Antheil: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 / Storgards, BBC Philharmonic

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Label
Chandos
Release Date
November 1, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ANTHEIL, GEORGE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bbc Philharmonic
    • PERFORMER
      Storgards
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 01, 2019
    • UPC
      095115208021
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CHAN 20080
    • LABEL
      Chandos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. McKonkey's Ferry Overture

      Composer: George Antheil

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: John Storgårds

    2. I. The Tailor Shop: Moderato

      Composer: George Antheil

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: John Storgårds

    3. II. Meditation: Lento, poco rubato, expressivo

      Composer: George Antheil

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: John Storgårds

    4. III. Knife Dance and Farruca: Allegro con fuoco -

      Composer: George Antheil

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: John Storgårds

    5. III. Knife Dance and Farruca: Più mosso

      Composer: George Antheil

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: John Storgårds

    6. The Golden Bird (version for orchestra)

      Composer: George Antheil

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: John Storgårds

    7. Nocturne in Skyrockets

      Composer: George Antheil

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: John Storgårds

    8. I. Innocènte

      Composer: George Antheil

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: John Storgårds

    9. II. Vivo, alla zingaresco, poi ragtime

      Composer: George Antheil

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: John Storgårds

    10. III. Doloroso elevato

      Composer: George Antheil

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: John Storgårds

    11. IV. Ragtime

      Composer: George Antheil

      Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: John Storgårds


The third volume in this series of the music of George Antheil includes his ‘Capital of the World’ Suite and the first symphony. George Antheil first studied composition in Philadelphia with Constantin von Sternberg, a former pupil of Liszt’s, who made his teenage student spend an entire year writing a series of fugues based on the same theme. In 1919, he went on to study with Ernest Bloch. Under Bloch’s tutelage, Antheil quickly fulfilled his ambition to write a symphony inspired by the New Jersey milieu in which he had grown up: this marked a deliberate abandonment of academic compositional techniques in favor of music driven by emotional and atmospheric stimuli. Antheil based his ballet Capital of the World on a 1936 Ernest Hemingway short story entitled “The Horns of the Bull,” which tells the tale of a young Spanish boy who works as a waiter in a hotel in Madrid, but dreams of becoming a matador.

REVIEW:

As with the previous instalments in this ongoing retrospective, the performances are superb and vividly recorded. Again, Storgårds is generally more incisive and emotionally generous than Hugh Wolff, whose Antheil series for CPO set a high bar.

– Gramophone