** condition: NM/NM ** Perfect copy with gatefold cover of the original Time Records release in its Series 2000 in mono of a superb performance by Aloys Kontarsky (one of Stockhausen's main performers in the 60's and 70's) of this monument of American avant-garde music by Charles Ives.
"The Concord Sonata by Charles Ives is without doubt the most iconic American piano sonatas. Its epic length (appr. 50 minutes), its extreme technical difficulties and its highly unusual form and writing make it one of the greatest challenges for any performing pianist. The sonata’s 4 movements represent figures associated with the Transcendentalism movement: Ralph Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bronson and Louisa Alcott and Henry David Thoreau. The piece demonstrates Ives' experimental tendencies: much of it is written without barlines, the harmonies are advanced, and in the second movement there is a cluster chord created by depressing the piano's keys with a piece of wood. The piece also amply demonstrates Ives' fondness for musical quotation (especially Beethoven’s 5th)."