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V Thomson - The Plow that Broke the Plains, The River | Naxos - American Classics 8559291

V Thomson - The Plow that Broke the Plains, The River

£11.78

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Label: Naxos - American Classics

Cat No: 8559291

Barcode: 0636943929124

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 1st October 2007

Contents

Artists

Post-Classical Ensemble

Conductor

Angel Gil-Ordonez

Works

Thomson, Virgil

The Plow that Broke the Plains
The River

Artists

Post-Classical Ensemble

Conductor

Angel Gil-Ordonez

About

Pare Lorentz’s The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1937) are landmark American documentary films. Aesthetically, they break new ground in seamlessly marrying pictorial imagery, symphonic music, and poetic free verse, all realized with supreme artistry. Ideologically, they indelibly encapsulate the strivings of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s ‘New Deal’.

Virgil Thomson’s scores for both films are among the most famous ever composed for the movies. Aaron Copland praised the music for The Plow for its “frankness and openness of feeling”, calling it “fresher, more simple, and more personal” than the Hollywood norm. He called the music for The River “a lesson in how to treat Americana”.

World Première Recordings.

The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936):
Prelude; Pastorale (Grass); Cattle; The Homesteader; Warning; War and the Tractor; Speculation (Blues); Drought; Wind and Dust; Devastation

The River (1937):
Prelude; First Forest; A Big River; Cotton Pickers; Ruins; Logging; Coal; Floods; Requiem; Tenancy; Finale

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