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The Gathering Note
By Zach Carstensen
Jeremy Denk, Charles Ives’s 1st Piano Sonata
Every summer the Seattle Chamber Music Society invites a handful of musicians to play at the annual chamber music festival in Seattle and more recently in Redmond. The repertoire is mostly predictable. Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart and other household names populate the weekly concerts. However, the festival’s free recitals reach beyond the standard repertoire. New York based pianist Jeremy Denk has become the festival’s unofficial Ives specialist. In years past he has helped listeners understand Ives’s violin sonatas. This past summer, he navigated Ives less famous, patchwork 1st Piano Sonata and brought a willing, capacity crowd along with him. |
