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Paul Gambill, Nashville Chamber Orchestra - Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring, Clarinet Concerto, Quiet City (2002)

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Paul Gambill, Nashville Chamber Orchestra - Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring, Clarinet Concerto, Quiet City (2002)

Paul Gambill, Nashville Chamber Orchestra - Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring, Clarinet Concerto, Quiet City (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 250 Mb | Total time: 62:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.559069 | Recorded: 2001

This disc substantially duplicates the repertoire on an all-Copland program produced by DG with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. However, where DG included the Short Symphony, Naxos offers the Clarinet Concerto. While the Nashville Chamber Orchestra doesn’t offer quite the tonal refinement and polish of Orpheus, it basically plays just as well, and its slightly weightier, gutsier, more rustic sonority arguably suits the music even better. In the famous rehearsal disc that accompanied Copland’s own recording of the original chamber version of Appalachian Spring, he can be heard exhorting his players not to sentimentalize the music: “…it’s a little too much on the Massenet-side,” he tells them. Obviously Paul Gambill understands this point, for he offers interpretations ideally poised between warmth and simplicity, full of those clean and clear sonorities that Copland made his own.

Kenneth Schermerhorn, Nashville Symphony Orchestra - Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story (2002)

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Kenneth Schermerhorn, Nashville Symphony Orchestra - Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story (2002)

Kenneth Schermerhorn, Nashville Symphony Orchestra - Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story (The Original Score) (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 388 Mb | Total time: 75:16 | Scans included
Classical, Musical | Label: Naxos | # 8.559126 | Recorded: 2001

This new West Side Story, the first American-based recording to appear since DG’s star-studded 1985 composer-conducted version, blessedly avoids that earlier production’s operatic pretensions, returning instead to the work’s Broadway roots by using young, theatrically trained singers with some genuine acting ability. Even with that, it’s probably wishful thinking to expect that this cast (fine as it is) can recreate the vibrant, raw freshness and scintillating brilliance of the original. Mike Eldred’s Tony comes off best; singing with a more mature sound than Larry Kert, he nonetheless creates a sense of heightened expectancy and wonder in “Something’s Coming”.

Nashville SO; Giancarlo Guerrero - Terry Riley: The Palmian Chord Ryddle; At the Royal Majestic (2017)

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Nashville SO; Giancarlo Guerrero - Terry Riley: The Palmian Chord Ryddle; At the Royal Majestic (2017)

Terry Riley: The Palmian Chord Ryddle; At the Royal Majestic (2017)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor
Tracy Silverman, electric violin; Todd Wilson, organ

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 324 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Modern Creative | Label: Naxos | # 8.559739 | 01:09:19

Terry Riley’s name will always be associated with his breakthrough work In C, but his influence on modern music has stretched far beyond minimalism. Both of the works on this recording reveal Riley’s spirit of exploration and his close collaboration with remarkable musicians. Commissioned by the Nashville Symphony, The Palmian Chord Ryddle is a kind of musical autobiography in which electric violin pioneer Tracy Silverman’s “one-man string quartet” sets the pace for the sparse, translucent orchestration. At the Royal Majestic is another recent example of Riley’s work with a symphony orchestra and a virtuosic soloist, in this case organist Todd Wilson. Its title refers to “the mighty Wurlitzer housed in grand movie palaces,” and the music draws on a wide variety of genres including gospel, ragtime, Baroque chorales, and boogie.