American Classics

[AmpH]

I see the Nimbus disc includes one of my favourite Copland scores, the Nonet. I love the richness and autumnal feeling of this work. Perhaps because of the unusual scoring, 3 each of violins, violas & cellos, we hear it so very rarely.

Indeed. The coupling of the Nonet was one of the reasons I was originally attracted to this disc. The only other recording I know of is by ESO / William Boughton, also on Nimbus.

[Suffolkcoastal]

I have the Sony/CBS recording of the Nonet by the Columbia Chamber Orchestra with Copland directing, I'm not sure if its currently available.

[Bryn]

I have the Sony/CBS recording of the Nonet by the Columbia Chamber Orchestra with Copland directing, I'm not sure if its currently available.

Available "Used - Very Good" at low price via amazon.co.uk marketplace.

[BBMmk2]

Yes. my headmaster wanted us to listen to the last movement(when the singers come in of LvB's 9th!) Mind it you, looking back I think the school had a copy of Furtwangler conducting!)

[Northender]

Speaking of Samuel Barber I forgot that I have this cd too,a gem of a record.

I've just bought this disc and listened last night to the powerful 1st symphony and an Essay for Orchestra.

[BBMmk2]

Northerner, thats not a bad series?

[teamsaint]

I've just bought this disc and listened last night to the powerful 1st symphony and an Essay for Orchestra.

enjoy. I got it just before xmas. Brilliant stuff.

[ahinton]

Can I - as we're talking American classics here - make as loud as possible a plea here for ROGER SESSIONS? His best work is easily among the most deserving of the other pieces that have been cited here...

[teamsaint]

Can I - as we're talking American classics here - make as loud as possible a plea here for ROGER SESSIONS? His best work is easily among the most deserving of the other pieces that have been cited here...

AH

I have only tentatively looked at Session's music, but I was captivated by his music from the first moment I heard it. (Symphony# 8 as it goes).
So, a thumbs up from the american Classics reception class too !

[Suffolkcoastal]

Sessions music certainly is of the highest quality, I've tried to highlight the symphonies as I've been going through my symphonic journey. I think I've got almost his entire published output in recordings, outside of the symphonies there are many other works among them the Violin and Piano Concertos, the two string quartets, string quintet, the three piano sonatas, his moving setting of Whitman, 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' and the opera Montezuma. A lot of his output was written in the last 35 years of his life and some of it is quite demanding, but somehow despite the difficulty, one becomes totally hooked.

[BBMmk2]

Just listening to Barber's Piano Concerto. Rather good, imo.

[Beef Oven]

[amateur51]

I curse the day that certain parties learned to copy the image of a CD cover - what next? Images of the nutitional information of Kellogg's Cornflakes - back OT with style I like to think

Tell us about your reaction to the music!

[with apologies to Hornspieler for a poor impersonation ]

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

[teamsaint]

Schuman 3/5 symphony for Strings/8
NYP/Bernstein.