Copland: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 - Symphonies (2018)

The Chandos label's cycle of Aaron Copland's orchestral works is timely and valuable, reminding listeners of where so much contemporary concert music came from (and not only in the U.S.), and bringing neglected works to light. There's an especially nice example on this third volume by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under John Wilson: Statements, which sounds like a product of Copland's late serialist period, but was actually written in the 1930s, just before the composer devised his big nationalist sound. With its angular ... Read More

The Chandos label's cycle of Aaron Copland's orchestral works is timely and valuable, reminding listeners of where so much contemporary concert music came from (and not only in the U.S.), and bringing neglected works to light. There's an especially nice example on this third volume by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under John Wilson: Statements, which sounds like a product of Copland's late serialist period, but was actually written in the 1930s, just before the composer devised his big nationalist sound. With its angular lines and its elliptical, single-word movement titles (you could sample "Jingo," which sounds almost like an American counterpart to the brash young Shostakovich), you might think Statements inhabited a different world from Rodeo and Appalachian Spring. In fact, it has everything to do with those later works; its economical angular lines were essential to what Copland would do next, and the nicely controlled performance here by Wilson and the BBCers is worth the price of admission in... Read Less

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