The brief Woodbury Fanfare that opens Naxos' Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2, could almost be said to herald the sound of the floodgates opening, as this disc, performed in expertly idiomatic fashion by the BBC Concert Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, introduces five Anderson compositions never before heard on recordings. Given the relatively high concentration of Anderson's attention into short pieces, one might get the mistaken impression -- not discouraged by Anderson himself -- of a Sunday composer who knocked ...
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The brief Woodbury Fanfare that opens Naxos' Leroy Anderson: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2, could almost be said to herald the sound of the floodgates opening, as this disc, performed in expertly idiomatic fashion by the BBC Concert Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, introduces five Anderson compositions never before heard on recordings. Given the relatively high concentration of Anderson's attention into short pieces, one might get the mistaken impression -- not discouraged by Anderson himself -- of a Sunday composer who knocked off pieces here and there as a form of recreation. Nothing would be further from the truth; he was a notoriously hard-working composer who also created numerous occasional pieces and arrangements for the Boston Pops that were played once or twice, tucked in a drawer, and never revisited. These range very widely in expression and purpose; A Harvard Festival (1969) is a sturdy and solid revision of a work written in the 1930s and based on Harvard student songs. By comparison, Whistling...
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