Peter Mennin: Moby Dick & Symphony No. 3

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Release Date: 30th Jul 2012
Catalogue No: 8559718
Label: Naxos
Series: American Classics
Length: 57 minutes

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Mennin: Concertato "Moby Dick"

Work length10:50

$3.00

$3.85

Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz

Mennin: Symphony No. 3

Work length20:13

$5.00

$6.50

Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz

I. Allegro robusto

Track length4:46

$1.00

$1.30

II. Andante moderato

Track length8:06

$2.00

$2.60

III. Allegro assai

Track length7:21

$2.00

$2.60

Mennin: Symphony No. 7 ‘Variation-Symphony’

Work length26:12

Album only

Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Gerard Schwarz

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Peter Mennin was a leading member of the school of American symphonic composers who came of age in the 1930s and 1940s, a group that includes David Diamond, William Schuman and others. Cast in a traditional design of three movements in a fast-slow-fast pattern, Symphony No. 3 is a work of great contrapuntal energy, percussive accents and propulsive rhythms. The composer described the passionate slow movement as “an extended song ... making use of sustained voice-weaving.” Symphony No. 7 develops in a single movement of remarkable contrasts and intensity. An exception to Mennin’s “pure” compositional approach, the concertato Moby Dick depicts “the emotional impact of the novel as a whole.” This recording has been acclaimed as “a fine tribute to an inexplicably neglected figure of the century’s American music scene” (Chicago Tribune).

Peter Mennin: Moby Dick & Symphony No. 3

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