Utwory na płycie:

• 1 Sonate für Klavier Nr. 4 (Children's day at the camp meeting) - 1. Allegro.mp3
• 2 Sonate für Klavier Nr. 4 (Children's day at the camp meeting) - 2. Largo.mp3
• 3 Sonate für Klavier Nr. 4 (Children's day at the camp meeting) - 3. Allegro.mp3
• 4 Sonate für Klavier Nr. 2 (Conccord, Massachusetts, 1840-1860) - 1. Emerson.mp3
• 5 Sonate für Klavier Nr. 2 (Conccord, Massachusetts, 1840-1860) - 2. Hawthorne.mp3
• 6 Sonate für Klavier Nr. 2 (Conccord, Massachusetts, 1840-1860) - 3. The Alcotts.mp3
• 7 Sonate für Klavier Nr. 2 (Conccord, Massachusetts, 1840-1860) - 4. Thoreau.mp3

Sonata No. 2, ‘Concord, Mass., 1840–60’
Sonata No. 4, ‘Children’s Day at the Camp Meeting’

Charles Ives’s ‘Concord Sonata’ is often described as one of the greatest of American piano works. Published in 1920, at the composer’s own expense, it contains radical experiments in harmony and rhythm and would have to wait until 1939 for its first public performance. In the course of its four movements, Ives depicts some of the famous inhabitants of the small town of Concord in Massachusetts, a centre of the mid-19thcentury transcendentalism movement. Luminaries of the movement such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are alluded to in various ways in music that includes references to Beethoven, religious and patriotic hymns and circus marches, as well as brief ‘guest appearances’ by a viola and a flute. Lasting 47 minutes on the present recording, Ives’s second piano sonata is a massive work of a staggering complexity, and a true challenge for any performer –a challenge more than readily accepted by the young Finnish pianist JoonasAhonen, who has previously recorded Ligeti’spiano concerto for BIS.