American Symphonies by Piston, Jones & Albert
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2118
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 27th July 2018
Contents
Artists
London Symphony OrchestraConductor
Lance FriedelWorks
Symphony no.2Symphony no.3 'Palo Duro Canyon'
Symphony no.6
Artists
London Symphony OrchestraConductor
Lance FriedelAbout
The disc opens with Walter Piston’s Symphony No.6. It was completed in 1955, by which time many regarded Piston (1894-1976) as clinging to tradition in the face of modernism. When Samuel Jones (b. 1935) presented his Third Symphony ‘Palo Duro Canyon’ in 1992, the pendulum was swinging back, however, and traditional music built of melody, harmony and rhythm was no longer considered hopelessly outdated. The work nevertheless begins in a rather non-traditional fashion with the recorded sound of the wind of the Texas plains, where the Palo Duro Canyon is situated. Jones’s slightly younger colleague Stephen Albert (1941-92) was just completing his Second Symphony when he was killed in a car accident. The work had been commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, and the orchestration of it was completed by Albert’s colleague and friend Sebastian Currier.
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