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Mon 24 Dec, 2018:
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Wed 22 Aug, 2018:
Piston: Symphony No 6; Samuel Jones: Symphony No 3, Palo Duro Canyon; Stephen Albert: Symphony No 2
No symphonic tradition has coalesced into a recognisable signature so quickly or securely as that of America in the last century, as evidenced by the...
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Fri 17 Aug, 2018:
Diamond: Symphony No 6; Rounds for String Orchestra; Romeo and Juliet
Composed in the decade from 1944, the three works here – examples of 20th-century American symphonic music at its most acutely lyrical, relaxed and...
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Fri 18 Aug, 2017:
Bernstein: Complete Solo Works for Piano
Here’s something to whet the appetite for 2018’s Bernstein centenary celebrations – a first recording of the complete solo piano works more...
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Mon 17 Jul, 2017:
Copland: Symphony No 3 (original version); Three Latin American Sketches
A quarter of a century after his Saint Louis Symphony recording on RCA, Leonard Slatkin returns to Copland’s Third Symphony in the company of the...
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Fri 05 May, 2017:
Great American Sonatas – Bernstein: Piano Sonata; Copland: Piano Sonata; Harrison: Piano Sonata No 3, Largo Ostinato; Ives: Three-Page Sonata, The Celestial Railroad
If the sonata represents the piano repertoire’s proverbial Everest, Nathan Williamson’s intelligently vivid recital suggests there is more than...
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Tue 18 Oct, 2016:
Wine Dark Sea – Dan Welcher: Spumante; Donald Grantham: J'ai été au bal; Frank Ticheli: Concerto for Clarinet; John Mackey: Wine Dark Sea (Symphony for Band)
Seventy minutes of wind-band music includes the album’s title piece, Wine-Dark Sea (the hyphen appears only within the booklet) by John Mackey, a...
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Thu 13 Oct, 2016:
Copland: Appalachian Spring (Complete Ballet); Hear ye! Hear ye!
Composed for the American dancer and choreographer Ruth Page (1899-1991), Copland's 1934 ballet Hear ye! Hear ye! is set in a Chicago courtroom, its...
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Mon 10 Oct, 2016:
Puts: Symphony No 2; River's Rush; Flute Concerto
In its unabashed emotion, high drama and cinematic sweep, the music of Kevin Puts (b.1972) is recognisably American. Certainly it owes a debt to the...
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Tue 04 Oct, 2016:
Copland: Symphony for Organ and Orchestra; Orchestral Variations; Short Symphony; Symphonic Ode
This darkly ravishing second volume in John Wilson’s welcome Copland survey for Chandos delves into the nooks and crannies of his orchestral work to...
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Fri 07 Aug, 2015:
Herrmann: Souvenirs de voyage; Gershwin: George Gershwin's Song-Book; Promenade (Walking the Dog); Lullaby; Waxman: Four scenes from childhood; Copland: Waltz and Celebration from Billy the Kid
Written in 1967 and revised eight years later, Bernard Herrmann's Souvenirs de voyage is a wonderfully mellifluous and deeply touching creation. A...
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Wed 18 Feb, 2015:
Road Trip – Adams: Chamber Symphony; Copland: Appalachian Spring (Suite); Ives: The Housatonic at Stockbridge; Trad: Reynardine; The Brown Girl (arr Nico Muhly); Paul Simon: Hearts and Bones (arr Muhly)
Make no mistake, there's much to enjoy in the Aurora Orchestra's 'Road Trip' across America. It's a varied and sparky sequence comprising imaginative...
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Mon 29 Sep, 2014:
Bartók: Dance Suite; Copland: Appalachian Spring (Suite); Stravinsky: The Firebird (Suite, 1919 version); Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony has a growing catalogue that includes all of the Beethoven symphonies alongside other orchestral standards; this...
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Wed 13 Aug, 2014:
The Beatles arranged by Luboš Krtička for String Quartet
“If you want to know about the Sixties,” Aaron Copland memorably declared, “play the music of The Beatles.” In pop music’s pantheon, you...
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