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Martin Perry performs Binkerd & Ives

Martin Perry

Martin Perry performs Binkerd & Ives

Format: CD
Label: Bridge
UPC: 0090404939020
Catnr: BRIDG 9390
Release date: 04 September 2013
1 CD
 
Label
Bridge
UPC
0090404939020
Catalogue number
BRIDG 9390
Release date
04 September 2013
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Composer(s)
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About the album

The featured music on this recording is the first recorded performance of Ives’s Concord Sonata in the final edition made by John Kirkpatrick, the legendary pianist who gave the New York premiere of the sonata in 1939. Although the concert was the culmination of an extended period of study for Kirkpatrick, it was only the beginning of his life-long involvement with the Concord Sonata as both a performer and an editor. Over the decades Kirkpatrick made at least five separate editorial efforts at the work. There is a lost edition from the 1930s; an abandoned effort to help Ives with the second edition in the early 1940s; one he prepared in 1953; a retouched copy of the second edition, and a final edition, carried out in the 1980s, a culmination of a life’s contemplation of Ives’s labyrinthine sonata. This recording by Martin Perry marks the first time that Kirkpatrick’s final edition has been commercially released. Kirkpatrick’s take on the sonata by the 1980s went far beyond what many would expect from an edition: Ives’s thick dissonances have been replaced at points with pure octave and fifths, and the meter of the work has been meticulously notated by Kirkpatrick. In a speech he gave on the occasion of his eightieth birthday Kirkpatrick concluded by saying that he found that Ives’s music had arrived at a “strange stopping place” because of his “failure to grant his masterpieces certain rights of their own.” Although, strictly speaking, all of the notes in this edition are Ives’s, drawing from more than 15 copies of the work which Ives had marked up, Kirkpatrick’s own editorial hand guides the Sonata towards a sound that is decidedly romantic compared to Ives’s often harsh modernist sound.

Artist(s)

Martin Perry

Martin Perry is an American pianist who, while well-versed in many genres, has established himself as a specialist in modernist music. Raised in Sacramento, California, Perry studied piano with Patricia Taylor Lee, Thomas Schumacher, and Adele Marcus (a pupil of Russian pianist Josef Lhévinne), and attended the University of Maryland and Juilliard. Following a debut recital at Carnegie Hall, Perry toured the United States. He has performed with the Boston Pops, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Arkansas Symphony, the Florida Philharmonic, the Baltic Philharmonic, and the Moscow Philharmonic. He has performed chamber music with the Cassatt Quartet and the DaPonte Quartet and is a member of the Nordica Trio. His wide repertoire includes early Romantic works by Mendelssohn, Chopin, and...
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Martin Perry is an American pianist who, while well-versed in many genres, has established himself as a specialist in modernist music. Raised in Sacramento, California, Perry studied piano with Patricia Taylor Lee, Thomas Schumacher, and Adele Marcus (a pupil of Russian pianist Josef Lhévinne), and attended the University of Maryland and Juilliard. Following a debut recital at Carnegie Hall, Perry toured the United States. He has performed with the Boston Pops, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Arkansas Symphony, the Florida Philharmonic, the Baltic Philharmonic, and the Moscow Philharmonic. He has performed chamber music with the Cassatt Quartet and the DaPonte Quartet and is a member of the Nordica Trio. His wide repertoire includes early Romantic works by Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Schumann, which he performs on fortepiano, and he devotes much of his time promoting the 20th century works of Charles Ives, Alan Hovhaness, and Charles Tomlinson Griffes. He has recorded solo piano music for Bridge, and writes a blog on music, Con Spirito.

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Charles Ives

Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though his music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, he came to be regarded as an 'American original' He combined the American popular and church-music traditions of his youth with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatory elements, and quarter tones, foreshadowing many musical innovations of the 20th century. Sources of Ives' tonal imagery are hymn tunes and traditional songs, the town band at holiday parade, the fiddlers at Saturday...
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Charles Edward Ives was an American modernist composer. He is one of the first American composers of international renown, though his music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, he came to be regarded as an "American original" He combined the American popular and church-music traditions of his youth with European art music, and was among the first composers to engage in a systematic program of experimental music, with musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatory elements, and quarter tones, foreshadowing many musical innovations of the 20th century.
Sources of Ives' tonal imagery are hymn tunes and traditional songs, the town band at holiday parade, the fiddlers at Saturday night dances, patriotic songs, sentimental parlor ballads, and the melodies of Stephen Foster.

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