American Classics
American Classics is a new series from EMI which will feature, over several releases, recordings of as many different American composers as is possible. These will be single CD releases and, where possible, 2-CD sets, of music of different genres, including symphonies, concertos and purely orchestral works with some instrumental, chamber, song and opera.
Before the 20th century, there was very little in the way of American concert music. There was a handful of composers who were notable exceptions but these almost always followed the European compositional traditions. Not until the arrival of Charles Ives (1874-1954) could America boast an original, native-born, composer of it's own.
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Three rarely heard scores for American Ballet Theatre - George Antheil's blowsy Capital of the World, William Schuman's dramatic Undertow, Morton Gould's allusively effective Fall River Legend... — More…
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Samuel Barber
Barbara Hendricks
London Symphony Orchestra & Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin & Michael Tilson Thomas
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Aaron Copland
Bruce Hubbard
The Orchestra of St. Luke's, Dallas Symphony Orchestra & Orquestra Filharmónica de la Cuidad de Mexic, Dennis Russell Davies, Eduardo Mata & Enrique Bátiz
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Copland - Clarinet Concerto & Music for the Theatre
David Schifrin, Mark Hill & Neil Baum
New York Chamber Symphony, Gerard Schwarz
David Shifrin's account of the Clarinet Concerto is among the best, the opening radiant in timbre and showing a natural fluency of phrasing, the later jazzy elements also well caught. — More…
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Barber - Cello Sonata, Excursions & Summer Music
Alan Staphansky, Israela Margalit, Jeanne Baxtresser, Joseph Robinson, Stanley Drucker, Judith Le Clair & Philip Myers
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