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	Piano Sonata No. 2 (Ives) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840-60 by Charles Ives, commonly known as the Concord Sonata, is one of the composer's best-known and most highly regarded pieces.
		In the introduction to his Essays Before a Sonata (published immediately before the Concord Sonata) Ives said the work was his "impression of the spirit of transcendentalism that is associated in the minds of many with Concord, Mass.
		Unusually for a piano sonata, there are optional parts for other instruments: near the end of the first movement there is an optional part for viola, and in the last movement a flute (an instrument which Thoreau played) briefly appears.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piano_Sonata_No._2_(Ives) (507 words)

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	Ives: Concord Sonata - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Charles Ives's massive Concord Sonata, his second sonata for piano, named after the town of Concord in Massachusetts, is central to his output and clearly reflects his aesthetic perspective.
		As well as a discussion of the Sonata's reception history from 1920 to the present, and a chapter on its compositional genesis, this handbook includes a detailed narrative of the motivic content as well as a historical and analytical survey of the work's borrowings, both certifiable and newly proposed.
		The programmatic element of the Sonata is explored in the context of Ives's personal vision of four literary subjects associated with the town of Concord between 1840 and 1860: Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and the Alcotts.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=052149821X (218 words)

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	Liner Notes Ives
		In the "Concord" Sonata, for example, the simplest and most linear continuity solution is reserved for the simplest characters, "The Alcotts", the most complex and convoluted for the most complex character, "Emerson".
		It is for this reason that in his lengthy preface published concurrently with the "Concord" Sonata, "Essays before a Sonata", Ives rarely touches on technical issues related to the performance of the sonata.
		In this light, the proper measure for the success of a performance of the "Concord" Sonata is, clearly, the degree to which it suggests the program envisioned by Ives, the degree to which it approximates the spirit behind the music.
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	Pierre-Laurent Aimard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Charles Ivesâs monumental Concord Sonata was inspired by the New England Transcendentalists active in Concord, Massachusetts in the two decades before the Civil War.
		The first performance of the âConcordâ Sonata was given in November 1938, in Cos Cob, Connecticut, by John Kirkpatrick.
		While the first three movements of the âConcordâ Sonata are clearly analogous to the allegro, scherzo, and adagio of the sonata as Beethoven knew it, the fourth movement, âThoreau,â breaks the pattern.
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_3632_pf.html (1794 words)

	Concord sonata composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The movements’of sonata s four are related to the famous’residents of concord s: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the family of Alcott (Bronson including and Louisa daughter May), and Henry David Thoreau.
		Ives never applied “sonata” to its works slightly (there is two for the piano, four for the violin and piano.) George Ives taught to his affluent son, and the youngest studies’ of Ives Yale also helped.
		Whereas the concord is of orchestra in its reach, it continues being a work’of pianist s, desemejante of the peluquero, that sounds improper for the keys of the piano.
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	ionarts
		In the case of the Concord sonata, it is not only a time and place that Ives evokes, but the writings of great Transcendentalist authors who lived there: in the order of the movements, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Alcott's (Branson and Louisa May), and Henry David Thoreau.
		These songs are a wonderful complement to the Concord sonata, illuminating it with parallel glimpses of Ives's musical imagination.
		He did make an earlier recording of the Concord sonata (with a sonata by Maurice Wright, released on CD in 1992), which I haven't heard yet.
	ionarts.blogspot.com /2006/01/ives-concord-sonata.html (1725 words)

	BBC - Classical Review - Ives: Concord Sonata, Songs, Pierre-Laurent Aimard/Susan Graham
		The 'Concord' Sonata by Charles Ives may attempt to break the sound barrier, at least in pianistic terms, but the title refers to a time and place in American history long before jet travel.
		It was written in 1912 as an attempt to present one person's impression of the spirit of the literature, the philosophy, and the men of Concord, Mass.
		Already this is a strongly recommendable disc, but the icing on the cake is the 17 Ives songs that precede the Sonata: 'a kind of laboratory of ideas' Aimard has called them, sung with unselfconscious American intonation and a rare beauty of tone and line by mezzo Susan Graham.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/classical/reviews/ivesconcord_aimard.shtml (587 words)

