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Release Date: Sunday 7 November 2021
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"Abravanel's account highly recommendable … played with great conviction" [Thomson] "colours glowing, resonantly atmospheric ..most enjoyable" [Gould] "so vivid and atmospheric …astonishing recorded sound .. Guaracha irresistibly catchy" [Copland] "orchestral vitality and rhythmic power"
- Penguin Guide ☆ ☆ ☆
Ferde Grofé - Grand Canyon Suite
1. Sunrise 2. Painted Desert 3. On the Trail
4. Sunset 5. Cloudburst
Utah Symphony Orchestra / Maurice Abravanel (1-5) rec 1959
Virgil Thomson - The Plow that Broke the Plains
6. Prelude 7. Pastorale (Grass) 8. Cattle
9. Blues (Speculation) 10. Drought 11. Devastation
Symphony of the Air / Leopold Stokowski (6-11) rec 1961
Morton Gould - Fall River Legend
12. Prologue and Waltzes 13. Elegy
14. Church Social 15. Hymnal Variations
16. Cotillion 17. Epilogue
18. Morton Gould - Guaracha (Latin-American Symphonette)
Morton Gould and his Orchestra (12-18) rec 1960
19. Aaron Copland - El Salon Mexico
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra / Antal Dorati (19) rec 1957