The recording is clarity itself, a special asset in the Cowell suite, with its enchanting succession of percussive effects. The Ives is the sonata subtitled “Children’s Day at the Camp Meeting,” and is not played by the Ajemian sisters with quite the delightful surety they bring to the other two works maybe they were inhibited by reverence. If I may, I will describe the result as profoundly amusing, and will warn you not to miss it. There is nothing dull on this disk, but the principal attraction is the fascinating five-part suite of Henry Cowell, a chameleon of a composer here undergoing a sort of Arabian Nights transformation: Mark Twain playing Haroun-el-Raschid.
4 for Violin and Piano and Hovhaness: Kirghiz Suite (Anahid and Maro Ajemian, violin and piano, with Elden Bailey, percussion MGM E-3454: 12”). Ormandy’s Billy, on the overside, is equally crisp and delicious.Ĭowell: Set of Five with Ives: Sonata No. Further, I am sure Ormandy reads it with scrupulous accuracy, as Koussevitzky did not in his vintage version (which still enthralls me, just the same). It comes forth rich, crisp, and vivacious. The restored portions turn out not to be very important, but the Philadelphians have a marvelous time with the whole score, and so will any listener.
One was condensed and one wasn’t this is the first recording of the long form, so to speak.
#COMPOSER FERDI CROSSWORD FULL#
Aaron Copland wrote two arrangements for full orchestra of his chamber-ballet score Appalachian Spring. Main item is the Irish Suite other numbers include Serenata, Sleigh Ride, and Penny Whistle Song.Ĭopland: Appalachian Spring Billy the Kid Suite (Eugene Ormandy conducting Philadelphia Orchestra Columbia ML-5157 12”). A worthy rendition of music written purely for pleasure by an artist in whimsey. Fennell seems a trifle taut, after Anderson, but he is good all the same, and so is his ensemble. This is the highest-fi Anderson on records, and happily it does not duplicate much of the content of the second highest-fi, which is the twelve-inch Decca collection with the composer conducting. Anderson: The Music of Leroy Anderson (Frederick Fennell conducting Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestra Mercury MG-50130: 12”).
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