Frederick Converse: American Sketches: Recorded at Air Studios, Hampstead, London, 5-6 April & 18 September 2011

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Until the arrival of the present disc, I had rather assumed that Converse was a one-time wonder...The BBC Concert Orchestra can hardly have been confronted with this material before, but under... — International Record Review, February 2012 More…

Release Date: 17th Oct 2011
Catalogue No: CDLX7278
Label: Dutton
Series: Epoch
Length: 62 minutes

Frederick Converse: Song of the Sea: Tone Poem After Whitman

Work length13:26

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BBC Concert Orchestra

Frederick Converse: Festival of Pan Op.9: Largo, molto tranquillo - Allegretto grazioso - Quasi scherzando - Animato - Poco tranquillo - Largo, molto tranquillo

Work length17:46

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BBC Concert Orchestra

Frederick Converse: American Sketches

Work length31:43

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BBC Concert Orchestra

Symphonic Suite for Orchestra: I. Manhattan (Molto maestoso - Allegro molto e con brio)

Track length11:13

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Symphonic Suite for Orchestra: II. The Father of Waters (Molto largamente e tranquillo - Adagio espressivo)

Track length8:36

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Symphonic Suite for Orchestra: III. Chicken Reel (Allegro con spirito scherzando)

Track length3:42

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Symphonic Suite for Orchestra: IV. Bright Angel Trail (Adagio maestoso - Andante moderato - Misterioso)

Track length8:12

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The American composer Frederick Shepherd Converse was a leading name in American music up to the Second World War. It was Converse who composed the first American opera, performed at the Met in New York. Yet despite being widely heard in his day, after his death in 1940 he was soon eclipsed by the new generation of Copland, Harris, Barber and their contemporaries. His revival is long overdue, vividly demonstrated by this programme of colourful orchestral tone poems – the four movements of American Sketches from the late 1920s, the early Festival of Pan (after a Keats poem) and the evocative Song of the Sea, a tone poem after Whitman. Whether you respond to the lyricism of the Festival of Pan and Song of the Sea or the varied scenes of American Sketches, this is enjoyable music to which you will return time and again.

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February 2012

Until the arrival of the present disc, I had rather assumed that Converse was a one-time wonder...The BBC Concert Orchestra can hardly have been confronted with this material before, but under its energetic new American conductor Keith Lockhart, it lacks for nothing in authority and panache.

Frederick Converse: American Sketches

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