Antheil: Dreams; Piano Concerto No. 2; Serenade No. 2

Antheil: Dreams; Piano Concerto No. 2; Serenade No. 2

Antheil: Dreams; Piano Concerto No. 2; Serenade No. 2

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Composer: George Antheil
Conductor: Daniel Spalding
Orchestra: Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchesra
Performer: Guy Livingston
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Single
CD Release Date: 2006-09-01
Music Label: New World Records
Soundtracks:

Dreams, ballet for orchestra, W. 238: Introduction
Dreams, ballet for orchestra, W. 238: Andante
Dreams, ballet for orchestra, W. 238: Polka
Dreams, ballet for orchestra, W. 238: Rat
Dreams, ballet for orchestra, W. 238: Acrobat
Dreams, ballet for orchestra, W. 238: The King's March
Dreams, ballet for orchestra, W. 238: Can-Can
Dreams, ballet for orchestra, W. 238: Valse
Dreams, ballet for orchestra, W. 238: Finale & Epilogue
Piano Concerto (1926) a.k.a.'No. 2,' W. 206a: Moderato
Piano Concerto (1926) a.k.a.'No. 2,' W. 206a: Largo
Piano Concerto (1926) a.k.a.'No. 2,' W. 206a: Allegro
Serenade, for chamber orchestra No. 2, W. 191: Moderately fast
Serenade, for chamber orchestra No. 2, W. 191: Slow
Serenade, for chamber orchestra No. 2, W. 191: Quite fast

Description of Antheil: Dreams; Piano Concerto No. 2; Serenade No. 2

A concert pianist and vanguard composer, George Antheil (1900-1959) became known as the "Bad Boy of Music." The ultimate American in Paris, Antheil was an avant-garde provocateur of the first order who made his name composing iconoclastic compositions: the loudest and brashest classical music of his time. But this album gives us three new performances-two of them world-premiere recordings-which reveal another, forgotten side of antheil, the incurable romantic. Written in 1926, after the the height of Antheil's radical period, the Piano Concerto No. 2 is an experiment in classical form. The work contains the same sudden juxtapositions and abrupt contrasts of mood as his futuristic music. But the excesses of his recent Ballet mécanique (written for 16 player pianos!) are compensated for by an almost spare, baroque orchestration and motifs that draw on Bach as much as on Stravinsky. In three movements, Antheil employs a more restrained but still exuberant style. The beautifully meditative slow movement is followed by a virtuosic and compelling toccata. Each movement ends on an overtly Bachian cadence, most obvious in the sweetly naive coda of the final movement. The ballet Dreams (1935) had a prior existence in Paris. It was called Les Songes, and Darius Milhaud wrote the original music in 1933, later discarded in favor of Antheil's score. The plot was based on a surrealist poem by the painter André Derain. An Balanchine choreographed the production for his company Les Ballets. Antheil plays sarcastically with contradictions: waltz vs. march; folk song vs. orchestral romanticism. This is mavelous ballet music, and the unexpected structural and melodic changes keep us on the edge of our seat: amused and entertained. The lack of a formal structure does not hamper Antheil; he seemed to thrive on it, both in this piece, and in many others he wrote.

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