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Leonard Bernstein was a tireless champion of American music during his conducting career, presenting many world-premieres and leaving an impressive body of recordings–most for Columbia
For a brief period in the late 50s, the Juilliard
Slatkin’s American music recordings are uniformly marvelous, and self-recommending. On
This has got to be the most intelligent, comprehensive, and
Most “concept” recordings are more interesting theoretically than they are audibly entertaining. This is one of the rare exceptions. All three of these works won
Perhaps this disc should bear the title “American Choral Music, Volume 2”, as this same choir–a world-class group in every respect–released a similarly interesting, well-chosen,
There are more impressive versions of some of these symphonies–Bernstein in No. 3, Slatkin in No. 10–but these performances maintain a very high standard throughout.
This coupling interestingly mirrors the popular pairing of Roy Harris and William Schuman’s Third symphonies (most recently done by Leonard Bernstein with the New York
William Schuman is one of those composers you want to like, but he doesn’t always make it easy. Both the tuneful Orchestral Song and the
This is remarkably difficult music to play, and the Albany strings and brass deserve enormous credit (alongside conductor David Alan Miller) for getting through all
