Sony Classical is pleased to announce another ten releases in its increasingly comprehensive series of Classical Masters. These new budget-priced CD box sets contain classic recordings, many of them newly remastered, by some of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century.During his long music directorships of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra - America’s second-oldest, founded in 1880 - and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C., conductor Leonard Slatkin brought these ensembles regularly into the recording studio to perform a wide swath of American repertoire major works by composers including Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Leonard Bernstein, William Schuman and John Corigliano, as well as more popular fare by John Philip Sousa, Virgil Thomson, Victor Herbert, Ferde Grofé, Leroy Anderson and Morton Gould, plus the national anthem and Battle Hymn of the Republic. Those recordings, acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic, have now been collected in a 13-CD box.
M**T
A useful compendium
It’s a pity the Barber was omitted. Why did that happen? Sony: please replyOtherwise, good.
G**R
Five Stars
Leonard Slatkin is excellent in this repertoire.
K**S
Excellent compilation for a nice price
Very well recorded. The repertoire is interesting and rich. From the highly sophisticated music of Charles Ives to, in contrast, the easy going and charming short pieces by Leroy Anderson, Slatkin and his orchestra always hit the right tone. Overall, a competent conductor and a more than fine orchestra.
G**V
Une superbe photographie américaine
On n'y trouve pas les symphonies de Bernstein (mais les Songfest) de Rorem ou de Barber, c'est vrai, ni Crumb , Ni Morton Feldman et pas de Gershwin ni de Harris. Cette compilation du grand Leonard Slatkin de plus de 13 heures de musique est néanmoins un vrai condensé de bonheur. De l’expressionnisme violent de Corigliano à la légèreté jazzy de Leroy Anderson en passant par 3 disques consacrés à l’œuvre de Copland (les symphonies et les musiques de film, mais pas les suites de ballet, facilement dénichables par ailleurs. Tout est parfait: l'interprétation, la prise de son, le prix... Les yeux fermés pour les amateurs de musique américaine du 20ème. Pour ceux qui veulent découvrir ces créateurs si peu connus dans la chauvine vielle Europe qui pensait être le seul continent à produire une musique savante de qualité.
C**N
panorama de musique contemporaine US
Programme éclectique, prise de son correcte. Livret un peu succinct
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