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Peter Mennin - Moby Dick, Symphonies Nos 3 & 7 | Naxos - American Classics 8559718

Peter Mennin - Moby Dick, Symphonies Nos 3 & 7

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Label: Naxos - American Classics

Cat No: 8559718

Barcode: 0636943971826

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 30th July 2012

Contents

Artists

Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Gerard Schwarz

Works

Mennin, Peter

Moby Dick: Concertato for orchestra
Symphony no.3
Symphony no.7 'Variation-Symphony'

Artists

Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Gerard Schwarz

About

Peter Mennin was a leading member of the school of American symphonic composers who came of age in the 1930s and 1940s, a group that includes David Diamond, William Schuman and others.

Cast in a traditional design of three movements in a fast-slow-fast pattern, Symphony No.3 is a work of great contrapuntal energy, percussive accents and propulsive rhythms. The composer described the passionate slow movement as “an extended song ... making use of sustained voice-weaving.”

Symphony No.7
develops in a single movement of remarkable contrasts and intensity.

An exception to Mennin’s “pure” compositional approach, the concertato Moby Dick depicts “the emotional impact of the novel as a whole.”

This recording has been acclaimed as “a fine tribute to an inexplicably neglected figure of the century’s American music scene” (Chicago Tribune).

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