	Tzimon Barto
		The entire first movement follows the typical exposition-development-recapitulation formula of the standard Sonata form, and within that form, there is a constant struggle going on within the rising, sharply angular lines (for the most part, different bisections of the hymn melody), and the constant quotation (both loud and soft) of the fate motif.
		He is doubtlessly the most poetic among the “Concord” Sonata’s four chief personages, both in his actual writings, and Ives’ musical transpositions of the same.
		The Sonata is a tortuous farewell, and an unquiet though not hopeless prediction of what looms in the future.
	www.tzimonbarto.com /Pianist/Reviews_NotesOnTheIvesConcordSonata.htm (1951 words)

	charles ives \| composer
		Burkholder's contention is that the Ives family fostered a broad interest in religion in its ethical teachings, therefore Ives' interest in Transcendentalism (in the works of Emerson, Thoreau, etc.) lay as a system of belief rather than as a literary movement.
		The point is critical for us, the listeners, as three movements of the sonata (and the accompanying essays) bear the names of the great Transcendental writers.
		This sonata allegro juxtaposition on the Concord as a whole may be the most helpful tool for the listener.
	www.lichtensteiger.de /ives.html (1857 words)

	Charles Ives' "Concord Sonata" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Charles Ives' "Concord Sonata" is a musical portrait of four famous authors who all lived in Concord, Massachusetts some 150 years ago.
		The music, written around 1910-1915, is Ives' most wide-ranging and ambitious score, combining the refined with the popular, Beethovenian development (the opening of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is a recurring theme which unites all four movements) with adventuresome, contemporary explosions of sound.
		The Concord Sonata is generally acknowledged to be one of the greatest American compositions ever, yet because of its difficulty is seldom heard "live" in concert.
	www.sover.net /~foodsong/concord.htm (387 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| \| Ives: Concord Sonata; Barber: Piano Sonata: Marc-André Hamelin
		That was highly regarded, and had this new version been released just six months earlier it might have been hailed as a near-definitive account of one of the greatest of all 20th-century piano works.
		For all his deft fingerwork and consummate handling of the sonata's technical difficulties, Hamelin's performance seems lightweight and decorative alongside Aimard.
		Samuel Barber's 1949 sonata is an unlikely pairing but a successful one, and while Hamelin's playing never quite erases memories of Horowitz's tumultuous recording, it gives the sonata momentum and intensity.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /fridayreview/story/0,12102,1271649,00.html (153 words)

	Working Dogs Book Store - Ives: Concord Sonata; Barber: Piano Sonata
		Seeing that he has recorded these two brilliant American sonatas and had the courage to place them back to back on one CD reveals another side of the man's genius.
		Having heard this sonata performed live on many occasions the audience always seems to respond in marvel that the pianist could get through it, much less relate the lilting stories behind each segment.
		The Concord Sonata is one of my favorite works, and I think it is not only perhaps the greatest American work but I can't think of another 20th century work that matches the scale, complexity, and beauty of this work.
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	Charles Ives Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord" Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In short, the sonata is a series of meditations on four great Transcendentalist writers: Emerson, Hawthorne, "The Alcotts," and Thoreau.
		The first documented public performance of the Concord Sonata took place on November 28, 1938 in Cos Cob, Connecticut.
		This sonata is exceptionally great music--it is, indeed, the greatest music composed by an American, and the most deeply and essentially American in impulse and implication.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /Ives/WK_Piano_Sonata_2.htm (755 words)

	Charles Ives: Piano Sonata No. 2 'Concord'; The Celestial Railroad - techwritingjobs.com Info and Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		With the Concord sonata, Ives wrote a truly monumental work; difficult but a mainstay of American music.
		I've never heard a bad performance of Ives's 'Concord' Sonata, except perhaps for my own fumbling attempt at the 'Alcott' movement at a musical soirï¿½e many years ago.
		(Ruth Laredo, when she heard I was working on the sonata, said that she would have assumed it was beyond me, and she was right, alas.) Further, I've never encountered a bad recording of it, and I've heard them all except for the one by Alexei Lubimov.
	www.techwritingjobs.com /shop/asinsearch_B0002KQO8U.html (364 words)

	Ives: Concord Sonata : Piano Sonata No. 2 (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Why the auther chose this, the most unanticipated work since Garfunkel's "Songs From a Parent to a Child", on which to base a story of suspense is beyond me. The most disappointing point to all of this is that Geoffrey Block, a man with so promising a name, could fall so far from genius.
		Charles Ives' massive Concord Sonata, his second sonata for piano, named after the town of Concord in Massachusetts, is central to his output and clearly reflects his aesthetic perspective.
		This handbook discusses the Sonata's reception history and its compositional genesis, as well as providing a detailed account of the work's thematic content, its use of borrowed material, and the degree to which the program is influenced by the Concord Transcendentalists.
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	Charles Ives Second Piano Sonata Recordings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Many pianists capture the improvisatory qualities of the "Concord" in its more meditative moments, but Longobardi finds that same spontaneous, creation-in-the-moment quality throughout, even when he is pounding away on the keyboard, kicking up a storm.
		His first recording of the "Concord," the work's premiere on disc, was made in 1945, predating stereo sound by ten years or so.
		More than other masterworks from the classical piano repertoire, Ives' "Concord" Sonata requires performers to put the stamp of their own personality on the work.
	www.musicweb-international.com /Ives/RR_Piano_Sonata_2.htm (2556 words)

