Pianist and conductor Stephen Drury performs Charles Ives’ complete sonatas for piano. These essential pieces from Ives’s canon stand out for their instrumental virtuosity.
Drury has performed throughout the world with a repertoire that stretches from Bach to Liszt to the music of today. He has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Barbican Centre and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus, and from Arkansas to Seoul. A champion of contemporary music, he has taken the sound of dissonance into remote corners of Pakistan, Greenland and Montana.
Program
Sonata No. 1
Adagio con moto
Allegro moderato; “In the Inn”
Adagio
“not for the lilies lying back in soft dress-circle cushion to lap up pretty velvet sound with their soft ears”
Allegro
Andante maestoso
Three Page Sonata
Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass. 1840 – 1860”
Emerson
Hawthorne
The Alcotts
Thoreau