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Composer: Charles Ives
- Violin Sonata No. 1
- Violin Sonata No. 2
- Violin Sonata No. 3
- Violin Sonata No. 4 "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting"
Hilary Hahn, violin
Valentina Lisitsa, piano
Date: 2009
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
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When a star such as Hilary Hahn takes on the Ives violin-and-piano sonatas it has to be special. These four works came at the peak of Ives’s composing career, in the years around the First World War. He had reservations about the Third Sonata because he felt he’d weakened after a professional violinist criticised his dissonant, unplayable music. The Fourth is a curiosity because Ives quotes some of his father’s own music in the first movement, and it took Ives back to his own childhood.
Recordings of these sonatas started with 78s but the most authoritative, after some years of playing them from memory, was an LP with Daniel Stepner and that great Ivesian John Kirkpatrick on Musical Heritage in 1982. There have been several since. Today the competition for Hahn comes from Curt Thompson and Rodney Waters (Naxos, 9/04). Thompson did a doctorate on these pieces so knows his Ives, and the performances are thoroughly idiomatic, sometimes wayward, but with magical, transcendental soft passages.
In comparison, Hahn may have less tonal variety but she and Lisitsa, accurately balanced, are completely efficient in every way. They understand the Ives idiom, saturated with hymn-tunes; they swing with the best of them; and their performances are as convincing as anything on offer.
-- Peter Dickinson, Gramophone
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Charles Ives (October 20, 1874 – May 19, 1954) was an American actuary, businessman, and modernist composer. He was amongst the earliest American composers to achieve recognition on a global scale. His experimentation foreshadowed many musical innovations that were later more widely adopted during the 20th century. Ives composed four numbered symphonies as well as a number of works with the word 'Symphony' in their titles. He left behind material for an unfinished Universe Symphony, which he was unable to complete after two decades. Ives also composed two string quartets and other works of chamber music.
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Hilary Hahn (born November 27, 1979) is an American violinist. She studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Jascha Brodsky, Jaime Laredo, Felix Galimir and Gary Graffman. A three-time Grammy Award winner, she has performed throughout the world as a soloist with leading orchestras and conductors, and as a recitalist. Hahn is an avid supporter of contemporary classical music, and several composers have written works for her, including Edgar Meyer, Jennifer Higdon, Antón García Abril, Einojuhani Rautavaara, and Lera Auerbach. Her violin is an 1864 copy of Paganini's Cannone made by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.
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Valentina Lisitsa (born 1973) is a Ukrainian-American pianist. Born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, she attended the Lysenko music school and the Kiev Conservatory, where she studied under Ludmilla Tsvierko. In 1991 Lisitsa and her future husband moved to the United States to further their careers as concert pianists. Lisitsa independently launched her career on social media, without initially signing with a tour promoter or record company. By 2012, she was among the most frequently viewed pianists on YouTube. Lisitsa has recorded for Decca, Naïve, Audiofon, CiscoMusic, VAI, and her own label QOR.
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