The Seattle Symphony Orchestra under longtime conductor Gerard Schwarz often played American music, and it is encouraging to see the trend continue under the baton of Frenchman Ludovic Morlot. This album marks one of the first releases on the orchestra's own Seattle Symphony Media label, and it bodes well for the group's effort to offer something distinctive in the increasingly crowded field of in-house-label productions. The album is unorthodox in both content and execution. Although all are American composers of the 20th ...
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The Seattle Symphony Orchestra under longtime conductor Gerard Schwarz often played American music, and it is encouraging to see the trend continue under the baton of Frenchman Ludovic Morlot. This album marks one of the first releases on the orchestra's own Seattle Symphony Media label, and it bodes well for the group's effort to offer something distinctive in the increasingly crowded field of in-house-label productions. The album is unorthodox in both content and execution. Although all are American composers of the 20th century, not everyone would put Charles Ives, Elliott Carter, and George Gershwin together on a single program: Gershwin and Carter perhaps represent the two opposite poles of American music. However, there are good reasons to do so. As annotator Paul Schiavo points out, Carter knew Ives as a young man. And Morlot gives Gershwin's An American in Paris a brisk, angular reading that makes it into an unlikely but successful counterpart to Carter's rhythmic manipulations in Instances....
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