Harrison: Music For Orchestra, Ensemble & Gamelan / Davies, Brooklyn Philharmonic

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Lou Harrison was born in Portland, Oregon in 1917. His musical style was shaped by the San Francisco of the 1930s. There he studied composition with Henry Cowell, and staged high profile percussion concerts with John Cage. He spent the year 1942-43 in Los Angeles where he studied with Arnold Schoenberg. In 1946, Harrison conducted the premiere of Ives's Third Symphony which he had edited from the manuscript score. The following year Ives was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this work which he shared with Harrison.

During trips to Japan, Korea and Taiwan in 1961-62, he studied native instruments including the cheng and the p'iri. Back in California he enthusiastically presented concerts and lectures on Korean and Chinese music and experimented in his own works with hybrid instrumental ensembles. In 1975, Harrison began an intensive study of traditional Javanese gamelan techniques. He soon began to explore ideas of cross fertilization, adapting the concerto principle to the Indonesian orchestra by composing works for Western soloists accompanied by gamelan. Harrison died in Lafayette, Indiana, 2003, from a heart attack while on his way to a festival of his music at Ohio State University.

This 4 CD set brings together all the works recorded in the USA for the MusicMasters label during the early 1990s.

REVIEW:

Fans will be ecstatic that these recordings return to the catalogue; newcomers will find a lot of attractive low-density music that always sounds beguiling and is easy to live with.

-- Gramophone



Product Description:


  • Release Date: September 07, 2010


  • Catalog Number: NI2571-74


  • UPC: 710357257124


  • Label: Nimbus


  • Number of Discs: 4


  • Period: 20th Century


  • Composer: Lou Harrison


  • Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies


  • Orchestra/Ensemble: Berkeley Chamber Chorus, Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, Cabrillo Music Festival Orchestra, Gamelan Si Betty


  • Performer: Adam Gordon, Daniel Kennedy, Daniel Kobialka, David Rosenthal, Dennis Russell Davies, Emily Wong George, Henry Spiller, Jody Diamond, Keith Jarrett, Lee Duckles, Leta Miller, Milton Williams, Nohema Fernandez, Peter Shelton, Randy Masters, Robert Hughes, Robert Strizich, Romuald Tecco, Scott Evans, Stephen Tramontazzi, Todd Manley, William Trimble, William Winant, Yvonne Powers