Word: sonata
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IVES: PIANO SONATA NO. I (1902-1910) (RCA Victor). Charles Ives was such a rebel that his music bears little resemblance to the placid mainstream of turn-of-the-century American sounds. Yet, as demonstrated in this intriguing recording of his First Piano Sonata, he is no composer to snoot. The work is raw, unpolished, sometimes uproariously funny; its New World vigor and intelligence cannot help being appealing. Pianist William Masselos imparts the work's spirit with appropriate improvisational candor...
MOZART: FANTASIA AND SONATA IN C MINOR AND SONATA NO. 8 IN A MINOR (Westminster). Daniel Barenboim, the peripatetic Israeli prodigy who, at 24, travels all over the world meeting the insatiable demand for recitals, plays three of the most brilliant, and saddest, of Mozart's works for the piano. The album offers great music well played-which is something to cheer about...
...first half of the program concentrated on music of Francis Poulenc. The Sonata for oboe and piano dates from 1963 but is firmly rooted in the French neo-classicism of the twenties and thirties. The second movement even sounds a little like Gershwin...
...CLIBURN: BEETHOVEN "LES ADIEUX" SONATA; MOZART SONATA IN C (RCA Victor). Cliburn's delivery of Beethoven's sonata of cheerful goodbyes and of Mozart's sonata of precise jollity is deft, fey and spacious, but Beethoven and Mozart have been known to reveal greater depths under more scholarly hands...
...Second Sonata is an amazing piece of music. Subtitled "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860," its four movements are labelled, respectively, "Emerson," "Hawthrone." "The Alcotts," and "Thoreau." In "Hawthorne" Ives unleashes all his powers of satire as he incorporates Debussy-like ragtime, fragments of Protestant hymns, and purposely misharmonized American bombast -- "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," for example--into an acid brew that recalls the "This Scherzo Is a Joke" movement of the Piano Trio. Mendelssohn and the Beethoven Fifth make their appearance in "The Alcotts," a merciless parody of all the cliches of nineteenth-century musical sentimentality. Of the four...