Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid and Rodeo Suite; Ferde Grof?:Grand Canyon Suite
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Composer: Aaron CoplandComposer: Ferde Grofe
Conductor: Morton Gould
Orchestra: Morton Gould and his Orchestra
Performer: Max Pollikoff
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-05-11
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Billy The Kid: Suite: Introduction: The Open Prarie
- Billy The Kid: Suite: Street In A Frontier Town
- Billy The Kid: Suite: Mexican Dance And Finale
- Billy The Kid: Suite: Prairie Night: Card Game
- Billy The Kid: Suite: Gun Battle
- Billy The Kid: Suite: Celebration: After Billy's Capture
- Billy The Kid: Suite: Billy's Death
- Billy The Kid: Suite: The Open Prairie (reprise)
- Rodeo: Suite: Buckaroo Holiday
- Rodeo: Suite: Corral Nocturne
- Rodeo: Suite: Honky Tonk Interlude
- Rodeo: Suite: Saturday Night Waltz
- Rodeo: Suite: Hoe-Down
- Grand Canyon Suite: Sunrise
- Grand Canyon Suite: Painted Desert
- Grand Canyon Suite: On The Trail
- Grand Canyon Suite: Sunset
- Grand Canyon Suite: Cloudburst
Free Music Notes for Aaron Copland: Billy the Kid and Rodeo Suite; Ferde Grof?:Grand Canyon Suite
Free Music Review: Astounding "Canyon"; "Rodeo" Rivals NYP
Hit: 5 Stars
Close your eyes and be transported to the Canyon. In this remastering of a 1960 recording, Morton Gould shows his chops as a superlative conductor and interpreter of this Grofe classic. The work itself is wonderful, but Gould and his orchestra provide nuances that absolutely delight. Of the five movements of "Grand Canyon Suite", the final, "Cloudburst", ceases becoming music and is elevated to pure sensory experience. It is no longer notes on a page finely executed; it IS the sky, the wind, the sheets of rain (a sheer, shimmering slide of sound), the thunder, and it is perfect. The four prior movements are nearly as excellent, with the second, "Painted Desert", casting an eerie shadow over the listener's mind with spellbinding brush strokes. This is a performance delivered with painstaking care.
Gould's treatment of Copland's works, recorded three years earlier, were of great personal interest, as one of my earliest exposures to "serious" music was the great Bernstein recording of "Rodeo", and "Buckaroo Holiday" in particular. Surprisingly, Gould and company give the NYPO a run for its money. They are just as energized, brash and even raw (hear the horns, and it's fitting) as New York; ditto the "Gun Battle" episode of "Billy". Gould threw himself into Copland's scores and whipped his musicians into a frenzy when called for, and the results place Gould's readings of these two pieces of Americana right behind Bernstein.
This CD - beautifully remastered - is a bargain.
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