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Copland - Piano Concerto, Old American Songs | Naxos - American Classics 8559297

Copland - Piano Concerto, Old American Songs

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Label: Naxos - American Classics

Cat No: 8559297

Barcode: 0636943929728

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 28th April 2008

Contents

Artists

Benjamin Pasternack (piano)
St Charles Singers
Elgin Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Robert Hanson

Works

Copland, Aaron

Old American Songs Set 1
Old American Songs Set 2
Piano Concerto
The Tender Land Suite

Artists

Benjamin Pasternack (piano)
St Charles Singers
Elgin Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Robert Hanson

About

Aaron Copland’s little-known opera 'The Tender Land' takes place on a farm in the American South during the Depression. The composer later wrote, “I was trying to give young American singers material that they do not often get in the opera house... The result was closer to musical comedy than grand opera.”

The suite that Copland extracted from The Tender Land is in three movements, with the second and third linked without pause. The 1926 Piano Concerto, like Gershwin’s Concerto of the previous year, is a 1920s “New York” piece – brassy, exuberant, ever confident in its bluesy swagger.

Copland composed two sets of Old American Songs, originally for voice and piano but heard here transcribed for chorus and orchestra.

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