Copland the Modernist
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Composer: Aaron CoplandConductor: Michael Tilson Thomas
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Garrick Ohlsson
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-10-15
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Concerto For Piano And Orchestra: Andante sostenuto
- Concerto For Piano And Orchestra: Molto moderato; Allegro assai
- Orchestral Variations
- Short Symphony: Incisivo
- Short Symphony: Espressivo
- Short Symphony: Preciso e ritmico
- Symphonic Ode
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Free Music Review: Amazingly good.
Hit: 5 Stars
I must confess I've never given much chance to classical music, despite being a huge music fanatic. After seeing a special on PBS about Copland, I was intrigued at how some of his later era stuff seemed to have a jazz influence in it. I ran across this album early into my search for some of his more adventurous stuff, and I'd say I hit the nail right on the head. Nothing on here is predictable and dull in any way--it's very exciting and interesting stuff that has totally changed my view of classical/orchestra music. I've heard some of his other stuff, and I think everything I've heard is very good, but this one takes the gold as being not only the best I've heard from Copland, but some of the very best music I've ever heard.
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The material covered on Copland the Modernist offers an important--and highly enjoyable--counterweight to the icon of folksy Americana that the composer is usually made out to be. And though such works as Appalachian Spring and Rodeo have kept Copland high on the list of the 20th century's most popular composers, his achievement extends well beyond the familiar beauty of those musical landscapes. Michael Tilson Thomas, who has evolved into arguably the finest American conductor of his generation, has a special affinity for American maverick composers, and the selections here represent Copland as a probing artist who made his own impression straddling the popular-classical divide. In fact, Copland's later experiments in serialism were simply a natural development of his restless curiosity, of which these early assimilations of jazz into a symphonic idiom are excellent examples. Tilson Thomas manages at the same time to convey the heady inspiration from European models and the sense of embarking on a brave new world that went into the Short Symphony and Symphonic Ode (composed for the Boston Symphony). This is spectacular, spiky, incisive playing by a great American orchestra of a great American composer. --Thomas MayClassical Music CDs
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