Mr. Joe Barron - Norristown, posted on web.
"Current listening: The Concord again, this time with Roberto Ramadori.
This is a remarkably controlled performance with a crisp articulation that keeps the inner voices clear no matter how dense the textures become.
The Hawthorne movement is peerless ("impareggiabile").
A shame the disk is not more widely available on web".
24th, October 2016.
My Cd disk Charles Edward Ives' "Concord-Sonata" is still available just writing to me at my e-mail : rbrt_ramadori@yahoo.com. I have almost new 100 copies of my cd!
I would love to send and to have my Cd all over in the World from Alaska to Midway!!!
Thx so much to have a listen to my "Concord-Sonata" !!!
Roberto Ramadori, pianist.
12th, January 2021.
lunedì 24 ottobre 2016
domenica 23 ottobre 2016
Andrew Harey - Porter Ranch, Los Angeles California.
"Ives is a composer whose work I believe both encourages and benefits from different interpretations, and from what I've heard from Sound Cloud, yours has some truly unique elements while staying true the spirit of the composer".
... about my "Concord-Sonata"...
"... I needed several listenings before I felt comfortable forming an opinion..."
"On my first time listening to your Cd "Concord-Sonata", I was immediately taken by the deliberate pace of the "Emerson" movement. At first, I found myself almost getting impatient...it was much slower than I was used to. But then I began to see how this actually heightened the tension of the music. "Emerson" is in my mind always about the struggle of the philosopher in its thoughts. Your interpretation of the music seems to intensify the tension in the struggle...my initial "impatience" was in part a reaction to this tension. On my later listenings, I had a better understanding of the music and I found the experience more satisfying. I am impressed that you were able to keep the music together at the slow pace, especially near the middle of the movement when the notes at times hang in the air. "Hawthorne" definitely benefited from the slower pace. I feel sometimes some artists "rush through" this movement. You did not rush the music, and as a result it acquired a very "jazzy" quality. Strangely enough, I was getting impressions of Thelonious Monk...the musical quotations felt more like jazz variations on old standards. I really liked this movement, and it gave me a new appreciation for "Hawthorne". "Thoreau" was immersively trascendent...while your deliberate pace added tension to "Emerson", it added tranquility to "Thoreau". I became absorbed in the music, and I began to ponder the juxtaposition of the opening and closing movements of "Concord-Sonata". Thank you ... for giving us a unique, thoughtful and very successful interpretation of Ives' music".
3rd, August, 2016.
"Ives is a composer whose work I believe both encourages and benefits from different interpretations, and from what I've heard from Sound Cloud, yours has some truly unique elements while staying true the spirit of the composer".
... about my "Concord-Sonata"...
"... I needed several listenings before I felt comfortable forming an opinion..."
"On my first time listening to your Cd "Concord-Sonata", I was immediately taken by the deliberate pace of the "Emerson" movement. At first, I found myself almost getting impatient...it was much slower than I was used to. But then I began to see how this actually heightened the tension of the music. "Emerson" is in my mind always about the struggle of the philosopher in its thoughts. Your interpretation of the music seems to intensify the tension in the struggle...my initial "impatience" was in part a reaction to this tension. On my later listenings, I had a better understanding of the music and I found the experience more satisfying. I am impressed that you were able to keep the music together at the slow pace, especially near the middle of the movement when the notes at times hang in the air. "Hawthorne" definitely benefited from the slower pace. I feel sometimes some artists "rush through" this movement. You did not rush the music, and as a result it acquired a very "jazzy" quality. Strangely enough, I was getting impressions of Thelonious Monk...the musical quotations felt more like jazz variations on old standards. I really liked this movement, and it gave me a new appreciation for "Hawthorne". "Thoreau" was immersively trascendent...while your deliberate pace added tension to "Emerson", it added tranquility to "Thoreau". I became absorbed in the music, and I began to ponder the juxtaposition of the opening and closing movements of "Concord-Sonata". Thank you ... for giving us a unique, thoughtful and very successful interpretation of Ives' music".
3rd, August, 2016.
lunedì 19 gennaio 2015
"Concord-Sonata"
Registrazione nella notte del 14-15 maggio 1998, Pieve San Martino, Palazzo Pignano - Pandino (Cremona) - Italy.
Pubblicazione Cd 31 ottobre 2002
Casa Discografica Symposion Trento - Italy
Label : 1SCL0602
Pagina Web di inserimento del mio Cd fra i 32 migliori Cd al mondo dal 1945 ad oggi!!!!
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/charlesives/info
Soddisfazione infinita di un sogno realizzato!!!
roberto. 10th, august, 2019.
Discography | charlesives.org
Charles Ives Society, Yale University of Music, New Haven, CT.
Charles Edward Ives
Registrazione nella notte del 14-15 maggio 1998, Pieve San Martino, Palazzo Pignano - Pandino (Cremona) - Italy.
