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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Like me, you probably don't know the Buffalo Philharmonic or the conductor Jo-Ann Falletta, but don't let that put you off. This is quite simply a stunning disc. The performances are full of life and very well played indeed. The recording is very truthful and combines immediacy with a good overall perspective on things. It also has a very extended bottom end so that things like the bass drum really do make an impact. Most enjoyable and thoroughly recommended, as well as excellent value for money.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra with JoAnn Falletta present a fabulous recording here at a bargain price. This is an excellent recording full of vitality and power.
There are two suites, one from film with the" Red Pony" with its spacious reflection of life on a California ranch. The second is the ballet "Rodeo, four dance episodes" which uses a variety of American Folk tunes. Also on the recording are two other pieces that were written for radio. The first is "Prairie journal", and the second is "Letter from home 1944" In both cases Copland explores nostalgia through images of the Prairie Cowboy life and life back home for soldiers at Army Camp.
This is a good programme of composition by Copland and it is excellently performed and recorded. The digital sound by Naxos was created in 2005.
I highly recommend this recording to anyone interested in Aaron Copland or American Classical Music.
There are two suites, one from film with the" Red Pony" with its spacious reflection of life on a California ranch. The second is the ballet "Rodeo, four dance episodes" which uses a variety of American Folk tunes. Also on the recording are two other pieces that were written for radio. The first is "Prairie journal", and the second is "Letter from home 1944" In both cases Copland explores nostalgia through images of the Prairie Cowboy life and life back home for soldiers at Army Camp.
This is a good programme of composition by Copland and it is excellently performed and recorded. The digital sound by Naxos was created in 2005.
I highly recommend this recording to anyone interested in Aaron Copland or American Classical Music.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
SPECTACULAR CD !
16 Nov 2006
Format:Audio CD
If you blinfolded me and played this CD I would tell you the conductor is Leonard Bernstein. The Buffalo Phil under JoAnn Falletta plays with amazing verve and energy. The playing is letter perfect and the recording quality is top rate. For under ten bucks this CD is a steal.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Four Populist Copland Works
3 Dec 2006
Format:Audio CD
Tucked in among the thrice-familiar 'Four Dance Episodes' from 'Rodeo' and music from the film 'The Red Pony' are two Copland rarities which partake of the same open-air style perfected by Copland in the 1930s. They are 'Prairie Journal' and 'Letter from Home' and both were commissioned for radio performances; alas, how far we've come from those days when American radio networks commissioned classical works.
'Prairie Journal' (earlier called, and sometime still listed as 'Music for Radio') was written in 1937 for CBS (along with commissioned works by Roy Harris, Howard Hanson, Louis Gruenberg, Walter Piston and William Grant Still). Initially called simply 'Music for Radio' there was a contest for naming it and the winner was 'Saga of the Prairie.' Copland took this suggestion to heart and renamed it 'Prairie Journal.' It is an eleven-minute evocation of the agrarian west with bustling themes, catchy rhythms, and eventually the serenity of approaching night on the prairie. This is a work worthy of being programmed more than occasionally.
'Letter from Home' was commissioned during wartime 1944 and conjures up the feelings of a soldier, far from home, receiving a letter from the folks (or perhaps the girlfriend). It has a plaintive tune first sung by the clarinet and then harmonized in an almost dreamy style. A melancholy trumpet tune recalls a similar passage in Appalachian Spring. (I wonder if this piece has ever been choreographed? It would be suitable for a solo dance, I should think.)
Of course, the dance episodes from 'Rodeo' are extremely well-known, and their hair-trigger rhythms are given a marvelously alive performance here by the crack Buffalo Philharmonic under Joann Falletta. Almost as well known are the excerpts from one of Copland's film scores, 'The Red Pony.' This has always been a great favorite of mine and I approve of the way Falletta and her orchestra manage the alternation of nostalgia, exciting, and parodic elements of the score. One might quibble some at the occasionally awkward tempo shifts, but generally speaking this is a performance that can stand with the best, including those of Leonard Bernstein.
Sound is excellent. My only complaint is the slightly short timing of the CD -- 59:55 -- and wish there could have been another selection. There would even have been time, for instance, for a performance of the 'Billy the Kid' suite. Ah, well, what we get here is certainly worth the budget outlay.
Scott Morrison
'Prairie Journal' (earlier called, and sometime still listed as 'Music for Radio') was written in 1937 for CBS (along with commissioned works by Roy Harris, Howard Hanson, Louis Gruenberg, Walter Piston and William Grant Still). Initially called simply 'Music for Radio' there was a contest for naming it and the winner was 'Saga of the Prairie.' Copland took this suggestion to heart and renamed it 'Prairie Journal.' It is an eleven-minute evocation of the agrarian west with bustling themes, catchy rhythms, and eventually the serenity of approaching night on the prairie. This is a work worthy of being programmed more than occasionally.
'Letter from Home' was commissioned during wartime 1944 and conjures up the feelings of a soldier, far from home, receiving a letter from the folks (or perhaps the girlfriend). It has a plaintive tune first sung by the clarinet and then harmonized in an almost dreamy style. A melancholy trumpet tune recalls a similar passage in Appalachian Spring. (I wonder if this piece has ever been choreographed? It would be suitable for a solo dance, I should think.)
Of course, the dance episodes from 'Rodeo' are extremely well-known, and their hair-trigger rhythms are given a marvelously alive performance here by the crack Buffalo Philharmonic under Joann Falletta. Almost as well known are the excerpts from one of Copland's film scores, 'The Red Pony.' This has always been a great favorite of mine and I approve of the way Falletta and her orchestra manage the alternation of nostalgia, exciting, and parodic elements of the score. One might quibble some at the occasionally awkward tempo shifts, but generally speaking this is a performance that can stand with the best, including those of Leonard Bernstein.
Sound is excellent. My only complaint is the slightly short timing of the CD -- 59:55 -- and wish there could have been another selection. There would even have been time, for instance, for a performance of the 'Billy the Kid' suite. Ah, well, what we get here is certainly worth the budget outlay.
Scott Morrison
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Well Played and Well Recorded
8 July 2009
Format:Audio CD
Old-timers may remember that the Nonesuch label used to issue bargain-priced LPs that would sometimes feature orchestras such as the Buffalo Philharmonic. Those records were a bargain then; this new CD is a bargain today. Combining some better- and lesser-known works by Copland, all distinctly in his Americana idiom, well played and well recorded, this issue brings us nearly an hour of genuine musical enjoyment.
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