David Craighead, Robert Shewan - Howard Hanson: An American Romantic (1981/2014) [DSD256]

• Title: Howard Hanson: An American Romantic
  
• Year Of Release: 1981/2014
  
• Label: HDTT [HDTT1477]
  
• Genre: Classical
  
• Quality: DSD256 (.dsf) 1 bit/11.28 MHz
  
• Total Time: 01:08:57
  
• Total Size: 6,12 GB (+3%rec.)
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

Composer, conductor, educator, and music theorist Howard Hanson (1896-1981) was, indeed, an “American romantic.” He was among the last of the breed, a kind of twentieth-century throwback to the nineteenth century, so you’ll find little of the avant-garde here, the experimental, the dissonant, the discordant, the odd, the atonal, or the eccentric. Yet as a prizewinning composer and director of the Eastman School of Music for over forty years, he continually championed new American music (Copland, Barber, Carter, Thomson, Sessions, Harris, etc.). On the present album, recorded over thirty years ago, released on the Albany label, and here remastered from the original tapes by HDTT (High Definition Tape Masters), we hear a lighter side of the composer, chamber and choral music mainly. It is not among his most-popular material nor is it his best, but some of it can be downright entertaining, and HDTT’s recording quality, as always, is excellent.


Tracks:

01-Ballet Suite for Nymphs and Satyr
02-Concerto da Camera in C for Piano and String Quartet
03-Concerto for Organ, Harp and String Orchestra
04-Two Yuletide Pieces for Piano Solo
05-Four Pieces for Chorus: A Prayer of the Middle Ages
06-How Excellent Thy Name
07-I will Lift up Mine Eyes
08-Praise Ye the Lord

Personnel:

David Craighead - organ
Brian Preston - piano
Eileen Malone - harp
Meliora Quartet - piano
Theodore Sipes - baritone
Barbara Harbach - organ
Rochester Chamber Orchestra - Conducted by David Fetler
Roberts Wesleyan College Chorale - Conducted by Robert Shewan

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