W Schuman - Symphony No.8 | Naxos - American Classics 8559651

W Schuman - Symphony No.8

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Label: Naxos - American Classics

Cat No: 8559651

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 1st February 2010

Contents

Artists

Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Gerard Schwarz

Works

Ives, Charles

Variations on America (orch. W Schuman)

Schuman, William

Night Journey
Symphony no.8

Artists

Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Gerard Schwarz

About

This disc is the fifth and final release in Naxos’s acclaimed series of William Schuman’s symphonies, and concludes with his powerful and at times playful Eighth Symphony, in which the great American composer takes full advantage of the diverse instrumental colours available from a very large orchestra, including two harps, piano, and batteries of brass, wind and percussion instruments.

The introspective Night Journey is based on Schuman’s score for Martha Graham’s ballet about Jocasta’s tragic destiny as both mother and wife of Oedipus, while his arrangement of Ives’s popular Variations on ‘America’, again rich in percussion, combines reverence and exuberance.

I hope the disc listed here will draw new admirers to this distinguished composer’s body of work.” - Fanfare on 8559254

Schwarz and the orchestra play with stirring vitality.” - San Francisco Chronicle on 8559317

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