Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Music 1 - Piano Concerto / The Golden Years / Fiddle-Faddle - Jeffrey Biegel, Piano / BBC Concert Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin
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Composer: Leroy AndersonConductor: Leonard Slatkin
Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra
Performer: Jeffrey Biegel
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-01-29
Music Label: Naxos American Classics
Soundtracks:
- Bugler's Holiday
- Blue Tango
- The First Day Of Spring
- Belle Of The Ball
- Governor Bradford March
- Clarinet Candy
- The Captains And the Kings
- The Golden Years
- Chicken Reel
- Fiddle-Faddle
- The Classical Jukebox
- China Doll
- Balladette
- Arietta
- Allegro Moderato
- Andante
- Allegro Vivo
Music reviews of Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Music 1 - Piano Concerto / The Golden Years / Fiddle-Faddle - Jeffrey Biegel, Piano / BBC Concert Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin
Music Review: Lackluster Leroy Anderson, alas
Rating: 1 Stars
As one of the many who have fallen under the spell of Leroy Anderson's ingratiating orchestral miniatures, I looked with much anticipation toward this new Slatkin survey. Unfortunately, I found the pieces have received rather flat performances with little of the bounce and verve that gave them so much life in earlier editions. Can't say for sure whether it's the fault of Slatkin himself or that the members of the BBC Concert Orchestra just miss Anderson's particularly American blend of jazz-twinged light pop. Take not my word for it. Seek out the performances by the composer himself, available on a budget MCA multi-disc set on Amazon, or the equally fine performances by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. There, pieces like Fiddle Faddle, Sandpaper Ballet, Bugler's Holiday, Plink Plank Plunk, and the rest, have an effervescent bounce that brings out all of their lyrical charms. There's an earnest quality that comes across, a vitality and direct involvement that is totally lacking in Saltkin's merely dutiful renditions. If you haven't heard those earlier versions, and are relying only on the current set, a whole different world of Leroy Anderson delight awaits you. As far as the Slatkin set is concerned, I frankly wouldn't waste my time with them.
Description of Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Music 1 - Piano Concerto / The Golden Years / Fiddle-Faddle - Jeffrey Biegel, Piano / BBC Concert Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin
Leroy Anderson etched out his own unique place in American music - a composer rigorously trained in the classical tradition whose records could top the pop charts, a reclusive personality whose compositions became household words, and a meticulous craftsman who could pull one marvelous tune after another out of his hat almost at will. Here, in the first complete cycle of Anderson's orchestral music, the Anderson family has made available several pieces that the composer did not release, with some first recordings scattered among the familiar and not-sofamiliar titles. Volume One closes with Anderson's Piano Concerto which, since its revival in 1989, has been receiving an increasing number of performances.General CDs
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