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American Classics for Chamber Orchestra | Decca - Originals E4758237

American Classics for Chamber Orchestra

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Label: Decca - Originals

Cat No: E4758237

Barcode: 0028947582373

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 19th March 2007

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Penguin Guide 4 stars

Contents

Artists

Celia Nicklin (oboe/cor anglais)
Michael Laird (trumpet)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Conductor

Neville Marriner

Works

Barber, Samuel

Adagio for Strings, op.11

Copland, Aaron

Quiet City

Cowell, Henry

Hymn and Fuguing Tune no.10

Creston, Paul

A Rumor

Ives, Charles

Symphony no.3 'The Camp Meeting'

Artists

Celia Nicklin (oboe/cor anglais)
Michael Laird (trumpet)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Conductor

Neville Marriner

About

Originally released as an LP on the Argo label in 1976, this programme of American classics for chamber orchestra was the Academy of St Martin in the Fields' contribution to the celebration of the Bicentennial of the United States of America in July 1976. The record was very enthusiastically received when first released and quickly established itself as a classic Academy/Marriner album.

Few anthologies find room for a symphony; but this one does, and in doing so offers us a very good one, Ives's Third: three gently affectionate movements (for once no jokes, no revolutions) ... it is music of great charm, and given exactly that quality in the continuously eloquent performance of Neville Marriner's Academy... there is also playing of the very first order in Barber's Adagio, with an intensity of string tone at the climax hardly to be believed possible with the number of players likely involved. The Copland is splendid too, trumpet and cor anglais exceptionally well balanced with each other - projecting their solos with a long-lined beauty matching that of the string players. Creston's A Rumour is in a sense a party piece for the orchestra... perhaps in this little piece Creston has produced the record's second triumph of good nature; hardly comparable in scope with the Ives, but an effective one nevertheless. Its performance and recording are of an equal standard to that of the whole disc: impeccable”. Gramophone July 1976 
 

Timing: 51:26
Digital Status: ADD
Recorded: Smith Square, London, October 1975

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