	La Folia -- Transcendentalist Studies: Aimard, Hamelin, Mayer, Mead Tackle Ives' Concord Sonata
		The sonata’s second edition, ready in 1941, was not published until 1947, the year Ives won the Pulitzer Prize for his Third Symphony.
		The sonata’s four movements relate to Concord’s famous residents: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Alcott family (including Bronson and daughter Louisa May), and Henry David Thoreau.
		While Concord is orchestral in its scope, it remains a pianist’s work, unlike the Barber, which sounds unfit for piano keys.
	www.lafolia.com /archive/covell/covell200411concord.html (2878 words)

	Charles Ives' "Concord" Sonata performed by pianist Marilyn Nonken
		The title of the sonata refers to the town of Concord, Massachusetts, the focal point of American Transcendentalism.
		The conductor Nicolas Slonimsky, music critic Henry Bellamann, pianist John Kirkpatrick (who performed the Concord Sonata at its triumphant premiere in New York in 1939), and the composer Lou Harrison (who conducted the premiere of the Symphony No. 3) played a key role in introducing Ives's music to a wider audience.
		Soon after, his works were taken up and championed by such leading conductors as Leonard Bernstein and, at his death in 1954, he had witnessed a rise from obscurity to a position of eminence among the world's leading performers and musical institutions.
	www.ensemble21.com /nonken/mn.ives.html (763 words)

	Classical Net Review - Ives - "Concord" Sonata & Studies
		As his Essays Before a Sonata makes clear, Ives regarded music as, to paraphrase Clauswitz, philosophy carried on by other means - not just any philosophy either, but the discursive style practiced by Emerson, Thoreau, and Carlyle.
		In the sonata, the opening motive of the Fifth Symphony is the musical icon given the most prominence.
		Several noteworthy recordings of the sonata have appeared from such artists as John Kirkpatrick, Easley Blackwood, Gilbert Kalish, and Alan Mandel.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/r/rgy87078a.html (1087 words)

	Nicholas Zumbro
		He is one of the few pianists to have consistently programmed the Concord and has given the first performance of the work in many countries to great critical acclaim.
		In 1994, the Concert Artists label released his recordings of the complete Goyescas of Granados, the Barber Sonata and Ives' notoriously challenging, but majestic Concord Sonata.
		Zumbro who gave the premiere of the Concord Sonata in Amsterdam, Milan and other European centers.
	www.concertartist.info /IMCA/ZUM001.html (595 words)

	Amazon.com: Ives: Concord Sonata; Songs: Music: Pierre-Laurent Aimard,Susan Graham,Charles Ives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This superb recording takes us one step further in appreciating Ives' gifts: his breathtaking Concord Sonata is coupled with one of the finest selections of his many songs and both sonata and songs are performed with consummate skill by pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard and mezzo soprano Susan Graham.
		The result is a Concord Sonata of majesty and honest simplicity.
		The Concord Sonata is definetly the reason you may want to own this disc.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001HZ6MO?v=glance (1915 words)

	ezFolk Media Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ives' Second Sonata is one of the toughest, but it holds no fears for Aimard, a noted interpreter of Messiaen, Ligetti, and other moderns who require virtuoso technique and idiomatic expertise.
		There's an abundance of power in his playing, but also ravishing effects like the startling diminuendo in "Thoreau" and the array of marches, hymns, and parlor songs Ives threw into the mix.
		His terrific "Concord" Sonata is matched by the survey of Ives' inventive songs, 17 of them superbly sung by Susan Graham with Aimard superb as her piano partner.
	www.ezfolk.com /cgi-bin/ae.pl?asinsearch=B0001HZ6MO (567 words)

	Piano Sonatas by Ives and Copland
		Few pianists have had the courage to tackle Ives' "Concord" Sonata in public.
		Blackwood earned high praise for his concert performances of Ives' "Concord" Sonata, a set of transcendentalist meditations named for Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcott family and Thoreau, all of whom lived in Concord, Mass.
		Copland's Piano Sonata, long overshadowed by his populist works, represents his most profound and personal thoughts.
	www.cedillerecords.org /005.html (224 words)

	The Concord Sonata and Symphony
		Charles Ives' Concord Sonata was inspired by the works of the 19th century Concord writers.
		This work is more fully called the Sonata No. 2 for Piano: Concord, Mass., 1840-60, and was composed between 1910-15.
		A review of a recording by pianist Daan Vandewalle, explaining each of the movements of the Concord Sonata.
	www.concordma.com /magazine/sept98/music.html (664 words)

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