplomb, idyllic youth and passion. The Copland and Ives Sonatas compliment one another like bookends, laying out a sonic wilderness that serves to remind us of our rich contribution to the cannon of contemporary music. The diversity found in the collage-like composition of Ive's Sonata is fragmented and trance inducing. Due in large part to Lou Harrison's considerable editing, Ives found his voice; a voice that pre-dated today's ideas of sampling. Ives extrapolated folk music, classical forms and gospel music to create a distinct voice that crossed boundaries. In this piano Sonata in particular we find Ives, borrowing from ragtime, hymns such as "What a friend we have in Jesus" and "Bringing in the Sheaves" and Liszt. While Copland's Sonata seems to be in juxtaposition to the Ives piece, it's simple to find the shared vision of the folk idiom and tribute to Americana. Mr. Nalley intelligently and vividly portrays these masterful pieces by setting the tone for each movement with precision and rapture. His playing is a concise explosion of mind, body and sound that is at times reminiscent of Pierre Laurent Aimard. This is a truly magnificent set of performances. William Gregory: "On the Turntable."

American Record Guide.......2003-01-08

Copland: Piano Sonata
Ives: Piano Sonata I
James Nalley-Eroica 3097-65 minutes

The first impression of this release is the strong lyrical sense pianist Nalley brings to these thorny American works: the first sonata of Charles Ives with its atypical format of seven movements (two of which are grouped together), and Aaron Copland's only piano sonata with its three movements.
Ives worked on this sonata on and off from about 1902 to 1929. Because of Nalley's sympathetic ear for Ives the experimenter, his sound is full of beauty, even in what may first strike the ear as startling dissonances. His lyrical and harmonic senses guide the ear through a thicket of otherwise confusing harmonies and textures. And the result is a revelation.
While there are many passages full of clusters and unpredictable and irregular rhythms, expression and sound are enough to know what is going on, whether expansive and rhapsodic or foot-stomping dances. There are pockets of tonality, phrasing, and rhythmic gestures that keep the listener oriented. So for listeners who had just a few experiences with the more disorienting modern music of the last 50 years, or for those who skipped it but still went to movies in the meantime, this music will not seem so unmoored and forbidding as it was when first composed.
Ives makes considerable musical and technical demands on the pianist. One can tell he had a good sense of the piano and what tends to work on the instrument, what is idiomatic and natural to the hands in this setting. Like Brahms, Ives was probably a big man whose physique seemed to influence the technical demands he made to convey his musical ideas.
At first, there is a listener's satisfaction in recognizing and being able to name familiar melodies. But Ives's intention was to use familiar quotations, (such as 'Bringing in the Sheaves') that resonate with the American experience. Often this took the form of hymns from the Protestant tradition. The closer the listener's experience with this tradition, the deeper the resonance of the musical quotation.
Copland's voice is unmistakable. Dating from 1939, his Piano Sonata, where I is so reminiscent of his Variations of 1930, is impressive with its many clangorous and granitic sounds--so many gestures made up of wide intervals and leaps. The playful and charming II resembles the helter-skelter scherzo of Samuel Barber's sonata. It uses the interval of a major 6th both melodically and harmonically as the main building block. III's tone is majestic and reverential. Nalley tunes in to the introverted expression, creating a timeless, other-worldly quality. The clangorous clusters resemble pealing bells, with their loud overtones. And as the movement fades out, the "bells" resonate as if at a distance. Remarkably played. This recording is a real treasure! BARELA

¡Wow!.......2002-11-02

¡Buy it! Buy two, buy three, buy a bunch and hand them out for Christmas.

Buy it, you'll love it..........2002-10-10

Hard to believe I've never heard of this guy. He's one of the best pianists I've ever come across. If you like American classical music, you won't be let down by this amazing performance.

excellent performance and superb sound!.......2002-09-19

This is an excellent performance and the sound was superb!

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Hodgepodge of mostly excerpts

Moonlight Escapes

Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00006GO8S
Release Date: 2002-09-24

Customer Reviews:

Hodgepodge of mostly excerpts.......2005-05-16

This is a rather superficial compilation of excerpts from chamber and orchestral music. The only reason I even wrote a review is to mention that nearly all of the featured composers on this CD are 20th century composeres from very diverse backgrounds. There is an Arvo Part track, a track by the female composer Libby Larsen (I wish I would see more of this on these mixed CDs), and a beautiful Bagatelle by Miklos Rozsa. I do thank the label (KOCH) for introducing me to Rozsa's music, but other than that, it's pretty much bound for the next garage-sale.

