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American Archives Series - Piston, Harris, Schuman / Ormandy (CD, Jul-1997, Albany Records) 
American Archives Series - Piston, Harris, Schuman / Ormandy (CD, Jul-1997, Albany Records)

 
American Archives Series - Piston, Harris, Schuman / Ormandy (CD, Jul-1997, Albany Records)

Release Date: Jul 1997
Format: CD
Record Label: Albany Records
Genre: Classical, Symphony
UPC: 034061025627
Product ID: EPID71468294
Description: This disc resurrects premiere recordings dating from the fifties of three important American symphonies. Each came towards the middle of the composer's symphonic output. Piston's Fourth is nominally in four movements although played with...
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Playing Time:72 min.
Distributor:Albany Music Distribution
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Mono
SPAR Code:AAD

Album Notes
This disc resurrects premiere recordings dating from the fifties of three important American symphonies. Each came towards the middle of the composer's symphonic output. Piston's Fourth is nominally in four movements although played without pause. Its robust, searching qualities are admirably captured by Ormandy, returning the listener to a time when the premiere of a new American symphony was an important event. Roy Harris came to fame with his Third Symphony, which retains a tentative hold on the repertory. His single movement Seventh, recorded here, is built from a passacaglia theme into a powerful three-part work suffused with melody. William Schuman's Sixth is also in one movement and is also built as a passacaglia. This is all powerfully beautiful music, beautifully played.
The mono recordings have been carefully remastered. This disc gives the listener the chance to hear three orchestral masterworks far too little known.

Editorial Reviews
...These recorded premieres from the mid-1950s...of symphonies by Walter Piston, Roy Harris, and William Schuman remind us how superb an interpreter of mid-century American music Ormandy was....This is the music of his time, and he understood it as well as anyone ever could or can.
American Record Guide (11/01/1997)

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