Chadwick: Orchestral Works
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Composer: George Whitefield ChadwickConductor: Kenneth Schermerhorn
Orchestra: Nashville Symphony
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-07-16
Music Label: Naxos American
Soundtracks:
- Euterpe
- Angel Of Death
- Aphrodite
- Melpomene
- Thalia
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Free Music Review: CHADWICK'S RARELY HEARD ORCHESTRAL WORKS WELL SERVED ON THIS CD!
Hit: 5 Stars
Here are some intensely melodious, colorfully rich tone poems and overtures by the rather neglected American composer George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931), whose varied, imaginative musical output is absolutely worthy of more attention today. Shadows of influence by the two Richards (Wagner and Strauss) seem occasionally to peek through Chadwick's orchestral music. But this is really a benefit, I think, because Chadwick's work as a whole stands solidly grounded and connected to its own creative strength, originality, and idiom.
The EUTEREPE, MELPOMENE, and THALIA overtures; the ANGEL OF DEATH symphonic poem; and the long APHRODITE symphonic fantasy, are the orchestral works presented here.
Chadwick's music moves along tuneful lines that are often hauntingly beautiful, almost ballet-like in nature. In fact, APHRODITE is programmatic music, divided into various scenes like a ballet, where each scene contains a specific musical theme and mood. The composer in some scenes becomes a bit overly dramatic at times, very nearly bordering on the melodramatic. But this is impressionistic/neoromantic music, after all, which is prone to touches of wonderfully melodic and colorful excess.
The Nashville Symphony explores with enthusiasm and loving care the pleasing harmonic details and variances of color and mood underscoring each orchestral work on this CD. Indeed, Chadwick's music is well served by these enormously impressive and strong performances by the Nashville Symphony, which is firmly and most capably guided by Kenneth Schermerhorn.
My 5 stars on all counts go to this gem of a CD. A must-have on the NAXOS label! Now run and get it while still available at such a reasonable price from Amazon.
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