Pubblicazione Cd 31 ottobre 2002
Casa Discografica Symposion Trento - Italy
Label : 1SCL0602
Pagina Web di inserimento del mio Cd fra i 32 migliori Cd al mondo dal 1945 ad oggi!!!!
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/charlesives/info
Soddisfazione infinita di un sogno realizzato!!!
roberto. 10th, august, 2019.
Discography | charlesives.org
Charles Ives Society, Yale University of Music, New Haven, CT.
sabato 9 agosto 2014
Joe Barron review ... "I can see myself spending more and more time with this one "Concord".
by Joe Barron
"... . It's an exciting thoughtful performance... . Roberto approaches the "Concord" almost like Bach - not in a way that dries it out, but in way that clarifies the textures and equalizes the independent voices.
I was especially impressed with his treatment of the Hawthorne movement, which has in general been my least favorite of the four.
The timings are longer than on most other recordings. Roberto brings in the piece at just 12 seconds shy of any hour, an almost epic duration and the music only accumulates power as it goes on.
I have at least a dozen recordings of the "Concord", and I can see myself spending more and more time with this one."
Liberated Dissonance
26th, December 2012
http://liberateddissonance.blogspot.it/2012/12/another-concord.html
"... . It's an exciting thoughtful performance... . Roberto approaches the "Concord" almost like Bach - not in a way that dries it out, but in way that clarifies the textures and equalizes the independent voices.
I was especially impressed with his treatment of the Hawthorne movement, which has in general been my least favorite of the four.
The timings are longer than on most other recordings. Roberto brings in the piece at just 12 seconds shy of any hour, an almost epic duration and the music only accumulates power as it goes on.
I have at least a dozen recordings of the "Concord", and I can see myself spending more and more time with this one."
Liberated Dissonance
26th, December 2012
http://liberateddissonance.blogspot.it/2012/12/another-concord.html
Sounds' Falls - Booklet Cd
SOUNDS' FALLS - AMERICAN GRAND PIANO
George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber
VELUT LUNA CDVL 186 (2010)
😊😊😊
...my American friends...Paul!
Paul Howe - Maple Shade, New Jersey
about my "Concord-Sonata"...
"I listened to your recording last night after dinner and then again this morning and I find it completely overwhelming. First of all, it is beautifully recorded with just enough resonance around the piano and lots of luscious detail. More important , I never once thought, "Hey, this guy is some virtuoso! Wow, listen to him go!" I felt through every measure of the music that the performer was at the service of the composer and admired and loved every moment of the piece. But also there was a great sense of overall architecture and purpose, which to my mind is the greatest challenge in Ives no matter how technically proficient the artist who interprets him may be. I heard many little details here and there that I had not noticed in the seven other recordings I own, which means your vision of the work is individualistic at the same time as it respects the composer. I think my craggily eccentric and thoroughly democratic countryman, Charles Ives, would thoroughly approve. Bravo, Maestro!"
8th, August 2014
about my "Concord-Sonata"...
"I listened to your recording last night after dinner and then again this morning and I find it completely overwhelming. First of all, it is beautifully recorded with just enough resonance around the piano and lots of luscious detail. More important , I never once thought, "Hey, this guy is some virtuoso! Wow, listen to him go!" I felt through every measure of the music that the performer was at the service of the composer and admired and loved every moment of the piece. But also there was a great sense of overall architecture and purpose, which to my mind is the greatest challenge in Ives no matter how technically proficient the artist who interprets him may be. I heard many little details here and there that I had not noticed in the seven other recordings I own, which means your vision of the work is individualistic at the same time as it respects the composer. I think my craggily eccentric and thoroughly democratic countryman, Charles Ives, would thoroughly approve. Bravo, Maestro!"
8th, August 2014
...my American friends...Richard and Michael!
Richard Fenster - La Mesa, California
about my "Concord-Sonata"...
"I listened once and I was taken over by the emotion that I was conveyed. Yet it did not sound overly romantic. Very clear and I could hear individual notes and lined with no over pedaling."
12th, February 2014
Michael Kolesa - Ontario, Canada
about my "Concord-Sonata"...
"Although I have at least 8 other recording of the "Concord" in my collection, your performance is quite special! In it you uncover an emotional heart to this piece that brings out a real poignancy to the interpretation. It will be a performance that I return to again and again and I'm sure the insights in it will only increase as I gain additional familiarity with it."
30th, July 2014
about my "Concord-Sonata"...
"I listened once and I was taken over by the emotion that I was conveyed. Yet it did not sound overly romantic. Very clear and I could hear individual notes and lined with no over pedaling."
12th, February 2014
Michael Kolesa - Ontario, Canada
about my "Concord-Sonata"...
"Although I have at least 8 other recording of the "Concord" in my collection, your performance is quite special! In it you uncover an emotional heart to this piece that brings out a real poignancy to the interpretation. It will be a performance that I return to again and again and I'm sure the insights in it will only increase as I gain additional familiarity with it."
30th, July 2014
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