The Copland Corral

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Ken B

Quote from: Mirror Image on September 28, 2014, 03:25:25 PM
I bought this set earlier today:



Do any of you guys own it? What do you think of the music? I haven't one performance of any Copland chamber work in my collection unless we count the original version of Appalachian Spring. :)

Ummm, John? You own it. We are awaiting a report from you.

Mirror Image

Quote from: Ken B on September 28, 2014, 03:31:36 PM
Ummm, John? You own it. We are awaiting a report from you.

I don't own it yet. I just bought it today, so it should be shipped out soon. :)

Leo K.


Quote from: Mirror Image on September 28, 2014, 03:25:25 PM
I bought this set earlier today:



Do any of you guys own it? What do you think of the music? I haven't one performance of any Copland chamber work in my collection unless we count the original version of Appalachian Spring. :)

Yes John I have that one, I absolutely enjoy and dearly love Copland's chamber music, this is a real fine disk, essential even!

Mirror Image

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Quote from: Leo K. on September 28, 2014, 07:19:16 PM
Yes John I have that one, I absolutely enjoy and dearly love Copland's chamber music, this is a real fine disk, essential even!

A Leo sighting! Great to hear. I hope all is well with you. I haven't seen you around for quite some time. I see you still have the Sessions avatar. :)

Leo K.


Quote from: Mirror Image on September 28, 2014, 07:54:46 PM
A Leo sighting! Great to hear. I hope all is well with you. I haven't seen you around for quite some time. I see you still have the Sessions avatar. :)

Thanks John! Everything is well! I wish the same for you, I look forward to hearing your thoughts about Copland's chamber music, I'll have to pull my copy out to hear again :)

Peter Power Pop

Quote from: Catison on April 18, 2007, 01:47:27 PM
If you want to hear the original chamber version of the complete ballet, I would highly (highly!) recommend this disc by Hugh Wolff and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.



The score is incredibly well recorded with all the detail you could ever want.  It is very delicate and tender, as I believe Copland intended it.  I listen to this version all the time, and it is one of my favorite recordings of anything.  Plus you get a second disc of songs.

I bought the original single-disc release of the Wolff Appalachian Spring, and love it. So I'll second that vote.



I think I might also need to buy the companion disc that makes up the second part of that double-disc set.

American Songs, here we come!


Mirror Image

I bought that Wolff set tonight and have heard nothing but great things about it.

Mirror Image

Quote from: Leo K. on September 30, 2014, 04:11:04 PM
Thanks John! Everything is well! I wish the same for you, I look forward to hearing your thoughts about Copland's chamber music, I'll have to pull my copy out to hear again :)

Kudos, Leo. BTW, what some of your top 5 Copland works? And this question goes for every Copland fan here as well. I'll have to come back to this question as I'm still not familiar with his chamber output.

Peter Power Pop

Quote from: Mirror Image on September 30, 2014, 05:50:48 PM
I bought that Wolff set tonight and have heard nothing but great things about it.

Excellent.

Mirror Image

Quote from: Peter Power Pop on September 30, 2014, 06:24:00 PM
Excellent.

Interestingly enough, Hugh Wolff is featured in some commentary in the documentary Copland: A Fanfare For America. I need to pick this documentary up at some point, which in Mirror Image language it means right now! :)

Mirror Image

#210
Come on everybody! What are your Top 5 Copland works?

Even though I said I wasn't going to participate, I'll go ahead just for the sake of getting the ball rolling...

1. Appalachian Spring (love both arrangements)
2. Billy the Kid
3. Clarinet Concerto
4. Symphony No. 3
5. Dance Panels

*This list is always subject to change.

Karl Henning

Sextet
Symphony № 3
Billy the Kid
Piano Fantasy
Connotations
Inscape
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Mirror Image

Quote from: karlhenning on October 01, 2014, 07:28:49 AM
Sextet
Symphony № 3
Billy the Kid
Piano Fantasy
Connotations
Inscape


Sweet, Karl! I can't wait to re-listen to Sextet as it's been years. Haven't heard Piano Fantasy unfortunately. :( Connotations and Inscape are two very good works indeed. I was just listening to them last night actually.

Mirror Image

It seems Copland's Piano Concerto doesn't get much love around here as I think it should. Another work I really enjoy is Music For A Great City, which I listened to last night. It's been awhile since I had heard that work. Orchestral Variations is of course another favorite. I love how Copland could be downright confrontational in tone but always seem to maintain some kind of accessibility and, most of all, a purpose in direction.

vandermolen

Symphony 3
Symphonic Ode
Quiet City
Lincoln Portrait (OK, I know it verges on kitsch and the narration is full of non-sequiturs but it always moves me)
The Tender Land (Orchestral Suite)
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

Quote from: vandermolen on October 01, 2014, 08:42:32 AM
Symphony 3
Symphonic Ode
Quiet City
Lincoln Portrait (OK, I know it verges on kitsch and the narration is full of non-sequiturs but it always moves me)
The Tender Land (Orchestral Suite)

Bonus=Symphony for Organ and Orchestra.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Peter Power Pop

#216
Quote from: Mirror Image on October 01, 2014, 07:24:42 AM
Come on everybody! What are your Top 5 Copland works?

Even though I said I wasn't going to participate, I'll go ahead just for the sake of getting the ball rolling...

1. Appalachian Spring (love both arrangements)
2. Billy the Kid
3. Clarinet Concerto
4. Symphony No. 3
5. Dance Panels

*This list is always subject to change.

For me:

1. Appalachian Spring (any version)
http://www.youtube.com/v/rI4DkYyIoDE


2. Quiet City
http://www.youtube.com/v/s_MxTZlYL14


3. Three Piano Excerpts from Our Town
http://www.youtube.com/v/iJFOnhX5rwQ


4. An Outdoor Overture
http://www.youtube.com/v/6AhdFW6QWEM


5. The Red Pony
http://www.youtube.com/v/EHmWiWfg9zE


Honorary No. 5:

Clarinet Concerto
http://www.youtube.com/v/PmMFL1zZ-tU


Another honorary No. 5:

Lincoln Portrait
http://www.youtube.com/v/Cs6cIi_mKfg

Leo K.

Off the top of my head!

Symphony No.3
Connotations
Rodeo
Red Pony
Lincoln Portrait

Mirror Image

Quote from: vandermolen on October 01, 2014, 08:42:32 AM
Symphony 3
Symphonic Ode
Quiet City
Lincoln Portrait (OK, I know it verges on kitsch and the narration is full of non-sequiturs but it always moves me)
The Tender Land (Orchestral Suite)

Nice list, Jeffrey. I love The Tender Land Suite. Absolutely gorgeous. Symphonic Ode is also a great one.