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BARBER / BERNSTEIN / CARTER / COPLAND / IVES
American Chamber Music American Chamber Music
James Ehnes (violin) / Seattle Chamber Music Society

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Release Date: Saturday 20 September 2014

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James Ehnes and friends from the Seattle Chamber Music Society hit the road on a fascinating journey through chamber music by some of the giants of 20th-century American classical music.

Aaron Copland's masterful Violin Sonata, Leonard Bernstein's youthful and vibrant Piano Trio, and Samuel Barber's B minor String Quartet with its famous Adagio slow movement (known the world over as 'Barber's Adagio') are joined by Elliott Carter's haunting 'Elegy' from early in his long career, and the other-worldly 'Largo' by that great maverick Charles Ives.

Tracks:

Barber, S:
String Quartet, Op. 11

Bernstein:
Piano trio

Carter, E:
Elegy

Copland:
Violin Sonata

Ives, C:
Largo for violin, clarinet and piano