Special offer. Copland: Billy The Kid & Grohg
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
Copland’s deeply unsettling, Rite of Spring-like Grohg is a real discovery. The much more familiar Billy the Kid, meanwhile, is played with terrific swagger by Slatkin’s Detroit forces.
Special offer. Copland: Billy The Kid & Grohg
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
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Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
Copland’s deeply unsettling, Rite of Spring-like Grohg is a real discovery. The much more familiar Billy the Kid, meanwhile, is played with terrific swagger by Slatkin’s Detroit forces.
About
Aaron Copland did as much as anyone in establishing American concert music on the world stage, and his ballet scores proved to be among his most important and influential works. Grohg is the most ambitious example of his Parisian years, a precociously brilliant one-act ballet scored for full orchestra, inspired by the silent expressionist film Nosferatu. The first example of Copland’s new ‘Americanized’ music of the 1930s was Billy the Kid, based on the life of the 19th century outlaw and heard here in its full version. This was the first fully fledged American ballet in style and content: brassy, syncopated, filmic and richly folk-flavoured.
Contents and tracklist
- Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- Leonard Slatkin
- Recorded: 28-30 November 2014
- Recording Venue: Orchestra Hall, Detroit, USA
- Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- Leonard Slatkin
- Recorded: 23-25 October 2014
- Recording Venue: Orchestra Hall, Detroit, USA
Awards and reviews
May 2019
Copland’s deeply unsettling, Rite of Spring-like Grohg is a real discovery. The much more familiar Billy the Kid, meanwhile, is played with terrific swagger by Slatkin’s Detroit forces.
June 2019
[Grohg is] a strikingly assured composition, contrasting passages of menace, grotesquery, rambunctiousness and rhythmic complexity… Slatkin’s incisive and powerful performance is also strongly recommendable.
March 2019
An already promising cycle just got a whole lot better; super sonics from Soundmirror, too.
classicalsource.com March 2019
The DSO is at-one with its maestro and the music with playing of precision, vivid detail and sonorous projection, superbly recorded, too, with a natural perspective and a tangibility that puts the listener in one of Orchestra Hall’s best seats.
