On this Bridge disc, pianist Andrew Rangell puts together an interesting program consisting of music by Boston-based contemporary composer John McDonald sandwiched in between the Suite "Luciferian," Op. 25 (1919), by Carl Nielsen and the massive ragtime and Liszt-inflected First Sonata (1902-1910) of Charles Ives. Ives and Nielsen -- and, for that matter, Jean Sibelius -- are sometimes discussed within a shared context as romantics who yielded to the pull of innovation and arrived at a kind of modernism before the musical ...
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On this Bridge disc, pianist Andrew Rangell puts together an interesting program consisting of music by Boston-based contemporary composer John McDonald sandwiched in between the Suite "Luciferian," Op. 25 (1919), by Carl Nielsen and the massive ragtime and Liszt-inflected First Sonata (1902-1910) of Charles Ives. Ives and Nielsen -- and, for that matter, Jean Sibelius -- are sometimes discussed within a shared context as romantics who yielded to the pull of innovation and arrived at a kind of modernism before the musical world was quite ready for it, albeit working absolutely apart from one another. This appears to be the first time on disc that Nielsen and Ives have been programmed together; indeed, Nielsen's Suite "Luciferian" has heretofore only appeared within the context of Nielsen's other, rather slight, output for piano. The McDonald work, Meditation Before a Sonata: Dew Cloth, Dream Drapery, Op. 406 (2003), was conceived as a preamble to either of Ives' two large piano sonatas. Rangell's...
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