Copland Archive
“American Masterpieces for Piano Duo” = WILLIAM BOLCOM: Recuerdos; AARON COPLAND: El Sálon México; DAVE BRUBECK: Points on Jazz, LEONARD BERNSTEIN Arias and Barcarolles – Diane Wang & Stacy Rodgers piano duo/ + Vocal duo – Albany
Enjoyable American music for two pianos.
AARON COPLAND: Third Symphony – London Sym. Orch./ Aaron Copland – Everest/ Countdown Media
One of the exceptional Everest recordings of a composer conducting his own work.
* COPLAND: Rodeo; Dance Panels: Ballet in Seven Sections; El Salon México; Danzon Cubano – Detroit Sym. Orch./ Leonard Slatkin – Naxos Pure Audio Blu-ray
************** MULTICHANNEL DISC OF THE MONTH ************
A great performance, important works and superb hi-res surround fidelity, and at a lower price than many SACDs.
PERSICHETTI: Harmonium – Song Cycle for Soprano and Piano (1951); Poems by Wallace Stevens – Sherry Overholt, sop./ Joshua Pierce, piano – MSR Classics
A rarely performed but welcome song cycle by the American Master.
“David Shifrin and Friends” – AARON COPLAND: Sextet for Clarinet, Piano and String Quartet; STEPHEN HARTKE: The Horse with the Lavender Eye; AARON JAY KERNIS: Trio in Red; ELLEN TAAFFE ZWILICH: Concerto for Clarinet and Ch. Orch.– David Shifrin, clarinet/Ch. Music Northwest – Delos Records
A winning collection that should appeal to clarinetists and chamber music lovers.
San Francisco Symphony at 100, Blu-ray (2011)
Best Sound and Image of any music Blu-ray I’ve seen yet this year.
The Pulitzer Project = WILLIAM SCHUMAN: A Free Song; COPLAND: Appalachian Spring; SOWERBY: Canticle of the Sun – Grant Park Chorus and Orch./ Carlos Kalmar – Cedille
The Beginning of an Ongoing Series?
‘Gulfstream’ = enhakē and guests plays works of LIBBY LARSEN, PETER SCHICKELE, AARON COPLAND & PETER LIEUWEN – Naxos
Very good additions to an appealing combination and American originals!
Sergiu Celibidache: The Complete RIAS Recordings, 1948-1957 = Works of GERSWIN, RAVEL, BUSONI, CHERUBINI, HINDEMITH, GENZMER, COPLAND, TIESSEN, SCHWARZ-SCHILLING – Audite (3 CDs)
For a musical picture of the cultural life in Berlin after WW II, this splendid set proves invaluable.
CHARLES IVES/ HENRY BRANT: A Concord Symphony; COPLAND: Organ Sym. – Paul Jacobs, organ/ San Francisco Sym./ Michael Tilson Thomas – SFS Media
Now that their Grammy-winning Mahler series is completed, MTT and the SF Symphony are continuing with more excellent SACDs.
Guido Cantelli conducts American Masters = PISTON: Toccata; COPLAND: El Salon Mexico; CRESTON: Dance Overture; Two Choric Dances; BARBER: Adagio for Strings; School for Scandal Ov. – NBC Sym. /NY Philharmonic/Cantelli – Urania
The gifted Italian conductor gave us only ten years, but his recorded legacy in American music remains richly coloristic.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
Cedille
