Piano Sonata No. 2 'Concord' / The Celestial Railroad

Album by Charles Ives & Steven Mayer

Piano Sonata No. 2 'Concord' / The Celestial Railroad is a piano sonata by American composer Charles Ives, completed in 1915. The work blends late-Romantic pianism with early modernist techniques, featuring complex rhythms, dense polytonality and allusions to American musical idioms, and represents a development in Ives's exploration of large-scale, programme-driven piano composition.

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  1. 1.
    Sonata No. 2 for Piano, 'Concord, Mass.: 1840-60': I. 'Emerson'
    18:30
  2. 2.
    Sonata No. 2 for Piano, 'Concord, Mass.: 1840-60': II. 'Hawthorne'
    12:19
  3. 3.
    Sonata No. 2 for Piano, 'Concord, Mass.: 1840-60': III. 'The Alcotts'
    6:26
  4. 4.
    Sonata No. 2 for Piano, 'Concord, Mass.: 1840-60': IV. 'Thoreau'
    13:23
  5. 5.
    Varied Air and Variations
    7:33
  6. 6.
    The Celestial Railroad
    9:28
  7. 7.
    Four Transcriptions from 'Emerson', No. 1
    4:53

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