Copland: Clarinet Concerto/Appalachian Spring/...

The four works on this disc - all composed in the 1940s - embrace the lingering end of one musical tradition and the vigorous upsurge of another. Mellifluous, retrospective and playful, the 'Duet Concertino' and 'Prelude' to 'Capriccio' were works of Richard Strauss's Indian Summer - an old man's refuge from the barbarism of war and its aftermath. What the public thought of them was incidental, even irrelevant. In the same decade, Aaron Copland and other younger American composers were reaching out, via radio, recordings and film, to a new mass audience. The European influence of 'Appalachian Spring' and the 'Clarinet Concerto', though inescapable, was minimised in a populist, vernacular idiom that absorbed native folk music and jazz.

1: I. Allegro Moderato
2: II. Andante
3: III. Allegro Ma Non Troppo
4: Prelude
5: I. Slowly and Expressively
6: II. Rather Fast
7: I. Very Slowly
8: II. Fast
9: III. Moderate
10: IV. Quite Fast
11: V. Still Faster
12: VI. Very Slowly (As at First)
13: VII. Calm and Flowing
14: VIII. Moderate. Coda

Composer: Richard Strauss, Aaron Copland

Conductor: Richard Stamp

Number of Discs: 1

Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia, Academy Of London

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