American Classics

[Oliver]

The Naxos American series is certainly worth exploring. I particularly enjoy Jerome Moross's Frankie and Johnny (8.559086) which I first heard fifty years ago when I used to be a member of the US Embassy's library in London. It had an interesting collection of LPs of American music; not just the usual suspects (though the Barber 1st Symphony and Copland's sadly-underplayed Piano Concerto certainly made an impression) but lesser known composers like Hanson and Piston.
By the way, Moross wrote the music for an extremely dull western, The Big Country (the only good thing about that film) and for the TV series Wagon Train.

[Beef Oven]

The Naxos American series is certainly worth exploring. I particularly enjoy Jerome Moross's Frankie and Johnny (8.559086) which I first heard fifty years ago when I used to be a member of the US Embassy's library in London. It had an interesting collection of LPs of American music; not just the usual suspects (though the Barber 1st Symphony and Copland's sadly-underplayed Piano Concerto certainly made an impression) but lesser known composers like Hanson and Piston.
By the way, Moross wrote the music for an extremely dull western, The Big Country (the only good thing about that film) and for the TV series Wagon Train.

I must confess that I've never heard of Jerome Moross before!

I will definitely investigate his music.

Your experience of the US Embassy Library sounds wonderful - these days we rely on Spotify, Youtube and the on-line Naxos Library!!

[Beef Oven]

[Flosshilde]

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 ]

Especially when it's then included in a reply (& even more so when the reply is just below the post being replied to) - it's easy to delete the image from a quote. If the reader wants to see the image then they can refer back to the post.

[BBMmk2]

Naxos's recording of Samuel Barber's piano music is surprisingly well worth investigating.

[Oliver]

Anyone else here who enjoyed the US Embassy library? It wasn't huge but it was certainly esoteric. I got to know the Menotti operas (The Saint of Bleeker Street and The Consul were my favourite and both have modern performnaces avaialable on Chandos) though Eliot Carter was a bit beyond my foruteen/fifteen year-old self. And there was Ives of course, and series of recordings by the Eastman-Rochester orchestra. Morton Gould's Latin-American Symphonette was a delight, too.

Alas; those days are long-since gone. In those days the US won friends with its culture instead of enemies with its drone strikes! I doubt that, nowdays, I'd be allowed into the Embassy.

[Beef Oven]

[BBMmk2]

Whatis that like Beefy?

[amateur51]

Whatis that like Beefy?

Exactly BBM

Do tell, Beefy

[Beef Oven]

Whatis that like Beefy?

Both are good.

[amateur51]

Both are good.

Good?

Oh good

Does that include the artwork?

[Beef Oven]

Good?

Oh good

Does that include the artwork?

Art work is good.

You have given yourself quite a task. There are so many posts without reviews by so many people that you must pick up on, unless of course you are singling me out for some reason.

[amateur51]

Art work is good.

You have given yourself quite a task. There are so many posts without reviews by so many people that you must pick up on, unless of course you are singling me out for some reason.

I'm employing the method favoured by Miss Jean Brodie, Beefy

[Beef Oven]

David Diamond, Symphony #4. Will play #8 next.

[Beef Oven]

Steve Reich - Different Trains. When I first heard this piece I could not get over the utter poignancy of the title. I don't know if Reich thought of it himself, but it is so moving (and no pun please).