First Edition Music: World Premier Collection

Lynn Harrell (Performer), Henry Cowell (Composer), Lou Harrison (Composer), Alan Hovhaness (Composer), Luigi Dallapiccola (Composer), Walter Piston (Composer), Roy Harris (Composer), Heitor Villa-Lobos (Composer), Andrzej Panufnik (Composer), Toshiro Mayuzumi (Composer), George Crumb (Composer), Ned Rorem (Composer), John Corigliano (Composer), Karel Husa (Composer), Christopher Rouse (Composer), Joan Tower (Composer), Tobias Picker (Composer), John [1] Harbison (Composer), Jorge Mester (Conductor), Robert Whitney (Conductor)

Product Details

• Performer: Lynn Harrell
• Conductor: Jorge Mester, Robert Whitney
• Composer: Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison, Alan Hovhaness, Luigi Dallapiccola, Walter Piston, et al.
• Audio CD (March 1, 2005)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: First Edition
• ASIN: B0007DA4GA
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #204,184 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 3 for orchestra, HC 660: Part One

2. Suite for Symphonic Strings, for string orchestra: In Honor of Apollo

3. Symphony No.15 ('Silver Pilgrimage'), Op. 199: 1. Mt. Ravanna

4. Variazioni for orchestra: 1. Quasi lento, misterioso

5. Serenata for orchestra: 2. Con sentimento

6. Concerto for violin & orchestra: Section Four

7. Danças africanas, for orchestra ('Danses des indiens métis du Brésil'), A. 107: 3rd Movement

8. Sinfonia Elegiaca (Symphony No. 2): 3. Molto andante

9. Pieces for prepared piano & strings: 2. Interlude

10. Echoes of Time and the River (Echoes II), for orchestra: 1. Frozen Time

11. Piano Concerto No.3 in Six Movements: 3. Whispers

12. Gazebo Dances, arrangement for orchestra: 4. Tarantella

13. Trojan Women, ballet,: 5. Scene 4

14. Phantasmata, for orchestra with augmented percussion: The Infernal Machine

15. Silver Ladders for orchestra: Section 3

16. Symphony No. 2 for soprano & orchestra ('Aussöhnung'): 1st Movement

17. Ulysses' Bow, ballet: Scene 5. Reunion

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An invaluable collection, August 3, 2009

By	alk bender (Marshfield, WI) - See all my reviews

This is a great collection of 20th century classical music, and a great place to start for people interested in lesser known composers. Although this is all modern music, there is quite a bit of variety in this collection: Hymn tand Fuguing tune is folksy americana, Danses Africaines sounds a little like the I Love Lucy theme at times, Gazebo Dances is tonal and accessable while being full of rhythmic vitality, while Echoes of Time and the River sounds other-wordly.

All these recordings are analog, some even from the '50s, but I think that the sound is still very good; even though you can tell these recordings are old, it never distracts from the music.

I definately recommend this CD, and at such a low price, you don't have much to lose.