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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.

The close of the old and the advent of the new century saw the births of a whole generation of world-class composers who, although they might have studied in Europe, represented a new and original voice for American Music. The very first year of the new century brought with it the birth, in New York City, of possibly the best-known of them all, Aaron Copland. Samuel Barber, Roy Harris, Walter Piston, Elliott Carter, William Schuman, Virgil Thomson and George Gershwin were all born by 1910 and put American music on the world map.

Only one of the above-mentioned composers is still with us today and in 2008 Elliott Carter will celebrate his 100th birthday. We are pleased to include in this first issue of American Classics a programme of works by Carter.

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Aaron Copland

Bruce Hubbard
The Orchestra of St. Luke's, Dallas Symphony Orchestra & Orquestra Filharmónica de la Cuidad de Mexic, Dennis Russell Davies, Eduardo Mata & Enrique Bátiz
Release Date: 5th May 2008

Catalogue No: 2066342

Label: Warner Classics

Series: American Classics

Length: 76 minutes
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Ives - Piano Trio & Violin Sonatas Nos. 2 & 4

Deborah Voigt, Brian Zeger, Glenn Dictenow, Alan Staphansky & Israela Margalit
Release Date: 3rd Nov 2008

Catalogue No: 2344502

Label: Warner Classics

Series: American Classics

Length: 68 minutes
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Berlin, I: Annie Get Your Gun

Kim Criswell, Thomas Hampson, Jason Graae, Rebecca Luker, David Garrison, David Healy, Alfred Marks, Gregory Jbara, Simon Green, Peta Bartlett, Kerry Potter, Hayley Spencer, Emma Long, Frank Keating, Nick Curtis, Carey Wilson, Michael Pearn & Clare Buckfield
Ambrosian Chorus & London...
Release Date: 8th Jun 2009

Catalogue No: 6952302

Label: Warner Classics

Series: American Classics

Length: 78 minutes
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Ride on King Jesus

Florence Quivar sings black music of America

Florence Quivar (mezzo soprano)
Harlem Boys’ Choir, Walter Turnbull
Release Date: 2nd Nov 2009

Catalogue No: 9671382

Label: EMI

Series: American Classics

Length: 66 minutes
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Copland: Billy the Kid, Rodeo & In the Beginning

Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Release Date: 1st Nov 2010

Catalogue No: 6411152

Label: Warner Classics

Series: American Classics

Length: 72 minutes
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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. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…
Release Date: 8th Jun 2009

Catalogue No: 6952212

Label: Warner Classics

Series: American Classics

Length: 66 minutes
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American Ballets

Ballet Theatre Orchestra, Joseph Levine

Three rarely heard scores for American Ballet Theatre - George Antheil's blowsy Capital of the World, William Schuman's dramatic Undertow, Morton Gould's allusively effective Fall River Legend... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…
Release Date: 8th Jun 2009

Catalogue No: 6952282

Label: EMI

Series: American Classics

Length: 74 minutes
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Barber: Piano Music

Leon McCawley (piano)
Release Date: 11th Apr 2011

Catalogue No: 9489552

Label: Warner Classics

Series: American Classics

Length: 69 minutes
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Grofé - Suites

Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra & Capitol Symphony Orchestra, Ferde Grofé & Felix Slatkin
Release Date: 3rd Nov 2008

Catalogue No: 2344512

Label: Warner Classics

Series: American Classics

Length: 70 minutes
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Gershwin - Piano Concerto in F

Wayne Marshall (piano/conductor)
Aalborg Symfoniorkester
Release Date: 5th Apr 2010

Catalogue No: 6066882

Label: Warner Classics

Series: American Classics

Length: 77 minutes
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