I found it quite by accident . I have listened I don't no how many times. The finale is one of the most beautiful I have heard. On RU-vid it has introduced other composers that I have never heard of.
Let me add my 2¢. All Walter Piston music is exceptional and so well crafted. This is probably his best symphony. Followed by #2 and #6. But i love them all. A great performance of course. His orchestrations are magnificent. Witty , melodic but acerbic but accessable but fun but pensive. Ok. Thats my 10¢ in. Thanks.
Walter Piston is one of the greats . I ❤ all his music. A very distinct style. For me personally, the American big three are Copland , Piston, Barber. (Diamond, Menin , Bernstein, Harris , Schuman, Rorem ,Creston , Korngold , Persichetti.), etc.
I was there...I worked in the health care field back East when it all hit. Recently, this as being played on the radio as I drove back through the neighborhoods where I provided home care to the dear ones. We worked desperately to slow the disease process. This effected everyone, and this symphony takes you right back. Thank you.
Excellent performance of this work. Great recording and mixing, as well. Quite an adventure through this varied musical landscape, with no shortage of surprises jumping out at every corner along the way.
Not boring to listen to. Numerous tasty constructions along the journey through this piece, like jewels scattered along a dimly lit path meandering through a dark forest.
Hi, MrWalkingbass. There are 7 tracks left from the original album. I was looking for It's impossible and Yesterday I heard the rain, but didn't find them. Why is that happens? Is there any way for having the full album? Thanks.
Oh que j’aime cette Symphony ! J’ai écouté de la musique toute ma vie, de Armstrong à Albinoni à Jarre à Gagnon et à 84 ans je fais encore des découvertes. Merci à la puissante Hélène Grimaud qui vient de me faire connaître Esa Pakka Salonen, Arvo Pärt et John Corigliano.
After playing his symphony for band in my high school wind ensemble, persichetti is definitely my favorite composer. Work to work, and he continues to amaze me. side note: the intro sounds very similar to Mahler 9 IV
I think it would have been fascinating if Jaqueline Du Pre had had a chance to play Schnittke's Cello Concertos. I think of her because these pieces are so full on and demand so much from the performer. They are also quite quite fantastic. There is also about them often a sense of devastated romanticism.
American composers as a whole are disgracefully underrated. Samuel Barber is one of the 20th Century's greatest composers, and there are many others whose music deserves to be performed and recorded much more often -- not only Walter Piston but also Aaron Copland, David Diamond, George Frederick McKay, Alan Hovhaness, George Rochberg, and even the eccentric Avram Avshalomov, among others. And, being British, I have no personal bias here. Only Barber perhaps rises to the level of Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Britten, and Tippett, but their music is very much worth listening to nonetheless.
George Crumb. Also since you're British, you might be interested in Marcus Tristan - a British composer and virtual unknown who spent most of his career working in the East. There are midi renditions of two of his symphonies on his RU-vid channel, as well as electroacoustic pieces, and midi selections from his other symphonies.
I am learning from this guy. Very technical and expressive at the same time. Musicians loves this kind of challenge as much as they enjoy Mahler. Nice work of music.
