Artist: Paul Zukofsky

Title: Charles Ives: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Vol. 1

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2012

Label: Folkways Records

UPC: 093070334625

Genre: Classical

Album Tracks

1. Sonata No. 1: Andante, Allegro Vivace
2. Sonata No. 1: Largo Cantabile
3. Sonata No. 1: Allegro
4. Sonata No. 2: Autumn: Adagio Maestoso, Allegro Moderato
5. Sonata No. 2: In the Barn: Presto, Allegro Moderato
6. Sonata No. 2: The Revival: Largo, Allegretto

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. 1 and No. 2. Evidently, the range of compositional devices Ives used-polytonality, atonality, complex multi-rhythms, tone clusters, twelve-tone rows, metrical modulation, and micro tonality-"disturbed or bewildered nearly all of [Ives'] contemporaries." But the sonatas present some of the most appealing and listenable material Ives produced. See also FW03347 Charles Ives: The Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Vol. 2.