Special offer. Copland: Rodeo
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
There's vintage Copland here, and Leonard Slatkin is a persuasive advocate; but the full-size string section of the Detroit Symphony occasionally swamps details...this is an enjoyable programme;...
Special offer. Copland: Rodeo
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
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There's vintage Copland here, and Leonard Slatkin is a persuasive advocate; but the full-size string section of the Detroit Symphony occasionally swamps details...this is an enjoyable programme;...
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While Copland’s hugely successful celebration of the American West, Rodeo, has become an American classic, Dance Panels is barely known despite working beautifully as a concert work. Based on popular Mexican melodies, the glittering, even exotic El Salón Mexico is one of Copland’s most frequently performed works. Of his rhythmically complex Danzón Cubano, inspired by a visit to a dance hall in Cuba, in which there were two orchestras playing at both ends, the composer himself wrote: “I did not attempt to reproduce an authentic Cuban sound but felt free to add my own touches of displaced accents and unexpected silent beats.” GRAMMY® Award-winning conductor Leonard Slatkin’s recording of Copland’s Lincoln Portrait (8559373-74) received “the kind of performance that brought tears to my eyes” (Audiophile Audition).
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Aaron Copland
9th Jan 2015
James selects some of his favourite recordings of the music of the quintessentially American composer, Aaron Copland.
Awards and reviews
August 2013
There's vintage Copland here, and Leonard Slatkin is a persuasive advocate; but the full-size string section of the Detroit Symphony occasionally swamps details...this is an enjoyable programme; and Dance Panels is certainly worth discovering.
2nd July 2013
these are really classy performances, brimming with style, wit and poetry...Slatkin and his orchestra turn in a brilliantly idiomatic reading [of Rodeo], matched by a perfectly balanced recording.
January 2015
Leonard Slatkin conducts the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a lively performance of the complete Rodeo, (including the Ranch House Party movement omitted from the Four Dance Episodes ), featuring a witty, laid-back Hoe-Down. There's also a fantastic, Mariachi-inspired trumpet solo in El Salón México, and a catchily toe-tapping rendition of Danzón Cubano.
22nd June 2013
There’s so much to admire here; an immaculately played, sensationally recorded anthology of Copland orchestral music...All immaculate, though lacking the touch of wildness which Bernstein and Tilson Thomas displayed on their recordings. But, at this price, who’s complaining?
