Copland: Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes / Dance Panels / El Salón México / Danzón Cubano
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AARON COPLAND
Copland: Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes / Dance Panels / El Salón México / Danzón Cubano
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 23 July 2013
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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).
"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." (Musicweb international)
"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?" (the Arts Desk)
"While performances do not disappoint - Slatkin and his players make a finely-tuned team - the choice of works on the disc is canny." (William Dart NZ Herald)
Tracks:
Rodeo (Four Dance Episodes)
Dance Panels
El Salón México
Danzon Cubano
