Music of Howard Hanson, Volume 1

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Gerard Schwarz's red-blooded 1988 account of the Second Symphony (Romantic) remains a match for any rival. Schwarz and his excellent Seattle band do full justice to its dark opulence, concision... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: DE3705
Label: Delos
Series: Double
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Hanson, H: Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 'Romantic'

Work length28:23

$7.00

$9.05

Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz

I. Adagio - Allegro moderato

Track length13:41

$3.00

$3.85

II. Andante con tenerezza

Track length7:26

$2.00

$2.60

III. Allegro con brio

Track length7:16

$2.00

$2.60

Hanson, H: Fantasy Variations on a Theme of Youth, for piano and strings

Work length11:51

$3.00

$3.85

Carol Rosenberger
New York Chamber Symphony
Gerard Schwarz

Hanson, H: Symphony No. 4, Op. 34 'Requiem'

Work length25:44

$6.00

$7.80

Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz

I. Kyrie. Andante inquieto

Track length9:39

$2.00

$2.60

II. Requiescat: Largo

Track length5:42

$1.00

$1.30

III. Dies irae: Presto

Track length2:39

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Lux aeterna: Largo pastorale

Track length7:44

$2.00

$2.60

Hanson, H: Elegy in Memory of Serge Koussevitzky, Op. 44

Work length12:48

$3.00

$3.85

Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz

Hanson, H: Symphony No. 6

Work length20:37

$6.00

$7.80

Randolf Baunton, Ronald Johnson
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz

I. Andante

Track length3:40

$1.00

$1.30

II. Allegro scherzando

Track length4:52

$1.00

$1.30

III. Adagio

Track length4:58

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Allegro assai

Track length2:08

$1.00

$1.30

V. Adagio

Track length2:53

$1.00

$1.30

VI. Allegro

Track length2:06

$1.00

$1.30

Hanson, H: Serenade for Flute, Harp and Strings, Op. 35

Work length6:15

$1.00

$1.30

Judith Mendenhall, Susan Jolles
New York Chamber Symphony
Gerard Schwarz

Hanson, H: Mosaics

Work length11:59

$3.00

$3.85

Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz

Hanson, H: Symphony No. 7 'Sea Symphony'

Work length18:00

$4.00

$5.20

Seattle Symphony Chorale, Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz

I. Lo, the unbounded sea

Track length7:44

$2.00

$2.60

II. The untold want

Track length4:18

$1.00

$1.30

III. Joy, shipmate, joy!

Track length5:58

$1.00

$1.30

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2010

Gerard Schwarz's red-blooded 1988 account of the Second Symphony (Romantic) remains a match for any rival. Schwarz and his excellent Seattle band do full justice to its dark opulence, concision and organic power. Similarly, there's no missing the communicative ardour and clean-limbed security of Schwarz's lucid reading of the Sixth. Commissioned in 1967 by the New York Philharmonic for their 185th anniversary season, it boasts a formidable thematic economy and intriguing formal scheme of which Hanson himself was justifiably proud. Its successor, A Sea Symphony from 1977, sets texts from Walt Whitman's Leavesof Grass. In the unashamedly jubilant finale Hanson fleetingly quotes from his Romantic Symphony of more than four decades earlier: it's a spine-tingling moment in a score of consummate assurance and stirring aspiration.
Schwarz's traversal finds the Seattle Symphony Chorale on rousing form.
We also get exemplary renderings of the pretty 1945 Serenade for flute, harp and strings (a gift for Hanson's wife-to-be, Margaret Elizabeth Nelson) and characteristically inventive FantasyVariations on a Theme of Youth from 1951 (with Carol Rosenberger a deft soloist), both these featuring Schwarz directing the New York Chamber Symphony. The present warmhearted accounts of both the Elegy in memory ofSerge Koussevitzky and Mosaics (which is a highly appealing set of variations written in 1957 for Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra) need not fear comparison with the composer's own Mercury recordings. The engineering is wonderfully ripe.

Music of Howard Hanson, Volume 1

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