"Despite much of the compositional output of American modernist Charles Ives (1874-1954) remaining unperformed until after his death, he is now well-established as a significant and pioneering composer whose works 'continue to find new friends and vigorous champions worldwide.' So observes Geoffrey Block in his excellent liner notes. His Concord Sonata, for piano with optional viola and flute (in first and last movements) is a complex programmatic work centred on the lives of four significant figures in the transcendentalism movement of mid-19th-century Concord, Massachusetts: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Alcott family (including Louisa May), and Henry Thoreau. Like many of Ives’ other works, it incorporates borrowings from hymns and popular song, in this case set within a sophisticated conceptual framework that adds Beethoven to the mix. Monumental and intricate, it’s given an assured and sensitive reading by Finnish pianist Joonas Ahonen. ..."
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