Anderson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 (Incls 'Plink, Plank, Plunk!' & 'The Syncopated Clock')

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LEROY ANDERSON
Anderson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 (Incls 'Plink, Plank, Plunk!' & 'The Syncopated Clock')
BBC Concert Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin (with Catherine Moore, trumpet)

[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 1 July 2008

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"A great disc - and I am looking forward to what I imagine will be the fourth and final CD?"
(MusicWeb July 2008)

"It is self-evident that Leonard Slatkin and the 'band' enjoy themselves playing this music. There is, I guess, an ever-present danger that players could be condescending to Anderson's music when they have perhaps been wrestling with Mahler, Boulez or Pärt. However, in this recording, every note is taken seriously and every bar is chock-full of 'pizzazz'. A great disc - and I am looking forward to what I imagine will be the fourth and final CD?"
(MusicWeb July 2008)

Leroy Anderson etched out his own unique place in American music - a composer rigorously trained in the classical tradition whose records topped the pop charts, a meticulous arranger of music whose own melodies were crafted with inventive precision. Here, in the first complete cycle of Anderson's orchestral music, the Anderson family has made available several pieces that the composer did not release, with some first recordings scattered among the familiar and not-so-familiar titles. Volume Three includes the notorious musical gem The Typewriter, in which the machine is transformed into a relentlessly busy percussion instrument, the tasteful and soul-satisfying Suite of Carols for Brass Choir, and Anderson's biggest hit, Sleigh Ride.

Tracks:

Harvard Sketches
Melody on 2 Notes
Mother's Whistler
The Penny-Whistle Song
The Phantom Regiment
Plink, Plank, Plunk!
Promenade
Sandpaper Ballet
Saraband
Serenata
Old Macdonald had a Farm
The Music Man
Sleigh Ride
Suite of Carols
Of Thee I sing: Wintergreen for President
The Typewriter
A Trumpeter's Lullaby
The Syncopated Clock