Billy The Kid and Statements For Orchestra - Aaron Copland Conducting The London Symphony Orchestra
Artist(s): Conductor – Aaron Copland
Orchestra – The London Symphony Orchestra
Producer – Bert Whyte
Recorded By [Director] – Raoul Poliakin
Recording Supervisor – Joe Kane
Recording Info: Recorded for Harry Belock and Everest Records, Fall, 1958 at Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London, England
Billy The Kid - Ballet Suite
1 The Open Prairie 3:08
2 Street In A Frontier Town 6:33
3 Card Game At Night 3:03
4 Gun Battle 1:59
5 Celebration After Billy's Capture 2:08
6 Epilogue: The Open Prairie Again 2:50
Statements For Orchestra
7 Militant 2:41
8 Cryptic 3:30
9 Dogmatic 1:42
10 Subjective 3:53
11 Jingo 3:34
12 Prophetic 3:46
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An excellent presentation of Copland's own view of this music
The recording is transparent, alive, very detailed. The orchestra is laid out before us in excellent breadth and depth. Producer Bert Whyte was also an excellent recording engineer, and here he controls the full aesthetic range of the production--to our benefit. The HDTT transfer is excellent, as we've come to expect. I am firmly in the camp of both LIKING and VALUING the recordings Aaron Copland made of his own music. His approach is direct, with no nonsense. There are no stretched out phrases (as with some self-indulgent conductors who will go nameless), there is no hyperbole. Copland's approach to his own music is particularly important for a performance of Statements for Orchestra (1932-35). The Statements belong to what has been termed Copland's abstract phase of the middle 1920s and early-to-middle 1930s. To have it contrasted with Billy the Kid (1938), that epitome of Americana, is a refreshing and educational coupling.
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