American Classics

[Beef Oven!]

Carter: Three Occasions, Violin Concerto, Concerto for Orchestra; Ole Böhn/London Sinfonietta/KNUSSEN (EMI American Classics)
Feldman: Crippled Symmetry; California EAR Unit (BRIDGE)

... an unlikely pairing, perhaps, but one which worked remarkably effectively.

[teamsaint]

Cindy Mctee.
Symphony no1.

Unmistakably american, and well worth a listen.

http://wiltshire.naxosmusiclibrary.com/catalogue/item.asp?cid=8.559765

like so much else, would make a great piece to hear live.



EDIT. It seems she is the present Mrs L Slatkin as well as being an eminent academic, FWIW.

[Beef Oven!]

Ned Rorem - symphony #3

[teamsaint]

This thread need a kick up the backside !

Walter Piston . Violin Concerto no 2.

NSO Ukraine/Kuchar/Buswell.

[teamsaint]

American Piano Sonatas Volume 2. EMI Classics.

Charles Tomlinson Griffes. Sonata in F# Minor

Roger Sessions. Second Sonata.

Charles Ives Sonata #1.

Interesting disc. The Grieffs is well worthy of the lead spot. An engaging, perhaps slightly eclectic work, with definite signs of Debussy influence. A life cut tragically short, he died aged 35 in 1920.

The Sessions , is also engaging but not too far from his usual somewhat acerbic style.

The Ives is a monster,, that needs more time from me.
A recommended listen.

Anybody got Vol 1 ?

[Beef Oven!]

American Piano Sonatas Volume 2. EMI Classics.

Charles Tomlinson Grieffs. Sonata in F# Minor

Roger Sessions. Second Sonata.

Charles Ives Sonata #1.

Interesting disc. The Grieffs is well worthy of the lead spot. An engaging, perhaps slightly eclectic work, with definite signs of Debussy influence. A life cut tragically short, he died aged 35 in 1920.

The Sessions , is also engaging but not too far from his usual somewhat acerbic style.

The Ives is a monster,, that needs more time from me.
A recommended listen.

Anybody got Vol 1 ?

An interesting sounding disc that I'm surprised I don't own!!

Sessions really is a neglected composer for me - I need to put that right.

[teamsaint]

An interesting sounding disc that I'm surprised I don't own!!

Sessions really is a neglected composer for me - I need to put that right.

Absolutely with you. I love what I have heard of his, but don't seem to have got round to listening to enough.

Here is the Griffes:

[Beef Oven!]

Absolutely with you. I love what I have heard of his, but don't seem to have got round to listening to enough.

It's on my 'to do' list for this coming week.

[ahinton]

Sessions really is a neglected composer for me - I need to put that right.

He is for most people, including Americans. Don't ask me why, as I have not the slightest idea.

[teamsaint]

He is for most people, including Americans. Don't ask me why, as I have not the slightest idea.

Would you care to suggest some good or interesting places to start with Sessions, AH ?
The 8th Symphony is about all I have listened to in any depth. And it's superb stuff indeed.

[Beef Oven!]

He is for most people, including Americans. Don't ask me why, as I have not the slightest idea.

Bob, why is Sessions a neglected composer for most people, including Americans?

[teamsaint]

Bob? who the ...............

[ahinton]

Would you care to suggest some good or interesting places to start with Sessions, AH ?
The 8th Symphony is about all I have listened to in any depth. And it's superb stuff indeed.

That, as well as the 9th symphony, Concerto for Orchestra, 2nd and 5th symphonies, 3rd piano sonata - there's a great deal of riches out there and the very fact of that runs counter to the still widely held impression that Roger Sessions was, like Milton Babbitt, a dull intellectual academic as a composer (and neither of them was anything of the kind)...

[Bryn]

An interesting sounding disc that I'm surprised I don't own!!

Sessions really is a neglected composer for me - I need to put that right.

Are you quite sure you don't? The two volumes have also appeared as a Virgin Classics double album:



which is the format I have them in. An interesting collection of sonatas, but the performances of the Ives, which are the works represented which I am most familiar with, make me doubt whether the other works receive of the best either. The Ives performances just feel to me like Rollo would have had them played.

[BBMmk2]

Ah that's a pity, Bryn. looked liked a stoinking collection there!

I'm playing Ives's Concord Sonata now, as it happens!!(on YoutTube).