SCHWARTZ: The "Concord Sonata" gets its name from the American Transcendentalists, the great 19th century writers, intellectuals and abolitionists Ives admired who lived in Concord, Mass.

He called Ives’ “Concord” sonata a sonata “like no other—by turns craggily dissonant, witty, haunting, and disarmingly simple.

In honor of Ives' 150th birth anniversary, Nonesuch is releasing a two-disc set of Denk's previous recordings of the Violin Sonatas, with Stefan Jackiw, and, newly re-mastered, his manly 2010 ...

Ives believed in the utopian possibilities of music. So it’s no surprise that his Piano Sonata No. 2, subtitled “Concord, Mass., 1840-1860,” is inspired by American transcendentalists.

Denk’s was striking, focusing on Charles Ives’ “Concord” sonata. He called it a summation of the early 20th-century composer’s unique approach to music, referencing everything from Beethoven and Bach ...

SCHWARTZ: The "Concord Sonata" gets its name from the American Transcendentalists, the great 19th century writers, intellectuals and abolitionists Ives admired who lived in Concord, Mass.