01. Leonard Bernstein: Candide Overture [4'24]
02. Charles Ives (arr. William Schuman): Variations on "America"* [7'10]
03. - 05. William Schuman: New England Triptych# [15'28]
06. Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op.11* [7'43]
07. Morton Gould: American Salute* [4'45]
08. Charles Griffes: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan^ [9'56]
09. Edward MacDowell (arr. Thomas Frost)l: Woodland Sketches, op.51 - To a Wild Rose* [2'03]
10. George Gershwin: Promenade# [2'27]
11. Louis Moreau Gottschalk (arr. Hershy Kay): Cakewalk - Grand Walkaround* [3'30]
12. Arthur Benjamin: Jamaican Rumba [1'36]
13. Richard Rodgers: On Your Toes - Slaughter on Tenth Avenue [7'03]
14. - 18. Virgil Thomson: Acadian Songs and Dances [10'48]
Cleveland Pops Orchestra conducted by Louis Lane
Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy*
New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andre Kostelanetz#
Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra^
Sony Essential Classics SBK63034 (recorded 1957 - 1975; this CD compilation originally issued 1997, reissued 2001 with a different booklet)
(CD-rip; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans)
Recording venues and engineers: not stated.
Producers: Jane Friedmann, Thomas Frost, Howard H Scott and Teo Macero
This mixture of well-known and less familiar 20th Century music, comes with Sony's hyperbolic title "American Masterpieces". I doubt that many of these works could be considered masterpieces - nor, in the case of Arthur Benjamin, American.
But they are all conducted and played by masters of the genre; opening and ending with Louis Lane's scintillating Bernstein Candide Overture and Virgil Thomson's Squeeze Box. I have seldom heard such a laugh out loud performance of William Schuman's orchestration of Ives' Variations on "America" (originally for organ solo) - a tune known to all citizens of the British Commonwealth by a very different title. Ormandy also makes sure that the Barber Adagio doesn't get bogged down.
Andre Kostelanetz and the New York Phil. offer one of the very finest versions of Schuman's New England Tryptich and they have Gershwin walking his dog in fine fashion.
Download from MEGA.
02. Charles Ives (arr. William Schuman): Variations on "America"* [7'10]
03. - 05. William Schuman: New England Triptych# [15'28]
06. Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op.11* [7'43]
07. Morton Gould: American Salute* [4'45]
08. Charles Griffes: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan^ [9'56]
09. Edward MacDowell (arr. Thomas Frost)l: Woodland Sketches, op.51 - To a Wild Rose* [2'03]
10. George Gershwin: Promenade# [2'27]
11. Louis Moreau Gottschalk (arr. Hershy Kay): Cakewalk - Grand Walkaround* [3'30]
12. Arthur Benjamin: Jamaican Rumba [1'36]
13. Richard Rodgers: On Your Toes - Slaughter on Tenth Avenue [7'03]
14. - 18. Virgil Thomson: Acadian Songs and Dances [10'48]
Cleveland Pops Orchestra conducted by Louis Lane
Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy*
New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andre Kostelanetz#
Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra^
Sony Essential Classics SBK63034 (recorded 1957 - 1975; this CD compilation originally issued 1997, reissued 2001 with a different booklet)
(CD-rip; flacs, booklet, cover and inlay scans)
Recording venues and engineers: not stated.
Producers: Jane Friedmann, Thomas Frost, Howard H Scott and Teo Macero
This mixture of well-known and less familiar 20th Century music, comes with Sony's hyperbolic title "American Masterpieces". I doubt that many of these works could be considered masterpieces - nor, in the case of Arthur Benjamin, American.
But they are all conducted and played by masters of the genre; opening and ending with Louis Lane's scintillating Bernstein Candide Overture and Virgil Thomson's Squeeze Box. I have seldom heard such a laugh out loud performance of William Schuman's orchestration of Ives' Variations on "America" (originally for organ solo) - a tune known to all citizens of the British Commonwealth by a very different title. Ormandy also makes sure that the Barber Adagio doesn't get bogged down.
Andre Kostelanetz and the New York Phil. offer one of the very finest versions of Schuman's New England Tryptich and they have Gershwin walking his dog in fine fashion.
Download from MEGA.