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Ives: Works for Violin & Piano

Manufacturer: Endeavour Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00094ASZE
Release Date: 2005-05-24

Tracks:

I. Allegro
II. Largo
III. Allegro
Decoration Day
Largo
I. Adagio
II. Allegro
III. Adagio (Cantabile)
From 'Night Of Frost In May' (S.309)
Weil' Aur Mir ('Eyes So Dark', S.387)
Karen (S.285)
Feldeinsamkeit ('In Summer Fields', S.250)
Rosamunde (S.337)
Omens And Oracles (S.317)
Berceuse (S.220)

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A Classical Odyssey

Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

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Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00005AKLM
Release Date: 2001-03-20

Tracks:

Con: Allegro - Kennedy/Albrecht Meyer
Str Qt, Op.18 No.2: Adagio Cantabile - Allegro - Petersen Qt
Dix Pieces Pittoresques: Scherzo - Valse - Naida Cole
Passava Amor Su Arco Desarmado - Andreas Scholl
Nursery Ste: 3 Movts - ECO/Paul Goodwin
Sicilienne - Han-Na Chang
Son: Ricerario Sopra Il Sesto Tuono - Accademia Per Musica/Christoph Timpe
The Magic Flute: Act 1: Der Holle Rache - Natalie Dessay
Ste Populair Bresilienne Mazurka - Norbert Kraft
The Alcotts - Lara Downes
Merry Mount Ste Love Duet - Nashville SO/Kenneth Schermerhorn
Islamey (Exc) - Lang Lang
The Marriage Of Figaro: Act 1: Non So Piu Cosa Son - Susan Graham
Etude-Tableaux in c# - Arcadi Volodos
The Four Seasons 'Spring': Allegro - Giuliano Carmignola

Charles Ives: Complete Works for Violin and Piano

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Charles Ives: Complete Works for Violin and Piano

Manufacturer: Arte Nove Int'l
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004SX25
Release Date: 2002-10-29

Album Details

Ddd. The American Charles Ives was One of the Most Progressive Composers of the Early 20th Century. His Works Combines Compositionalmastery with Experimental Genius.

Patience for the Harvest : A Parallel Portrait of Jenny Lind & Emily Dickinson

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Belle of Amherst Meets the Swedish Nightingale
Belle of Amherst Meets the Swedish Nightingale

Patience for the Harvest : A Parallel Portrait of Jenny Lind & Emily Dickinson

Manufacturer: Parallel Portraits
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004TTI8
Release Date: 2000-05-15

Tracks:

Jenny Lind speaks
Adagio, Sonata in D, Op. 58 - Felix Mendelssohn
Jenny Lind speaks
Andante molto, Three Romances, Op. 22 - Clara Schumann
Jenny Lind speaks
Berceuse, Op. 40 #2 - Amy Beach
Jenny Lind speaks
Romance, Op. 44 - Anton Rubinstein
Jenny Lind speaks
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean - anonymous
Jenny Lind speaks
Minuet & Trio, Sonata Op. 38 - Johannes Brahms
Jenny Lind speaks
Der Leiermann from "Winterreise" - Franz Schubert
Jenny Lind speaks
Shall We Gather at the River? - Charles Ives
Jenny Lind speaks
La Captive, Op. 40 #1 - Amy Beach

Customer Reviews:

Belle of Amherst Meets the Swedish Nightingale.......2000-12-14

Chamber Music Plus continues its Parallel Portraits series with an examination of two mid-nineteenth-century cultural icons, American poet Emily Dickinson and Swedish coloratura Jenny Lind. The two women couldn't have been less alike: Dickinson was practically a recluse and Lind's concert career was heavily promoted by huckster P. T. Barnum.

As in previous offerings in the Parallel Portraits series, Chamber Music Plus has enlisted the talents of a well-known actress, in this case Jill Clayburgh. (Previous recordings have featured Theodore Bikel and Edward Herrmann.) Cellist/script writer Harry Clark has come up with a winning formula: The actor/actress portrays one of the historical figures and reads excerpts from the other's correspondence. Clark and pianist Sanda Schuldmann intersperse the text with music with which the protaganists might have been familiar.

The Clark-Schuldmann Duo are exemplary players, and they offer generous amounts of music. The one serious criticism I have of the format is that the spoken text often goes on much longer than is comfortable on a CD (it works well in a theater, by the way). Surprisingly, there are no examples of the vocal music sung by Lind; soprano Jane Bryden frequently works with the Clark-Schuldmann Duo and might have been pressed into service for the recording. Both Clark and Clayburgh have done their homework: The works are well-researched and -presented, and Clayburgh's understanding of her characters is evident.

All in all, a fine addition to this unique genre.

Belle of Amherst Meets the Swedish Nightingale.......2000-12-14

The Clark-Schuldmann Duo are exemplary players, and they offer generous amounts of music. The one serious criticism I have of the format is that the spoken text often goes on much longer than is comfortable on a CD (it works well in a theater, by the way). Both Clark and Clayburgh have done their homework: The works are well-researched and -presented, and Clayburgh's understanding of her characters is evident.

All in all, a fine addition to this unique genre.

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