New Jersey-based label Phoenix, like its namesake, raises significant classical recordings from the ashes. With the inelegantly titled Harrison/Ung/McPhee, Phoenix manages to resurrect one of the finest recordings of contemporary music to appear on a major label in the 1990s, a 1994 effort by the American Composers Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies that originally appeared on U.K. Decca's imprint Argo. It features the Suite for Symphonic Strings of Lou Harrison, originally commissioned for the Louisville Orchestra in ...
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New Jersey-based label Phoenix, like its namesake, raises significant classical recordings from the ashes. With the inelegantly titled Harrison/Ung/McPhee, Phoenix manages to resurrect one of the finest recordings of contemporary music to appear on a major label in the 1990s, a 1994 effort by the American Composers Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies that originally appeared on U.K. Decca's imprint Argo. It features the Suite for Symphonic Strings of Lou Harrison, originally commissioned for the Louisville Orchestra in 1961 and first recorded under Robert Whitney for the orchestra's own label. The Suite for Symphonic Strings is one of Harrison's characteristic suites, cobbled together out of various movements ranging from throughout his career. However, this particular suite is one of his most successful efforts in that vein, and Harrison utilizes tasteful percussion to underscore imaginative tropes of old dance forms, ranging from French renaissance dances to the music evocative of Pacific Rim...
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Add this copy of McPhee: Tabuh-Tabuhan, Lou Harrison: Suite for to cart. $10.98, like new condition, Sold by Streetlight_Records rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Cruz, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Phoenix USA.
