Antheil: Symphonies Nos 3 & 6, etc Orchestral & Concertos Chandos

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GEORGE ANTHEIL

Archipelago (1935)

6:01

(Rhumba)

Non troppo allegro ma ben ritmico -

L'istesso tempo ma espressivo - Poco meno - a tempo -

Poco meno ma molto marcato - Ancora poco meno, molto marcato -

Symphony No.3 'American' (1936 - 41, revised 1946)

24:47

Allegro - Poco più mosso - Poco meno - A tempo (poco più) -

8:24

L'istesso tempo - L'istesso tempo - Poco meno -

Tempo I [Poco più mosso] - Poco più mosso (Barbaro) - Poco meno -

Andante - Meno mosso: Marcia - Più mosso -

6:35

Tempo I - Meno mosso (Marcia) - Più mosso - Poco meno mosso -

III

The Golden Spike. Introudction. Andante - Allegro scherzando

4:16

Back to Baltimore. Presto - Più mosso (Prestissimo) -

5:21

Poco meno, commodo - Poco meno mosso - L'istesso tempo -

Poco meno - Poco più mosso - A tempo I -

Hot-Time Dance (1948)

4:33

(American Dance Suite No.1; Election Dance)

Allegro molto - Espressivo - Marcato - Poco misterioso, molto marcato -

Legato, ma molto marcato - Espressivo - Molto marcato

Symphony No.6 'after Delacroix' (1947-48, revised 1949-50)

26:12

Allegro molto marcato. Maestoso - Allegro molto, marcato -

8:48

A tempo, espressivo - Poco meno - Poco meno mosso (espressivo) -

Larghetto - Poco meno mosso, perdendosi - Più mosso, andante ma non troppo -

9:40

III

Allegro - L'istesso tempo - Molto marcato - Molto marcato -

7:36

Poco meno - A tempo - Poco meno - A tempo - L'istesso tempo -

10.

Spectre of the Rose Waltz (1946, re-orchestrated 1947)

4:53

Music from the film Specter of the Rose by Ben Hecht

[ ] - Tempo di Valse (espressivo) - Poco meno, a la 'Viennoise' -

Total time: 66:52

Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Yuri Torchinsky leader

Conductor: John Storgårds

Artistic Quality 8 Sound Quality 9

“…Antheil’s sound world comes vividly alive with the BBC Philharmonic under John Storgårds’ perceptive and idiomatic leadership.”

Jed Distler – ClassicsToday.com – April 2019

**** (Excellent)

Jeremie Cahen – Classica magazine (France) – March 2019

“… This is a really enjoyable release with delightful, truly American style compositions by George Antheil. The BBC Phil and Storgårds deliver them all with verve and stylishness.” ****

Remy Franck – www.Pizzicato.lu - 6 February 2019

“…It is impossible to imagine more committed performances than those John Storgårds obtains from the BBC Philharmonic, or a finer recorded sound than Chandos consistently displays. “

Robert Matthew-Walker – ClassicalSource.com – 7 February 2019

“Chandos’s fascinating Antheil series continues with two of the composer’s symphonies both, not inappropriately, considering his Hollywood connections, quite cinematic in character and atmosphere… of interest to film music aficionados and the adventurous.”

Ian Lace – MusicWeb-International.com – 29 January 2019

“… Very strongly recommended.”

Andrew Farach-Colton - Gramophone magazine – February 2019

“… From the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor, John Storgårds comes a full-bodied performances of those works [Symphony 3 & 6] … Recording quality is of the very highest grade throughout the CD – the BBC Philharmonic conjuring the atmosphere of tobacco smoke and the clink of tequila-filled glasses in Archipelago and then striding out into the new age of America’s surging millions in the Symphony No. 3, dazzling in its late-1930s’, early 1940s’ confidence. And in that work, look out for the fourth movement – ‘The Golden Spike’ …”

Stuart Millson – QuarterlyReview.org/Endnotes – 19 January 2019

Performance **** Recording ****

“… In this second volume of Chandos’s survey of the orchestral Antheil, both symphonies, finished in the 1940’s, are fidgety, episodic creations of bustling Americana. They are equally greatly enjoyable… Music like this, often rampagingly orchestrated, needs performances of matching gusto … the superior Chandos sound and the BBC Philharmonic’s finesse supply just that extra kick needed…”

Geoff Brown – BBC Music magazine – February 2019

“…Auditioned in 24/96, Storgårds's just-released anthology open with Archipelago (1935), a wild 6-minute rhumba…. This six-minute piece is a must-hear. The recording includes two other short, must-hear works. Hot-Time Dance (1948) sounds a bit like the Camptown Races, while Spectre of the Rose Waltz (1946, re-orchestrated 1947), from a film by Ben Hecht, begins kinda lovely and romantic until things suddenly go all unhinged. The volume's two longer works, the 25-minute Symphony No.3 "American" (1936–41, revised 1946) and slightly longer Symphony No.6 "after Delacroix," puzzle even as they delight. While both contain some delightfully wacky stuff, they often jump from motif to motif and then back again, as if Antheil were scoring a film…”

Jason Victor Serinus – www.stereophile.com – 16 January 2019

“…The language is eclectic, hinting at or lifting from Sibelius, Mahler et al, and accusations of bombast are forgivable. Yet there’s also an irresistible all-embracing Americanism. The BBC Phil and Storgårds deliver it all with scintillating gusto.”

Stephen Pettitt – The Sunday Times (Culture magazine) – 13 January 2019

“…this is Antheil in total immersion in the super-confident American continent, north and south… “

Rob Barnett – MusicWeb-International.com – 4 January 2019

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