American Classics

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
  • Beef Oven!
    Ex-member
    • Sep 2013
    • 18147

    Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
    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.

    Comment

    • teamsaint
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 25202

      Cindy Mctee.
      Symphony no1.

      Unmistakably american, and well worth a listen.



      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.
      Last edited by teamsaint; 02-12-13, 22:20.
      I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

      I am not a number, I am a free man.

      Comment

      • Beef Oven!
        Ex-member
        • Sep 2013
        • 18147

        Ned Rorem - symphony #3


        Comment

        • teamsaint
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 25202

          This thread need a kick up the backside !

          Walter Piston . Violin Concerto no 2.

          NSO Ukraine/Kuchar/Buswell.
          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

          I am not a number, I am a free man.

          Comment

          • teamsaint
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 25202

            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 ?
            Last edited by teamsaint; 12-03-14, 22:05.
            I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

            I am not a number, I am a free man.

            Comment

            • Beef Oven!
              Ex-member
              • Sep 2013
              • 18147

              Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
              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.

              Comment

              • teamsaint
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 25202

                Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                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:
                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                I am not a number, I am a free man.

                Comment

                • Beef Oven!
                  Ex-member
                  • Sep 2013
                  • 18147

                  Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                  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.

                  Comment

                  • ahinton
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 16122

                    Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                    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.

                    Comment

                    • teamsaint
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 25202

                      Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                      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.
                      I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                      I am not a number, I am a free man.

                      Comment

                      • Beef Oven!
                        Ex-member
                        • Sep 2013
                        • 18147

                        Originally posted by ahinton View Post
                        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?

                        Comment

                        • teamsaint
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 25202

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

                          I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                          I am not a number, I am a free man.

                          Comment

                          • ahinton
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 16122

                            Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                            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)...

                            Comment

                            • Bryn
                              Banned
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 24688

                              Originally posted by Beef Oven! View Post
                              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.

                              Comment

                              • BBMmk2
                                Late Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 20908

                                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).
                                Don’t cry for me
                                I go where music was born

                                J S Bach 1685-1750

                                Comment

                                Working...
                                X