AH! This is thee classic standard recording via Dr. Hanson and the Eastman Ork that I recall from years ago when the ork released this kind of American music on an LP! Jubilee always reminded me of pioneers arriving on the west coast via covered wagons celebrating the end of their hard journey. Rest of the music on the LP also magnificent.
I just recently discovered this brilliant, American composer through the orchestra, in which I play principal horn and Chadwick has easily become one of my favorite composers. His mastery of orchestration is admirable, and his horn writing is a horn player's dream. Sorry it took 62 years to discover his genius!
I uploaded about 9 works of his so far. Symphony No. 2 and 3, Piano Quintet, Overtures, Symphonic Poems etc. But I am still looking for some recordings of his excellent songs, pretty much forgotten nowadays.
Love this work! The secondary theme of the first movement, which initially appears as an oboe solo, took my breath away when I first heard it. It’s such a timeless melody.
Wunderschöne und spannende Interpretation dieser spätromantischen und einzigartig konstreirten Sinfonischen Skizzen im lebhaften Tempo mit farbenreichen Tönen aller Instrumente. Der zweite Satz klingt besonders schön und auch sehnsüchtig. Der intelligente und geniale Dirigent leitet das hoch funktionelle Orchester in verschiedenen Tempi und mit möglichst effektiver Dynamik. Wunderbar und atemberaubend zugleich!
Chadwick mi è sempre piaciuto.Anche in questa composizione dimostra qualità di raffinata tecnica di orchestrazione e ispirazione melodica.Un ottimo post.Grazie.
I found it, thanks to RU-vid! Audio quality best here more than others! Love this work. Reminds me of soundtrack music to a movie about pioneers heading west. CHEERS!
Chadwick, to me, takes up where Dvorak left off. Magnificent American music. P.S. Could be my imagination, but wasn't that snippet of heartbreakingly beautiful melody used in a deNiro, or some such, movie a few decades back? 🐸
George Whitefield Chadwick:Szimfonikus töredékek 1. Jubilee (Ünnep): Allegro molto vivace 00:12 Semmi klassz szürke tónus számomra! Adj nekem a legmelegebb vörös és zöld színt, egy kornét és egy tamburint, festeni a jubileumomat! Mert amikor sápadt furulyák és oboák játszanak, a szomorúságért zsákmány leszek; Add nekem az ibolyát és a májust, de nekem semmi szürke ég! 2. Noël (Karácsony): Andante con tenerezza 08:49 A lágy, nyugodt holdfényen keresztül hang hallatszik; Egy anya elaltatja a kisbabáját, és mindenfelé A szelíd hó csillogóan fekszik; Ilyen éjszakán a Szűz Anya enyhe Álomtalan szendergésben burkolta a Szent Gyermeket, Amíg az angyal-házigazdák hallgattak. 3. Hobgoblin (Manó):Scherzo capriccioso: Allegro vivace 17:41 Az a ravasz és ordító koboldot Robin Goodfellow-nak hívják. 4. A Vagrom Ballad (Egy Vagrom ballada): Moderato. Alla burla 23:39 Mese a csavargókról és a vasúti kapcsolatokról, Vagy régi agyagcsövek és rum, Törött fejekkel és feketedő szemekkel És a következő "harminc nap"! Eastman-Rochester Zenekar Vezényel:Howard Hanson
Because it was a tough market back then, and even if you made it big back then that doesn't mean that you will still be remembered today. It is up to us to keep these composers from disappearing into history,
Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein totally dominated America's classical music scene when classical music and mass media intersected in the 50s and 60s. After that, classical music lost popularity drastically and we were sort of left with their mentality regarding previous American composers. They didn't care for the Second New England School because they weren't modern enough. They only liked Charles Ives. They also shunned the great music of Alan Hovhaness, their contemporary, for being too minimalistic.
