Naxos
American Classics - Piston: Violin Concertos /Buswell, Et Al
$19.99
Details
- Composer
- PISTON
- Artist
- Theodore, James, Kuchar, Buswell
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Naxos
- Released
- Oct 01, 1999
- Catalog #
- 8559003
- UPC
- 636943900321
About
Walter Piston was one of the more influential American musicians of the twentieth century. For nearly four decades he was a mainstay of the Harvard Music Department, authoring a series of widely used textbooks and teaching generations of composers. Like many Americans who went to Paris in the 1920s he fell under the influence of Stravinsky and neoclassicism and it was that aesthetic that prevailed at Harvard and in Piston's own composition.
Piston worked in all the formal genres, leaving a substantial legacy of quartets, symphonies and concertos. His two violin concertos are among his most important works and Naxos has provided an invaluable service by placing both on one disc, along with the later Fantasia, as part of their American Classics series. The performances by erstwhile prodigy James Buswell are strong, he is able to get inside these cerebral scores and light the fires within. Theodore Kuchar and the Ukraine National Symphony lend solid support and the recording is first rate.
Piston worked in all the formal genres, leaving a substantial legacy of quartets, symphonies and concertos. His two violin concertos are among his most important works and Naxos has provided an invaluable service by placing both on one disc, along with the later Fantasia, as part of their American Classics series. The performances by erstwhile prodigy James Buswell are strong, he is able to get inside these cerebral scores and light the fires within. Theodore Kuchar and the Ukraine National Symphony lend solid support and the recording is first rate.
Tracklist 7 tracks
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1 I Allegro energico 08:21
- Track
- 1
- Title
- I Allegro energico
- Duration
- 08:21
- Composer
- Walter Piston
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2 II Andantino molto tranquillo 06:35
- Track
- 2
- Title
- II Andantino molto tranquillo
- Duration
- 06:35
- Composer
- Walter Piston
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3 III Allegro con spririto 06:49
- Track
- 3
- Title
- III Allegro con spririto
- Duration
- 06:49
- Composer
- Walter Piston
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4 Fantasia for Violin and Orchestra 14:39
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Fantasia for Violin and Orchestra
- Duration
- 14:39
- Composer
- Walter Piston
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5 I Moderato 08:03
- Track
- 5
- Title
- I Moderato
- Duration
- 08:03
- Composer
- Walter Piston
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6 II Adagio 11:09
- Track
- 6
- Title
- II Adagio
- Duration
- 11:09
- Composer
- Walter Piston
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7 III Allegro 05:27
- Track
- 7
- Title
- III Allegro
- Duration
- 05:27
- Composer
- Walter Piston