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 ...

(soundbite of donald berman's performance of ives' "piano sonata no. 2, 'concord, mass., 1840-1860': i. emerson") LLOYD SCHWARTZ, BYLINE: The word that comes up in almost any discussion of Charles ...

He called Ives’ “Concord” sonata a sonata “like no other—by turns craggily dissonant, witty, haunting, and disarmingly simple. We begin with Emerson’s desire to take on the universe, ...

His ideas didn’t always land favorably. About the First Violin Sonata, which premiered in San Francisco in 1928 at a concert series designed by Henry Cowell, Ives recalled the day when he ...

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.

Many music lovers consider Ives, who died in 1954, to be the first truly great American composer. A new recording by pianist Donald Berman is a major addition to the Ives discography.