Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 / Copland: Billy The Kid

 
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ANTONIN DVORAK / AARON COPLAND
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 / Copland: Billy The Kid
National Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda

[ NSO SACD / Hybrid SACD ]

Release Date: Friday 21 February 2020

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The first release on the National Symphony Orchestra label pairs Copland's evocative Suite from Billy The Kid with Dvorak's Ninth Symphony.

In November of 2019 the National Symphony Orchestra announced the introduction of its new, self-produced record label. This debut album features two composers who contributed greatly to the tapestry of American music. America's vastness and diversity are portrayed in these two iconic works by Antonín Dvorák and Aaron Copland. In many ways, these works are important parts of the foundation on which the American sound has continued to be built over the decades. The Orchestra's new label, presented in partnership with the London Symphony Orchestra's label, LSO Live, uses high-definition technology for live recordings from the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.

"In fact, this entire release-and no doubt the summer concerts from which it derives-has an air of joyful music-making. That would be a wonderful sign that the National Symphony is waking up from its sleepiness. I couldn't be more pleased for them" Fanfare

"The venue sounds well enough in what is clearly a well-engineered disc and the inimitable chord spacings that open Copland's Billy the Kid Suite certainly convey that sense of 'tall, wide and handsome'...But the open, rather too wellhomogenised (for my taste) sound picture contributes to a presentation of this music that, while slickly projected by the NSO and its music director Gianandrea Noseda, is somehow too urbane to be entirely in keeping with its frontier spirit, its homespun local colour." Gramophone

Tracks:

Copland: Billy the Kid
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World'