Charles Ives: The Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Vol. 2

Charles Ives has grown into one of the most important American classical composers of international distinction, but it wasn’t always like this: Ives was frustrated by indifferent audiences and ambivalent critics throughout his entire career and most of his life. Violinist Paul Zukofsky and pianist Gilbert Kalish perform Sonatas No. 3 and No. 4. Evidently, the range of compositional devices Ives used—polytonality, atonality, complex multi-rhythms, tone clusters, twelve-tone rows, metrical modulation, and microtonality—“disturbed or bewildered nearly all of [Ives’] contemporaries.” But the sonatas present some of the most appealing and listenable material Ives produced. See also FW03346 Charles Ives: The Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Vol. 1.

Track Listing

101	Sonata No. 3: I. Adagio Paul Zukofsky and Gilbert Kalish	14:10
102	Sonata No. 3: II. Allegro Paul Zukofsky and Gilbert Kalish	04:14
201	Sonata No. 3: III. Adagio cantabile, Andante con spirito Paul Zukofsky and Gilbert Kalish	10:38
202	Sonata No. 4: "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting": I. Allegro Paul Zukofsky and Gilbert Kalish	02:17
203	Sonata No. 4: "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting": II. Largo Paul Zukofsky and Gilbert Kalish	06:06
204	Sonata No. 4: "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting": III. Allegro Paul Zukofsky and Gilbert Kalish	01:48