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PT 6763
Aspects of America: Pulitzer Edition (Live)
Label Catalogue Number:
PTC5186763
PTC5186763
Running Time: 01:11:07
Release Date: March 2020
Originally recorded in 2019
Originally recorded in 2019
Genre:
Classical
Orchestral & Concertos
Classical
Orchestral & Concertos
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About
Oregon Symphony and Carlos Kalmar continue their acclaimed Aspects of America series with this second instalment, featuring three symphonic works that were all awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Walter Piston’s Symphony No. 7 (Pulitzer Prize 1961) is a pastoral and jubilant glorification of nature, while Morton Gould’s Stringmusic (Pulitzer Prize 1995) was composed for star cellist Rostropovich, and showcases all possible sounds and colors of the string orchestra. In his Symphony No. 4 “Requiem” (Pulitzer Prize 1944), Howard Hanson explores the mysteries of life and death in an American musical idiom that simultaneously reveals the composer’s Nordic roots. Oregon Symphony and its music director Carlos Kalmar have a vast PENTATONE discography, including Music for a Time of War (2011), This England (2012), Spirit of the American Range (2015), Haydn Symphonies 53, 64 & 96 (2017), Aspects of America (2018), as well as Gospel Christmas (2018), with conductor Charles Floyd.
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Reviews
Critics’ Choice 2021 – Roger Hecht
American Record Guide – January/February 2022
“…These performances are beautifully played by the rich, dark sounding well-recorded Oregon Symphony. Carlos Kalmar’s romantic, well-paced interpretations match the playing well…"
Roger Hecht – American Record Guide – May/June 2021
2020 Most Wanted
Steven Kruger – Fanfare – November/December 2020
“… Pentatone has given Carlos Kalmar and Oregon Symphony rich gleaming sound with a satisfying bass register, where much of this music spends its time… Morton Gould’s Stringmusic makes for a happy surpise…”
Steven Kruger – Fanfare – September/October 2020
"This imaginatively programmed trio of Pulitzer Prize-winning works makes for a nicely varied listen, performed with plenty of oomph, too." ****
Jeremy Pound - BBC Music magazine (Brief Notes section) - July 2020
“… Walter Piston’s Seventh Symphony won the Pulitzer in 1961 … Kalmar’s interpretation is revelatory. The Orgegon Symphony really show their mettle here, and the delicacy of their laying is as impressive as their collective vigour. Orton’s Gould’s Stringmusic is perhaps the strongest work on this vividly engineered disc … So kudos, then, to Kalmar, the Oregon Symphony and Pentatone for doing their part to keep the masters of 20th-century American symphonism from fading entirely into obscurity."
Andrew Farach-Colton – Gramophone magazine – July 2020
“These Pulitzer-winning pieces are excursions in an essentially conservative style by established figures.”
The Sunday Times (Culture magazine) – 22 March 2020
“A fine and stimulating collection of American orchestral music.”
John Quinn – MusicWeb-International.com – 13 March 2020
“… For admirers of 20th-century American symphonic music, this is a particularly attractive package. The fact that all three works won the Pulitzer Prize is not, of course, an emblem of their longevity, but all are written in the kind of broad and expansive idiom that represents American composition at its finest… The performances here are both committed and forensic in their attention to detail…”
Barry Forshaw – CDChoice.co.uk – 14 March 2020
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