PIANIST SHINES ON A SUMMER NIGHT

The Boston Globe;  July 17, 2004 ;     430 words ...LENOX - Pierre-Laurent Aimard has had an unusual career...and Charles Ives (the "Concord" Sonata). Pale and serious, he gave...not be as claustrophobic as Aimard made it seem - this really...Aimard's recent recording of the "Concord" Sonata (Warner Classics) may be...edges, ...

Review: CLASSICAL MUSIC Andrew Ball Wigmore Hall, London

The Independent - London;  February 20, 1997 ;     469 words ......commissioned new work by James Wood, followed by Ives's "Concord" Sonata - were often rewarding, indeed inspiring, suggesting once...Ball certainly has both the technique to deal with the "Concord' Sonata's torrents of notes and the musicianship to combine the...

Ives, Charles Edward

Who's Who in the Twentieth Century;      368 words ......eventually arranged for the printing of 114 Songs and his Concord Sonata (1911–15), with an elaborate programme note Essays...13) in Paris, Berlin, and Budapest. A performance of the Concord Sonata by the pianist John Kirkpatrick in 1939 brought Ives's music...

EASLEY BLACKWOOD IVES: Piano Sonata No. 2, `Concord, Mass., 1840-60'...

The Boston Globe;  December 5, 1991 ;     217 words ......unperformable." He was the second person to perform Ives' "Concord" Sonata, and for years had the reputation of playing it better than...optional viola part is unplayed. Blackwood couples the "Concord" Sonata with an equally compelling performance of the Copland Piano...

Exquisite performances close out festival

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  July 21, 2008 ;     446 words ......seamlessly played. Jensen ended the concert with Ives' massive "Concord" Sonata, written around the same time as the Kodaly, but worlds...Jensen is a natural when it comes to works such as the "Concord" Sonata. He tackled the nearly impossible here and gave a wondrously...

Top 3 most difficult pieces to play on the piano

Concord Monitor;  January 29, 2007 ;     263 words ......sound very delicate," Annicchiarico said. 3) Charles Ives's "Concord Sonata." That's Concord, Mass., not New Hampshire. A 20th century...on his Hammerklavier Sonata, Opus 106. They'd also ditch "Concord Sonata" for "Islamey" by Russian composer Mily Balakeriv. SARAH...

PHILHARMONIC INVITES A FEW UNEXPECTED GUESTS TO JOIN ITS TCHAIKOVSKY

The Boston Globe;  March 4, 2003 ;     388 words ......origins, and many of its notes, go back to Ives's formidable "Concord" Sonata, which is finished and boasts a performance history that...marvelous inventive orchestrator, fashioned the entire "Concord" Sonata into what he called Ives's "Concord Symphony." It's published...

Pianist revisits a decades-old triumph ; Kalish to playIves's...

The Boston Globe;  December 7, 2007 ;     700+ words ......than 30 years ago, Gilbert Kalish recorded Charles Ives's "Concord" Sonata, his epic portrait of New England Transcendentalism. The...dedicated to John Kirkpatrick, the pianist who discussed the "Concord" Sonata with Ives, premiered it in 1938, and first recorded it...

COMPOSER-PIANIST ANDRES PLAYS WITH SKILL AND ZEST

The Boston Globe;  June 30, 2006 ;     662 words ......impression with a daring and authoritative performance of Ives's "Concord" Sonata. What I didn't know until after Andres had played was that...s grandmother. You can order Andres's recording of the "Concord" Sonata and other discs from his website, www.andres.com. Singers...

CD REVIEW; Ives pieces have their ups, downs.(ENTERTAINMENT)

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  June 27, 2004 ;     340 words ......Fuchsberg CHARLES IVES: Concord Sonata, Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano; Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano. Warner Classics...But a new disc of the Concord Sonata by French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard offers a memorable encounter...of the mid-19th century. Concord is a deeply ...

From Mozart to MTV; Since being named the SPCO's newest artistic partner...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  April 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ......director. Looking back on that dinner meeting in Italy, Aimard said recently that he was impressed that Coppock...seemed to share what is almost an obsession with Aimard: creating well-balanced, interesting programs. Every...years since that meeting in Ferrara in October 2004, Aimard has gotten ...

A Concord Symphony

Fanfare;  July 1, 2008 ;     582 words ......spent 36 years working on his orchestration of Ives's "Concord" Sonata, completing what he calls A Concord Symphony in 1995. First...remain the stumbling block: I just can't hear this as the "Concord" Sonata, or as Ives. Oh, yes-that brief chorus on track 5 is the...

Ives and Beethoven, on Walden Pond

The Boston Globe;  November 5, 2008 ;     444 words ......Beethoven, calling his symphonies "perfect truths." In Ives's "Concord" Sonata, a sprawling masterwork that channels the expansive vision...Gardner Museum on Sunday afternoon: that is, to perform the "Concord" Sonata and Beethoven's epic "Hammerklavier" Sonata back to back...

Festival takes note of rich American piano repertoire.

Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  March 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ......along with such seminal 20th-century masterworks as Ives' Concord Sonata and Copland's Piano Variations - not to mention transcriptions...American pianist of international reputation who played the Concord Sonata, Horowitz says. But I can think of Canadian, French and...

Unfinished Ives Work Performed

NPR Morning Edition;  October 6, 1998 ;     700+ words ......that would bring him his first acclaim, what's come to be called the Concord Sonata. (BEGIN AUDIO CLIP OF THE CONCORD SONATA COMPOSED BY CHARLES IVES) The Concord Sonata was a tribute in four movements to literary figures who came from Concord...