Jeremy Denk - Ives:Violin Sonatas/Piano Sonatas - Ives Denk - Import 2 CD

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Jeremy Denk

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Charles Ives:. Contents] (Songs to be included in the album) [CD1] Violin Sonata No. 4 "Children's Day at Camp Gathering Violin Sonata No. 3 Violin Sonata No. 2 Violin Sonata No. 1 [CD2] Piano Sonata No. 1 Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Massachusetts 1840-1860"* [Performer Jeremy Denk (Piano) Stefan Jackiw (Violin: CD1) Tara Helen O'Connor(Flute:CD2*) [Recorded. September 12-14, 2016 (violin sonata), 2010 (piano sonata) Performing Arts Center, State University of New York at Purchase Jeremy Denk, who describes Ives' music as "an original and unique American voice," has teamed up with Stefan Jackiw for all four Violin Sonatas and a remastered recording of the Piano Sonata that Denk made in 2010. Jeremy Denk was born in North Carolina in 1970.Denk, whose repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary music, has surprised us with albums that have never been performed before, such as Bach's "Goltberg Variations," contemporary American works, Ligeti and Beethoven, and interesting timeless combinations of music from 700 years of piano music, from Renaissance songs to contemporary piano works. The album is a surprise with its interesting and timeless combination of music selections, ranging from Renaissance songs to contemporary piano works, all played on the piano. The great clarity of the extraordinary piano in the Ives sonatas recorded here, the broad range of color in the violin, and the overall superbly integrated and coordinated interplay between the two musicians, reveal not the complex and eccentric style that Ives was known for as an eccentric Sunday composer (his day job was as an insurance executive), but a composer of the late 19th century soundscape. The music here is not the complex and eccentric style of Ives as an eccentric Sunday composer (whose day job was as an insurance executive), but rather a canvas of the soundscapes and mental landscapes of the late 19th century, and Ives's unique absolute joy is expressed in the music. The "Concord Sonata" incorporates elements of 12-tone/atonal modernism, based on Ives's "transcendentalism" (a religious and philosophical ethic based on the goodness of nature formed by four philosophers in Concord, Massachusetts), and it will take a long time to grasp the nature behind the superficial dissonance. It will take a long time to grasp the nature behind the superficial dissonance, but Denk attempts to do so with an unprecedentedly original interpretation that highlights the obvious beauty of the piece in a way that is understandable. Stefan Jackiw, who will perform with Denk in the violin sonata, was born in Boston in 1985. His influences include the great violinists Heifetz, Kreisler, Gounod Goumiot, and Milschtein, and his musical role models include cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who inspired him to begin playing the violin. Although he studied with Michel Eau Claire and former Cleveland Quartet first violinist Donald Weilerstein as a child, he did not attend art school but went to a regular high school and after high school to Harvard University, where he majored in psychology, graduating in 2007 with a BA degree. In parallel with that, he received an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music. (Warner Music)