American Classics (Incls Stars and Stripes Forever, Fanfare for the Common Man & Rhapsody in Blue)

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AMERICAN CLASSICS
American Classics (Incls Stars and Stripes Forever, Fanfare for the Common Man & Rhapsody in Blue)
Various Artists including Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphnoy Orchestra, etc

[ Chandos 241 / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Friday 1 April 2005

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A unique collection which captures America's pioneering spirit, this survey presents Copland's 'Fanfare for a Common Man', Barber's 'Adagio for Strings' and Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' alongside other perennial favourites.

Two discs for the price of one.

'Chandos plunders its American back-catalogue for this attractive and rather handy sampler of 20th-century Americana.'
Classic FM Magazine

Tracks:

COMPACT DISC ONE
Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man
John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Duke Ellington - Do Nothin'Till You Hear From Me
John Philip Sousa - The Stars and Stripes Forever
George Gershwin - 'Promenade' from Walking the Dog
Duke Ellington - 'Giggling Rapids' from The River
Leonard Bernstein - 'Riffs' from Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
Duke Ellington - Solitude
Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, Op. 11
Gian Carlo Menotti - Pavane from Sebastian
Morton Gould - Gospel Train
Duke Ellington - 'Meander' from The River
William Grant Still - Mvt II from Symphony No. 2 (Song of a New Race)
John Philip Sousa - Washington Post
George Gershwin - Girl Crazy Overture
John Philip Sousa - Liberty Bell

COMPACT DISC TWO
George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
Anon - Steal Away to Jesus (American Spiritual)
George Gershwin - Summertime
Samuel Barber - 'Must the winter come so soon?' from Vanessa
George Gershwin - 'Porgy Sings' from Catfish Row
Steve Reich - Nagoya Marimbas
William Grant Still - Mvt III from Symphony No. 1 (Afro-American)
Samuel Barber - Intermezzo from Vanessa
Leonard Bernstein - 'America' from West Side Story
George Gershwin - 'It ain't Necessarily So' from Porgy and Bess
Aaron Copland - Mvt II from Concerto for Clarinet
Duke Ellington - 'Riba' from The River
Aaron Copland - 'Simple Gifts' from Old American Songs, Set I
Leonard Bernstein - 'Blues' from Divertimento
George Gershwin - Strike up the Band Overture