--- In charlesives@yahoogroups.com, Kirk McElhearn <kirkmc@...> wrote:
>
> Aside from the tempo, it's interesting, and I'd have liked to read the
> liner nots from the CD. Do you have the disc? I just downloaded it
> from eMusic, so there's no info. I'd like to read whatever
> justification he may have for these tempi.

Here is an excerpt of the liner note of the cd written by Jonathan
Elliott.

« The Concord Sonata represents, in its four movements, a virtual
synopsis of the ivesian view . It is a full scale gargantuan work of
the same epic proportions as Beehoven's Hammerklavier' Sonata .It is
technically daunting for the pianist who attempts it. It brings
together material from a broad spectrum of different worlds:
functional tonality , ragtime, polytonality, atonality, polyrhythm .
It seems almost overwhelming in the exuberance of its ideas. Various
textures are juxtaposed; the music makes rapid shifts in mood; yet it
is all stamped with the thorny, highly personal stamp of its
composer.Rather than verge on incoherence, this soanta seems to
perfect sense, yet not in any typical way . »

But Gorisek don't explain his playing style in the liner note.

Patrick