Elegy in Memory of Serge Koussevitsky for orchestra, Op 44
Dies Natalis I, for orchestra
These Howard Hanson recordings by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra under their champion of American music, Gerard Schwarz, were originally made in 1991 as part of a large Hanson cycle released by the Delos label around that time. They did not ignite a real revival of this "American Romantic," but neither has his music died out; it's wonderfully orchestrated and has a certain honest quality that has made it wear well even if there's a shortage of really memorable melody. The producers of this Naxos reissue have combined works ...
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These Howard Hanson recordings by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra under their champion of American music, Gerard Schwarz, were originally made in 1991 as part of a large Hanson cycle released by the Delos label around that time. They did not ignite a real revival of this "American Romantic," but neither has his music died out; it's wonderfully orchestrated and has a certain honest quality that has made it wear well even if there's a shortage of really memorable melody. The producers of this Naxos reissue have combined works from several different Delos releases, resulting in a program with a common focus that brings out the best in Hanson's music. All of these works are of a memorial or somehow otherwise religious cast. The Symphony No. 4 ("Requiem"), entirely orchestral, was written after the death of the composer's father and takes its movement titles from those of sections of the Requiem mass. Here and elsewhere, Hanson combines his late Romantic language (Sibelius, mostly, with dashes of Vaughan...
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