American Music in celebration of Thanksgiving
November 21, 2006
CDc 5602
Aaron Copland the populist
Contents: Billy The Kid; Appalachian Spring; Rodeo: Buckaroo Holiday, Corral Nocturne, Saturday Night Waltz, Hoe Down.
Performers: San Francisco Symphony; Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
CDc 6462
A Copland celebration. Vol. 3, Vocal and choral works
Contents: Old American Songs, Sets 1 And 2; Twelve Poems Of Emily Dickinson; In The Beginning; Lark; The Tender Land.
Performers: New England Conservatory Chorus; Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Choral Art Society, New York Philharmonic; Aaron Copland, piano and conductor
CDc 10,569
Ives plays Ives
Contents: Transcriptions from Emerson; Studies; Improvisations; Piano Sonata No. 2; Largo; They are there! March for piano No. 6
CDc 939
John Adams conducts American elegies
Contents:
Ives: The Unanswered Question; Five Songs
Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes
Morton Feldman: Madame Press Died Last Week At Ninety
John Adams: Eros, Piano
David Diamond: Elegy In Memory Of Maurice Ravel
Performers: Orchestra of St. Luke’s; John Adams, conductor
CDc 6311
Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, Arthur Farwell, Preston Ware Orem
Contents:
Preston Ware Orem: American Indian Rhapsody
Arthur Farwell: Navajo War Dance; Pawnee Horses; The Old Man’s Love Song
Amy Beach: Sonata For Piano And Violin In A Minor, Op. 34
Arthur Foote: Sonata For Piano And Violin In G Minor, Op. 20
Performers: Peter Basquin, piano; New World Singers, John Miner, conductor; Gilbert Kalish, piano, Joseph Silverstein, violin
CDc 407
Samuel Barber: Orchestral & Chamber works
Contents: Adagio for strings; Summer music; Four excursions; Dover Beach; String quartet.; Vanessa, Intermezzo from Act II; Toccata festival.
Various Performers
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