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The solo piano music of Ives represents an extraordinary achievement. “Experimental” is a word often associated with it. But “experimental” in what sense? Certainly he was exploring a wholly unique and personal style. Ives’ music is by turns, exploratory, powerful, sensitive, eccentric and transcendental always wholly consistent within its own, sometimes highly unusual terms.
These qualities are there in abundance in his two crowning achievements the first and second sonatas. The studies and others orbit round these like planets to twin suns.
GramophoneMagazine: best recording of the ‘Concord Sonata’
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Charles Ives:
- Piano Sonata no. 2 – I. Emerson (15:34)
- Piano Sonata no. 2 – II. Hawthorne (11:37)
- Piano Sonata no. 2 – III. The Alcotts (5:16)
- Piano Sonata no. 2 – IV, Thoreau (11:30)
- Three-Page Sonata (6:25)
- Study no. 2 – Varied Air and Variations (5:29)
- Study no. 9 – The Anti-Abolitionist Riots (2:25)
- Waltz-Rondo (6:16)
- Piano Sonata no. 1 – Section 1 (8:41)
- Piano Sonata no. 1 – Section 2a (1:41)
- Piano Sonata no. 1 – Section 2b (4:10)
- Piano Sonata no. 1 – Section 3 (7:06)
- Piano Sonata no. 1 – Section 4a (1:18)
- Piano Sonata no. 1 – Section 4b (2:53)
- Piano Sonata no. 1 – Section 5 (12:37)
- Study no. 20 (8:36)
- Study no. 21 – Some South-paw Pitching (2:35)
- Study no. 22 (1:56)
- Study no. 23 – Baseball take-Off (4:46)
- Five Take-Offs – The Seen and Unseen? (2:41)
- Five Take-Offs – Rough and Ready et al (2:39)
- Five Take-Offs – Song Without (Good) Words (3:37)
- Five Take-Offs – Scene Episode (2:26)
- Five Take-Offs – Bad Resolutions and Good Wan (1:02)
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Piano Sonata no. 2 – I. Emerson (15:34)
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Piano Sonata no. 2 – II. Hawthorne (11:37)
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Piano Sonata no. 2 – III. The Alcotts (5:16)
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Piano Sonata no. 2 – IV, Thoreau (11:30)
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Three-Page Sonata (6:25)
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Study no. 2 – Varied Air and Variations (5:29)
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Study no. 9 – The Anti-Abolitionist Riots (2:25)
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Waltz-Rondo (6:16)
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Piano Sonata no. 1 – Section 1 (8:41)
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Piano Sonata no. 1 – Section 2a (1:41)
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Piano Sonata no. 1 – Section 2b (4:10)
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Piano Sonata no. 1 – Section 3 (7:06)
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Piano Sonata no. 1 – Section 4a (1:18)
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Piano Sonata no. 1 – Section 4b (2:53)
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Piano Sonata no. 1 – Section 5 (12:37)
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Study no. 20 (8:36)
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Study no. 21 – Some South-paw Pitching (2:35)
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Study no. 22 (1:56)
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Study no. 23 – Baseball take-Off (4:46)
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Five Take-Offs – The Seen and Unseen? (2:41)
21
Five Take-Offs – Rough and Ready et al (2:39)
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Five Take-Offs – Song Without (Good) Words (3:37)
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Five Take-Offs – Scene Episode (2:26)
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Five Take-Offs – Bad Resolutions and Good Wan (1:02)
