October 20, 1874, Danbury - May 19, 1954, New York
"There can be nothing exclusive in substantial art. It comes directly from the heart of life experience and thinking about life and living life."
Charles E. Ives
At the center of Charles Ives’s piano works stand his piano sonatas. Most famous is especially his Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass. 1840-1860" from the years 1916-1919. His monumental First Sonata (1915-1916) and the eccentric "Three-Page Sonata" (1910-1911) are also extraordinary solo works for piano. In piano chamber music, four violin sonatas, three pieces for piano quintet and especially the piano trio (1909/1910, rev. 1915) represent Ives’s uncompromising musical thinking. Numerous other smaller piano works testify to his lifelong creative exploration of the piano.
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"But perhaps music was not meant to satisfy the curious certainty of man. Perhaps it is better to hope that music can always be a transcendent language in the most extravagant sense."
Charles E. Ives
Piano Sonata No.2, "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860" (1916-1919)
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Stephen Drury, piano; Jessi Rosinski, flute
Three-Page Sonata (1910-1911, rev. ca. 1925-1926)
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Steffen Schleiermacher, piano
Study No.22 (1909)
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Donald Berman, piano
Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for 2 pianos (1923-1924)
No.1 Largo: youtube_ives_quartertonepieces_1
No. 2 Allegro: youtube_quartertonepieces_2
No.3: Chorale: youtube_ives_quartertone_pieces_3
Alexei Lubimov & Pierre-Laurent Aimar, piano
Ives plays Ives - The complete recordings of Charles Ives at the piano
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An extraordinary sound document with all of Ives' own recorded compositions!
Album released by "Anthology of Records, Inc." (2006)
Trio for violin, piano, and violoncello (1904/1911)
1. Moderato: 
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2. Presto (TSIAJ): Ivestrio_2.mp3
3. Moderato con moto: Ivestrio_3a.mp3
Trio Animæ: Tomas Dratva, piano; Jean-Christophe Gawrysiak, violin; Dieter Hilpert, cello
Recording: Bulle, Switzerland, 1997
This recording was released in 1997 on the Cascavelle label and is now out of print.
„Majority" (1921)
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Robert Gardner, baritone; Eric Trudel, piano
„Songs my daughter taught me"
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Mary Phillips, mezzo-soprano. J.J. Penna, Piano
Many more informations can be found on the Charles Ives Society website:
http://www.charlesives.org/
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Charles E. Ives: Composer of the Week No. 23 / September 2018