CHARLES IVES - Piano Sonatas 1, 2 / Rene Eckhardt (CD)

Piano Sonata No. 1 (c. 1900-1910)
1 I. Adagio con moto - Andante con moto - Allegro risoluto "with a certain kind of poise and dignity but not exactly slower" Agitando "in a kind of furious way (hit hard)"/"ease down" Adagio cantabile 7:54
2 IIa. Allegro moderato (1st verse) - Andante (1st chorus) 1:36
3 IIb. "In the Inn": Allegro (2nd verse) - Meno mosso (2nd chorus) 4:01
4 III. Largo - Allegro - Largo 7:09
5 IVa. (crotchet = 88-100) "A study in 'Rag' for 5s, 3s and 2s together" 1:12
6 IVb. Allegro - Presto (as fast as possible) - Slow 3:01
7 V. Andante maestoso - A tempo (Andante or Allegretto) "plu animato" - Adagio cantabile - Allegro - Andante (or Allegro moderato con brio) 10:05

Piano Sonata No. 2 "Concord, Mass, 1840-1860" (1911-1915)
8 Emerson ("a composite picture or impression") 13:48
9 Hawthorne ("an 'extended fragment', reflecting 'some of his wilder, fantastical adventures into the half childlike, half fairy-like phantasmal realms'") 11:23
10 The Alcotts ("a sketch") 5:01
11 Thoreau ("an autumn day of Indian Summer at Walden") 10:24