Copland: Grohg/Prelude For Chamber Orchestra/hear Ye! Hear Ye! [Import]

~ Aaron Copland (Composer), Oliver Knussen (Conductor), Cleveland Orchestra (Orchestra), London Sinfonietta (Orchestra)

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Orchestra: Cleveland Orchestra, London Sinfonietta
Conductor: Oliver Knussen
Composer: Aaron Copland
Audio CD (Jan 1 1994)
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Import
Label: Argo
Run Time: 68 minutes
ASIN: B000004CW5
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1. Intro and Cort�ge. Entrance of Grohg

2. Dance of the Adolescent

3. Dance of the Opium-eater (Visions of Jazz)

4. Dance of the Street-walker

5. Grohg imagines the Dead are mocking him

6. Illumination and disappearance of Grohg

7. Prelude for Chamber Orchestra

8. Scene I (Prelude)

9. Scenes II-IV (The Courtroom; Dance...)

10. Scene V (The Night - club Hostess sworn in)

11. Scene VI (The Chorus Girls' first dance)

12. Scene VII (First Pas-de-deux)

13. Scene VIII (Pas-de-deux continued; first murder)

14. Scene IX-X (The Courtroom; The Honeymoon Couple)

15. Scene XI (The Chorus Girls dance with doves)

16. Scene XII (Second Pas-de-deux and murder)

17. Scene XIII-XIV (The Courtroom; the Waiter sworn in)

18. Scene XV (The Chorus Girls' third dance)

19. Scene XVI (Third Pas-de-deux and murder)

20. Scene XVII-XVIII (The Verdict; the Courtroom)

On this CD:

Grogh, ballet in 1 scene Revised in 1932
Composed by Aaron Copland
Performed by Cleveland Orchestra
Conducted by Oliver Knussen
Prelude for chamber orchestra (arr. from Symphony for Organ & Orchestra) Arranged in 1934
Composed by Aaron Copland
Performed by London Sinfonietta
Conducted by Oliver Knussen
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!, ballet in 2 acts Version for Small Orchestra, 1935
Composed by Aaron Copland
Performed by London Sinfonietta
Conducted by Oliver Knussen

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This music is hardly recognizable as that of America's greatest composer of ballet music. These are very early works of a composer fresh from Europe and from studying under Nadia Boulanger, who taught Copland to rely on folk sources for his music. This, for Copland, meant jazz. Grohg (written in 1922-25, revised in 1935) was Copland's first orchestral work, inspired by the German film Nosferatu, about a sorcerer bringing corpses alive to dance for his pleasure. If the only Copland you're interested in is the one who wrote Appalachian Spring, then this isn't for you. Still, the music is engaging and instructive. --Paul Cook