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Hovhaness - Symphonies Nos 1 & 50, Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints | Naxos - American Classics 8559717

Hovhaness - Symphonies Nos 1 & 50, Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints

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Label: Naxos - American Classics

Cat No: 8559717

Barcode: 0636943971727

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 30th July 2012

Contents

Artists

Ron Johnson (marimba)
Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Gerard Schwarz

Works

Hovhaness, Alan

Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints, op.211
Symphony no.1, op.17 no.2 'Exile'
Symphony no.50, op.360 'Mount Saint Helens'

Artists

Ron Johnson (marimba)
Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Gerard Schwarz

About

One of the most intriguing and individual of 20th century American composers, Alan Hovhaness rejected the cosmopolitan modernism of other leading composers of the 1930s and ’40s. The connection Hovhaness felt with his Armenian heritage is evident in his Exile Symphony, which commemorates the flight forced upon those people by the Ottoman Turks after World War I.

Delicacy, charm and vitality in the Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints evoke the composer’s love for Japan, and the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens inspired the Symphony No.50, with its remarkable evocation of the violent power and hauntingly mystic beauty of nature in “startlingly realistic engineering” (Gramophone).

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