Piano Sonata no. 2 “Concord” / Violin Sonata no. 4 “Children's Day at the Camp Meeting”

Album by Charles Ives & Joonas Ahonen & Pekka Kuusisto

Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord" and Violin Sonata No. 4 "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting" are compositions by American composer Charles Ives, written in the 1910s (the Concord Sonata was completed around 1915 and the Violin Sonata No. 4 dates from c.1911). Both works draw on American hymnody and Transcendentalist literary inspiration, employing polytonality, dense contrapuntal textures and rhythmic experimentation that mark a mature phase in Ives's compositional development and in early 20th-century American modernism.