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American Classics
American Classics is a new series from EMI which will feature, over several releases, recordings of as many different American composers as is possible. These will be single CD releases and, where possible, 2-CD sets, of music of different genres, including symphonies, concertos and purely orchestral works with some instrumental, chamber, song and opera.
Before the 20th century, there was very little in the way of American concert music. There was a handful of composers who were notable exceptions but these almost always followed the European compositional traditions. Not until the arrival of Charles Ives (1874-1954) could America boast an original, native-born, composer of it's own.
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Special offer. Cage - Concert for piano and orchestra
Burkhard Wissemann, Michael Dietz, Christoph Keller, Johann Nikolaus Matthes, Hermann Danuser, Bell Imhoff & Doris Sandrock
Ensemblle Musica Negativa, Rainer Riehn
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Special offer. Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra of St. Luke's, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi, Leonard Slatkin, Simon Rattle & Dennis Russell Davies
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Special offer. William Schuman & Leonard Bernstein
Robert McDuffie
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
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Special offer. American Counterpoint
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, Thomas Adès, Michael Tilson Thomas
Cage's Dances are scintillatingly played...Harmonielehre is magisterial — More…
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Special offer. Virgil Thomson & Howard Hanson
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra & Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Neville Marriner & Leonard Slatkin
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Special offer. Bernstein: Wonderful Town
Kim Criswell, Audra MacDonald, Thomas Hampson
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & London Voices, Sir Simon Rattle
This piece is probably best watched on DVD, where it can be found with the same cast and conductor. For listeners, it's unlikely this account will be surpassed. — More…
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Special offer. Copland - Symphony No. 3 & Dance Symphony
Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Filharmónica de la Cuidad de Mexico, Eduardo Mata, Enrique Bátiz
Copland's monumental Third Symphony and the lively Danzón Cubano are well played and handsomely recorded; but the Mexico orchestra under Bátiz is less secure in the Dance Symphony. — More…
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Special offer. Porter, C: Anything Goes
Kim Criswell (Reno Sweeney), Cris Groenendaal (Billy Crocker), Frederica Von Stade (Hope Harcourt), Jack Gilford (Moonface Martin), Judy Green (1st Girl), Rebecca Caine (2nd Girl), Simon Green (Evelyn)
Ambrosian Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, John McGlinn
John McGlinn's insistence on using the original orchestrations make this a hugely satisfying CD. — More…
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Special offer. George Gershwin
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra & London Sinfonietta, London Sinfonietta, André Previn & Leonard Slatkin, Simon Rattle
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