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Major works by late romantic Americans.

This is a re-release of the great disc that was for a very short time available on EMI. From its Colonial period to the present, music has played an important role in America's cultural and social well-being. With the introduction of the recording as a consumer product (coupled later with radio), America's music was brought to the masses. Since American music was now able to travel to places on a global scale, between the two World Wars, its influence - particularly in its popular and jazz forms - was strongly felt in Europe. As a counterpoint to jazz and bold avant-garde trends, composers like Howard Hanson, Randall Thompson, Roy Harris, William Grant Still, and younger composers like Morton Gould and Norman Dello Joio, for example, were developing a distinctively American symphonic school. This golden era witnessed an unprecedented flourishing that is beginning to be recognized and re-established in our current time. However, composers from that period were certainly not the first to receive national - if not international - recognition. Apart from John Alden Carpenter, whose music is clearly a product of the twentieth century, John Knowles Paine, Dudley Buck, Edward MacDowell, Arthur Foote, as well as a host of others, like Amy Beach, Gottschalk and Chadwick, were truly Romantic American composers. This disc makes a fine introduction to the music of the wonderful American composers from this period. The American conductor, Kenneth Klein, has an especial affinity for this music and the Orchestra plays gloriously for him.
Contents:
Dudley Buck, composer
Festival Overture on the American National Air, The Star-Spangled Banner
London Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Klein, conductor

John Alden Carpenter, composer
Skyscrapers
London Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Klein, conductor

Arthur Foote, composer
Suite in E for Strings, Op. 63
London Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Klein, conductor

Edward MacDowell, composer
Lamia, Op. 29 (Symphonic Poem No. 3)
London Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Klein, conductor

John Knowles Paine, composer
Oedipus Tyrannus - Prelude, Op. 35
London Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Klein, conductor

Review:
"Albany's superb series of thoughtful reissues and new recordings is doing for American music what Library of America is doing for American literature. This richly recorded collection of music of early home-grown Romantic composers earned high praise upon its first release in 1987 on EMI, and sounds better than ever in this Albany reissue. Kenneth Klein elicits magnificent, wholly idiomatic performances from the London Symphony Orchestra, recorded with great amplitude and sonorous impact." (Fanfare)
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