This album exemplifies Joan Tower's far-reaching skills as a composer and her ability to successfully reach a wide audience. The story of the composition Made in America is almost as interesting as the work itself. Commissioned by a consortium of 65 orchestras (at least one from each of the 50 states), Made in America has reached a more widespread ...
All too often, box sets with the complete this or the collected that represent a by-the-pound mentality that's ultimately destructive to classical music, a substitute for intelligent program selection that entertains and instructs. The nine Bachianas Brasileiras of Heitor Villa-Lobos, however, may be the exception. Often excerpted (the two ...
Amy Beach's Piano Concerto in C sharp minor and her Symphony in E minor "Gaelic" are markedly different in purpose and character, but they complement each other rather well on this disc. Dark chromaticism and restless modulations mark the Piano Concerto as a work of late-Romantic turbulence and angst, yet Beach's rigorous control of her themes and ...
Before Elliott Carter developed his advanced theories and inimitable personal style in the 1950s, he was more closely identified with the American populist school of Copland, Piston, and Harris. The boisterous Holiday Overture (1944, rev. 1961) and the vigorously contrapuntal Symphony No. 1 (1942, rev. 1954) are fine examples of his youthfully ...
The Nashville Symphony has won considerable acclaim for its recordings of American orchestral music. This is unsurprising, in a sense, for musicians in the group by virtue of their location in a popular-music capital, have been immersed in vernacular American music for a long time -- and so much American classical music is nourished by popular ...
Anyone thinking that the eight Abraham Lincoln pieces offered here exhausted the store of musical representations of the 16th U.S. president will be quickly disabused; they represent a selection from about 90 pieces that were considered. For some composers, the Nashville Symphony and conductor Leonard Slatkin would have had a choice of multiple ...
A Dylan Thomas Trilogy constitutes the summation of composer John Corigliano's lifelong fascination with the work of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. It incorporates three existing Thomas settings, Fern Hill (1960) -- an early acknowledged entry for Corigliano and one of his best-known choral pieces -- and the orchestral songs Poem in October (1969) and ...
This 2007 recording of Amahl and the Night Visitors features the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and members of the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Conducted by Alastair Willis, it's a solid reading of the opera, but not one likely to supplant the original version of the 1951 production for NBC television, led by Thomas Schippers, who had an uncanny sense ...
Given the number of very fine recordings of Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortilèges, it's perhaps surprising that one of the very finest, most stylish, and idiomatic performances should have its roots firmly planted in the American heartland. Alastair Willis, leading the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, members of the Nashville Symphony Chorus, members of ...
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