Charles Ives was unique for his time as an American composer who wrote in the 'classical-music' tradition but also drew on American popular and traditional music idioms.
Composer Biography
Ives worked professionally as a life-insurance executive while creating an extraordinary body of compositions.
Composer Biography
Charles Ives, a New Englander, was taught by his father and then by the German-trained Horatio Parker at Yale.
Compositional Technique
The four violin sonatas by Charles Ives are conventional in their external structure, each having three contrasting movements, but are musically rooted in Protestant American hymnody.
Recording & Production
This recording features violinist Curt Thompson and pianist Rodney Waters, who also served as the recording producers.
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