Bridge Records' American Tone Poems is a collection drawn from the pool of recordings produced in the late '60s by the Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage. The Society's orchestral recordings, all conducted by Karl Krueger and originally issued on LPs, have heretofore not been well treated in the CD era, being mostly disseminated in the form of a cheap and ugly series entitled Our Musical Past that thankfully now itself belongs to the past. Bridge's series does far more to extend to this pioneering ...
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Bridge Records' American Tone Poems is a collection drawn from the pool of recordings produced in the late '60s by the Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage. The Society's orchestral recordings, all conducted by Karl Krueger and originally issued on LPs, have heretofore not been well treated in the CD era, being mostly disseminated in the form of a cheap and ugly series entitled Our Musical Past that thankfully now itself belongs to the past. Bridge's series does far more to extend to this pioneering group of recordings some measure of the respect it deserves, with appealing cover images, excellent annotation, historic photos, and first-rate audio restoration; the original LPs appeared in plain stock jackets with nothing more than a paper insert for the notes. Krueger leads the Royal Philharmonic, at the time still Sir Thomas Beecham's orchestra though he had been gone for some years, and there are hints of telltale scrappiness here and there. But the whole SPAMH series was a...
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Edward Burlingame Hill; Horatio Parker; John Alden Carpenter; Louis Adolphe Coerne. New. New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA. US orders only please.
