Copland: Symphony No. 3 - Symphony for Organ & Orchestra

Copland: Symphony No. 3 - Symphony for Organ & Orchestra

Copland: Symphony No. 3 - Symphony for Organ & Orchestra
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Brand: Sony
Composer: Aaron Copland
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic
Performer: E. Power Biggs
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-10-28
Music Label: Sony Classical
Soundtracks:
  1. Symphony No. 3: 1. Molto moderato - with simple expression
  2. Symphony No. 3: 2. Allegro molto
  3. Symphony No. 3: 3. Andantino quasi allegretto
  4. Symphony No. 3: 4. Molto deliberato
  5. Symphony for Organ & Orchestra: Andante
  6. Symphony for Organ & Orchestra: Scherzo
  7. Symphony for Organ & Orchestra: Finale: Lento

Music reviews of Copland: Symphony No. 3 - Symphony for Organ & Orchestra

Music Review: A snapshot of Copland as symphonist
Rating: 4 Stars

This disc provides a snapshot of Copland as an American symphonist.

The Symphony for Organ and Orchestra (1925) was Copland's first large-scale work. It looks backward to his youthful influences--especially Stravinsky and Bartok in their "bad boy" phase--and forward to the open-sounding populist style he would develop a few years later in works such as "Appalachian Spring." There are three movements. The short prelude is quiet but unsettled. The second movement scherzo anticipates the rhythmic, percussion-heavy Western sound that Copland would adopt for scores such as "Billy the Kid" and "Rodeo," and the solo organ jazz riffs look forward to later jazz-inspired works such as the piano concerto. The finale is the most traditionally symphonic movement, with a final piling-up of themes in the closing pages reminiscent of the opening of "The Miraculous Mandarin." The young Virgil Thomson, on hearing this work, recognized that Copland would become one of the creators of a truly American style of classical music. Bernstein and Biggs capture the symphony's "shock of the new" quality better than any other recorded performance. (This is also one of the few recordings of the Aeolian-Skinner organ ripped out of Lincoln Center during the Avery Fisher Hall renovations.) The more familiar Symphony No. 3 (1946) represents Copland in his maturity. (The last movement includes a theme based on "Fanfare for the Common Man.") Bernstein's performance is justly celebrated. It's good to have the early and later works together on one disc as a snapshot of Copland as symphonist. The 1960s recorded sound is dated but serviceable enough to make this disc highly recommendable.

Description of Copland: Symphony No. 3 - Symphony for Organ & Orchestra

Leonard Bernstein's performance of Copland's Third Symphony has had to wait a long time before finally appearing on CD. Part of the delay no doubt stemmed from the fact that DG released a second, later recording with the same orchestra, in digital sound. Comparing the two versions, both of which are very good, one prefers this first performance. Not only does the music move a bit more quickly, with sharper rhythms and a stronger sense of the dance (never far from Copland's musical thoughts), but the sonics are more naturally pleasing. The coupling is a terrific performance of the early Organ Symphony, which the composer wrote for his teacher, Nadia Boulanger. --David Hurwitz

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