Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite for orchestra No1-5; Herbert: Concerto for cello in Em
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Performer: Georges MiquelleComposer: Ferde Grofe
Composer: Victor Herbert
Conductor: Harold Lawrence
Conductor: Howard Hanson
Orchestra: Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-09-19
Music Label: Philips
Soundtracks:
- Sunrise
- The Painted Desert
- On The Trail
- Sunset
- Cloudburst
- Father Of Waters
- Huckleberry Finn
- Old Creole Days
- Mardi Gras
- I. Allegro impetuoso
- II. Andante tranquillo
- III. Allegro
Music reviews of Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite for orchestra No1-5; Herbert: Concerto for cello in Em
Music Review: Some wonderful performances in great old stereo
Rating: 4 Stars
I concur with the other review to get Mercury CDs while they can be gotten. The early stereo sound on these 1958 recordings is valuable not only as a historic benchmark in early stereo production but for the way they project the orchestra in sections.
I find equally winsome the performances of Ferde Grofe's two symphonic suites about the Grand Canyon and Mississippi -- which is about the river, not the state -- and the Victor Herbert Cello Concerto No. 2, which I have heard in more recent recordings not done as well as here. Cellist Georges Miquelle emphasizes the songful aspects of Herbert's friendly score in this memorable performance.
Having just read a review of popular American music in a well-known American classical music magazine, I was displeased to learn they did not recommend this recording for the Grand Canyon Suite, which is surely the meatiest section. The performance here by the Eastman Rochester Orchestra are vividly done with sensitivity to the Wild West aspects of the music. You can probably find a better version of "On the trail" but you'll never hear better work in the Mississippi Suite, which with excellent bass response rises to a level of the better known composition.
I very much enjoyed this small tour of Americana through Howard Hanson's Rochester forces circa 1958. I found the recording not wanting in any area and the players -- with a small accommodation necessary for a thin string tone -- being otherwise up to the task and turning in really memorable performances of the Mississippi Suite and Herbert concerto.
Description of Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite for orchestra No1-5; Herbert: Concerto for cello in Em
Grofe lost no time capitalizing on the spectacular success of his Grand Canyon Suite, churning out several others, of which the Mississippi Suite is probably the best. Both pieces are very well performed by composer/conductor Howard Hanson and his excellent conservatory orchestra. The music itself is charmingly jazzy and very much of its period. Victor Herbert's Cello Concerto is a typically well written work by the famous operetta composer, and it has the singular distinction of having inspired Dvor?k to compose his own Cello Concerto--the greatest ever written for the instrument. It's nice to have it back in the catalog in such a sympathetic performance. --David HurwitzGeneral CDs
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