American Classics

[teamsaint]

this popped onto my doormat this week.Sounded like an excellent disc on first listen

[Beef Oven!]

this popped onto my doormat this week.Sounded like an excellent disc on first listen

Must be a re-release on Naxos because I bought it about 15-20 years ago on a different label (too knackered to check my shelves!).

Delos?

[teamsaint]

Must be a re-release on Naxos because I bought it about 15-20 years ago on a different label (too knackered to check my shelves!).

knackered? try being me !! 2 days sales conference and five a side footy last night. Sales V others.

(I hope you didn't pay through the snout for Wally's #4............)

Edit: Hope your knackered is good knackered, not bad knackered.

[Beef Oven!]

knackered? try being me !! 2 days sales conference and.........

Ok, let's swap for a week and see what happens

[teamsaint]

Ok, let's swap for a week and see what happens

oh, you are so ON !!!! (as long as I can borrow your CD collection !!)

Edit? don't want to know who won?

[Suffolkcoastal]

Yes the Piston was originally on Delos which I have, the Delos also had the Fantasy for English Horn. Naxos have reissued quite a number of Delos originals though often cut one of the works out in doing so.

[Beef Oven!]

knackered? try being me !! 2 days sales conference and five a side footy last night. Sales V others.

(I hope you didn't pay through the snout for Wally's #4............)

Edit: Hope your knackered is good knackered, not bad knackered.

Good knackered. Getting my money's worth out of my gym membership!

[Beef Oven!]

Yes the Piston was originally on Delos which I have, the Delos also had the Fantasy for English Horn. Naxos have reissued quite a number of Delos originals though often cut one of the works out in doing so.

Yes, the Fantasy For English Horn, it's all coming back now! I have a few of those Delos CDs of American music. Hovhaness springs to mind. I rarely play his music, but in the past I found him interesting and different. Ethnic Scot, I think.

[teamsaint]

Charles Ives. Symphonies 2 and 3.
LAPO/Mehta
Cleveland Orchestra.Dohnanyi

[Pabmusic]

I recently came across this LP on a blogsite - Roy Harris: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, and Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra. The pianist in both is Harris's wife, but I'm not sure of the recording date (poss. 1954).

The site is here: http://big10inchrecord.blogspot.com/...remasters.html You need to copy the link into your browser and you'll get a downloadable flac file.

[Suffolkcoastal]

I recently came across this LP on a blogsite - Roy Harris: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, and Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra. The pianist in both is Harris's wife, but I'm not sure of the recording date (poss. 1954).

The site is here: http://big10inchrecord.blogspot.com/...remasters.html You need to copy the link into your browser and you'll get a downloadable flac file.

I have the original lp Pabmusic, the recordings were both made in May 1955 and released in November of that year. Both performances are now available as downloads.

[Pabmusic]

I have the original lp Pabmusic, the recordings were both made in May 1955 and released in November of that year. Both performances are now available as downloads.

Thanks.

[Pulcinella]

I listened yesterday to my copy of the CD mentioned in the original posting, especially to the Ruggles piece Sun-treader. I then discovered that the 2LP set of Ruggles music recorded by MTT with the Buffalo Phil has been transferred to CD, so ordered it, as the only other Ruggles I have is a version of Angels.
I haven't trawled through this thread to see if there are any references to Ruggles.
Any pointers to what I should listen to when the set arrives?
He does not seem to have been a very nice guy, but I'm interested to hear more of his music.
Thanks in advance.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Ruggles was a rather eccentric character to say the least! Certainly outspoken and prone to racist outbursts and plain rudeness. He had a very long life (1876-1971) but composed very little apparently destroying many of his earlier works. The style he arrived at in the 1920's is quite unique, it could be loosely described as atonal but isn't really similar to any of the other atonal composers. There is a great interest in the sonority of harmonies and various progressions. The MTT CDs contain all the surviving works that he wrote except an early piece for violin & piano entitled Mood, which is incomplete. Sun-Treader is his most important and impressive work, I also admire Portals for String Orchestra and Evocations originally for piano but later orchestrated by the composer, I prefer the piano original. Ruggles was also a rather prolific painter and I believe made more money from painting than music.

[teamsaint]

here's an interesting disc that I picked up cheaply on a whim recently.

Villa Lobos Live.

Heitor Villa Lobos - Piano Concerto No. 5 (Live)
Felicja Blumental - piano
Heitor Villa-Lobos - conductor
Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Allegro non troppo (5'47) Play track
Poco adagio (6'11) Play track
Allegretto scherzando - Allegretto(7'44) Play track


Heitor Villa-Lobos - Garibaldi foi a Missa (1'24)
Felicja Blumental - piano

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Dança do Indio Branco (3'24)
Felicja Blumental - piano

Camargo Guarnieri - Dança Brasileira (2'13)
Felicja Blumental - piano

Francisco Mignone - Senerata Humoristica (1'59)
Felicja Blumental - piano

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras No.3 for Piano and Orchestra
Felicja Blumental - piano
Luigi Toffolo - conductor
Filarmonica Triestina

Preludio (6'50)
Fantasia (6'28)
Aria (8'53)
Toccata (7'20)

recordings sound a little dated, but a great window back on a world that seems somehow lost now. some excellent music .

Must investigate both Villa Lobos and Guarnieri more.