New York Philharmonic ; with various performers and conductors. Recorded Dec. 6, 1936-April 10, 1999 in New York at Carnegie Hall, Philharmonic (later Avery Fisher) Hall, or Madison Square Garden; one work recorded in London, June 3, 1976, and one at the Philharmonie, Berlin, Sept. 8, 1975. Compact discs. Program notes by and interviews with the composers, notes on the performers, and detailed lists of New York Philharmonic personnel (2 v., 246 pages each) included.
Contents:
v. 1. Disc 1. Fanfare for the common man / Aaron Copland (Kurt Masur) ; Melpomene, dramatic overture / George Chadwick (Leonard Bernstein) ; Suite no. 2 in E minor : Indian (three movements) / Edward MacDowell (Leonard Bernstein) ; The white peacock, op. 7, no. 1 / Charles Tomlinson Griffes (Howard Hanson) ; A victory ball : fantasy for orchestra / Ernest Schelling (Artur Rodzinski) ; Three places in New England / Charles Ives (Kurt Masur) -- Disc 2. Music for the theatre / Aaron Copland (Erich Leinsdorf) ; Intégrales / Edgard Varèse (Leonard Bernstein) ; Memories of my childhood : life in a Russian village / Charles Martin Loeffler (John Barbirolli) ; Concerto grosso no. 1 for string orchestra with piano obbligato / Ernest Bloch (Charles Munch, conductor ; Walter hendl, piano) ; An American in Paris / George Gershwin (Artur Rodzinski, conductor) -- Disc 3. Symphony no. 2, op. 30 : Romantic / Howard Hanson (Howard Hanson) ; Four saints in three acts : Acts III and IV (abridged) / Virgil Thomson ; libretto by Gertrude Stein (Leonard Bernstein, conductor) ; El salón México / Aaron Copland (Guido Cantelli) ; Sun-treader / Carl Ruggles (Kurt Masur, conductor) ; Prairie journal / Aaron Copland (Zubin Mehta, conductor) -- Disc 4. Third symphony / Roy Harris (Leonard Bernstein) ; Essay no. 1 for orchestra / Samuel Barber (George Szell) ; The devil and Daniel Webster : suite / Bernard Herrmann (Leopold Stokowski) ; Old California / William Grant Still (Pierre monteux) ; Serenade : for solo flute, harp, and strings / Howard Hanson (Lepold Stokowski) ; Lincoln portrait / Aaron Copland (Leonard Bernstein, conductor ; William Warfield, narrator) -- Disc 5. Appalachian spring : suite / Aaron Copland (Artur Rodzinski) ; Symphony no. 2, op. 35 / Paul Creston (Pierre Monteux) ; Hymn and fuguing tune no. 2 / Henry Cowell (Paul Paray) ; Symphony no. 6 in one movement / William Schuman (Leonard Bernstein). v. 2. Disc 1. A tone parallel to Harlem / Duke Ellington ; arr. Wynton Marsalis (with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra ; Kurt Masur, conductor) ; Serenade for solo violin, string orchestra, harp, and percussion, after Plato's Symposium / Leonard Bernstein (Glenn Dicterow, violin ; Leonard Slatkin, conductor) ; Dramatic overture / Gunther Schuller (Dimitri Mitropoulos) ; Concertato "Moby Dick" / Peter Mennin (Leonard Bernstein) ; Orchestral variations / Aaron Copland (Leonard Bernstein) -- Disc 2. Candide overture / Leonard Bernstein (without conductor) ; Dance variations for two pianos and orchestra / Morton Gould (Arthur Whittemore, Jack Lowe, pianists ; Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor) ; Medea's meditation and dance of vengeance, op. 23-A / Samuel Barber (Dimitri Mitroppoulos) ; The world of Paul Klee / David Diamond (Seymour Lipkin) ; Symphony no. 3 / Ned Rorem (Leonard Bernstein) -- Disc 3. Introduction and good-byes : a nine-minute opera / Lukas Foss ; libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti (Leonard Bernstein) -- Nonet for strings / Aaron Copland (William Steinberg) ; Concerto for orchestra / Elliott Carter (Pierre Boulez) ; Star-child / George Crumb (Pierre Boulez ; David Gilbert ; James Chambers ; Larry Newland, conductors) -- Disc 4. To Vishnu / Alan Hovhaness (Andre Kostelanetz) ; Lamia (revised version) / Jacob Druckman (Pierre Boulez) ; Sequoia / Joan Tower (Zubin Mehta) ; Tehillim : Psalms (orchestral version) / Steve Reich (Zubin Mehta) -- Disc 5. Short ride on a fast machine / John Adams (Kurt Masur) ; Trombone concerto / Christopher Rouse (Joseph Alessi, trombone ; Leonard Slatkin, conductor) ; Symphony no. 3 / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (Jahja Ling, conductor) ; Concerto for clarinet and orchestra / William Bolcom (Stanley Drucker, clarinet ; Leonard Slatkin, conductor) ; Encore : The stars and stripes forever / John Philip Sousa (with the NBC Symphony Orchestra ; Arturo Toscanini, conductor).
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