Philip Mead- Varied Air
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 and transcendental always wholly consistent within it's 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. VOTED GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE TOP CHOICE 2012 (for the Concord Sonata)
Tracklist:
- Piano Sonata No.2 Concord, Mass., 1840-1860: I. Emerson
- Piano Sonata No.2 Concord, Mass., 1840-1860: II. Hawthorne
- Piano Sonata No.2 Concord, Mass., 1840-1860: III. Alcotts
- Piano Sonata No.2 Concord, Mass., 1840-1860: IV Thoreau
- Three-Page Sonata
- Study No.2 Varied Air and Variations
- Study No.9 The Anti-Abolitionist Riots in the 1830's and 1840's
- Waltz-Rondo
- Piano Sonata No.1: I.
- Piano Sonata No.1: II.A
- Piano Sonata No.1: II.B
- Piano Sonata No.1: III.
- Piano Sonata No.1: IV.A
- Piano Sonata No.1: IV.B
- Piano Sonata No.1: V.
- Study No.20
- Study No.21 Some South-Paw Pitching!
- Study No.22
- Study No. 23 Baseball Take-Off
- Take-Offs: I. The Seen and Unseen?
- Take-Offs: II. Rough and Ready et al
- Take-Offs: III. Song Without (Good) Words
- Take-Offs: IV. Scene Episode
- Take-Offs: V. Bad Resolutions and Good Wan
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 and transcendental always wholly consistent within it's 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. VOTED GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE TOP CHOICE 2012 (for the Concord Sonata)
Tracklist:
- Piano Sonata No.2 Concord, Mass., 1840-1860: I. Emerson
- Piano Sonata No.2 Concord, Mass., 1840-1860: II. Hawthorne
- Piano Sonata No.2 Concord, Mass., 1840-1860: III. Alcotts
- Piano Sonata No.2 Concord, Mass., 1840-1860: IV Thoreau
- Three-Page Sonata
- Study No.2 Varied Air and Variations
- Study No.9 The Anti-Abolitionist Riots in the 1830's and 1840's
- Waltz-Rondo
- Piano Sonata No.1: I.
- Piano Sonata No.1: II.A
- Piano Sonata No.1: II.B
- Piano Sonata No.1: III.
- Piano Sonata No.1: IV.A
- Piano Sonata No.1: IV.B
- Piano Sonata No.1: V.
- Study No.20
- Study No.21 Some South-Paw Pitching!
- Study No.22
- Study No. 23 Baseball Take-Off
- Take-Offs: I. The Seen and Unseen?
- Take-Offs: II. Rough and Ready et al
- Take-Offs: III. Song Without (Good) Words
- Take-Offs: IV. Scene Episode
- Take-Offs: V. Bad Resolutions and Good Wan