Concord Sonata

Album by Charles Ives & Per Salo

Concord Sonata is the second piano sonata by American composer Charles Ives, completed in 1919. The piece blends late-Romantic pianism with modernist techniques, including abrupt harmonic shifts, polytonality and incorporation of American vernacular material, and marks a shift in Ives's output toward experimental forms that influenced later American modernist composers.

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  1. 1.
    Piano Sonata no. 2 "Concord, Mass. 1840-1860": I. Emerson
    19:03
  2. 2.
    Piano Sonata no. 2 "Concord, Mass. 1840-1860": II. Hawthorne
    13:37
  3. 3.
    Piano Sonata no. 2 "Concord, Mass. 1840-1860": III. The Alcotts
    7:33
  4. 4.
    Piano Sonata no. 2 "Concord, Mass. 1840-1860": IV. Thoreau
    12:15

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