Grofe: Death Valley Suite

Grofe: Death Valley Suite

Grofe: Death Valley Suite
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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-09-17
Music Label: Naxos American
Soundtracks:
  1. On The Set-Sweepers
  2. The Stand-In
  3. Carpenters And Electricians
  4. Preview
  5. Production Number
  6. Director-Star-Ensemble
  7. The River
  8. Henry Hudson
  9. Rip Van Winkle
  10. Albany Night Boat
  11. New York!
  12. Funeral Mountains
  13. '49er Emigrant Train
  14. Desert Water Hole
  15. Sand Storm

Music reviews of Grofe: Death Valley Suite

Music Review: No musical desert here; a musical dessert!
Rating: 5 Stars

These are splendid performances of three Ferde Grofe suites, one of them ("Hollywood Suite") a premiere recording. The liner notes tell us that the 1935/1938 "Hollywood" started life as a ballet, which would explain the uncharacteristically mundane movement titles ("The Stand-in," "Sweepers," etc.) from a composer who usually treats us to windstorms, scenic marvels, and loud historical happenings. This suite's music is marvelous, if blatantly Gershwinesque in more than a few spots, especially in "Carpenters and Electricians," which sounds more like "Triumphant Charge of the Combined Armies of 19th-Century Europe" than a soundtrack for on-set union activity. "Concerto in F" paraphrasings provide some break from the movement's relentless onslaught of... hammers? T-squares? Overwrought, perhaps, but who's complaining? In a lighter mode, "Production Number" uncannily presages modern attempts to recall the Broadway and Hollywood of days gone by, as if Grofe had anticipated cable-TV sound bytes in the days before television. The final movement is the epitome of a Grofe musical wrap-up, evocative of numerous story-lines wrapping up in quick fashion. Grofe's 1955 "Hudson River Suite," much more typical of the composer's later, streamlined, CinemaScope style, is musical enjoyment of the purest style--so much so, that I won't even mention the Track 7, 3:32 goof-up that someone ought to have noticed during playback, if not on the spot. The flattened third of the scale CAN sound good against the unflattened version of the same, but not here. Andre Kostelanetz made a nice recording of this circa 1956, but without the benefit of digital technology, a recording snidely dismissed by one critic of the time as being "of interest mainly for its special sound effects." This is light music, to be sure, but not lightweight, with the bouncy, minimalist "Rip Van Winkle" movement especially charming. "Winkle" moves seamlessly from a mood of free-spirited joy to murky mysterioso to creaky transfiguration to lively recapitulation, and without a break--nothing to snore at, here. Finally, the 1949 "Death Valley Suite" (the outside of the case says 1957!) is every bit as Death-Valleyesque as the 1955 recording by Grofe himself, with the Stephen Foster medley in "Desert Water Hole" brilliantly performed and just the greatest kind of musical fun. I won't complain about the ridiculous amplified-rattle effect in "Sand Storm," because this CD is too extraordinarily good to harp over. NAXOS and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra have given Grofe lovers a gift to treasure.
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