American Highways
vr 6 jan 2017 18:00 uur
AMERICAN HIGHWAYS #70: Henry Cowell – The Icelandic Symphony. Henry Cowell's symphonic series, episode 8: American iconoclast Cowell composed an astonishing variety of symphonic works – large and small, intimate and bombastic, funny and poignant. In this episode of American Highways, pianist Guy Livingston brings us orchestral music by this little-known american master: Ostinato Pianissimo for percussion ensemble, one of the classics of the genre; the Ballad, the entertainingly naïve Fanfare for the Latin American Allies; the complex Polyphonica; and the substantial Icelandic Symphony. Theme Music : • Henry Cowell • Symphony #11 "Seven Rituals of Music" -Vivace • Robert Whitney: Louisville Orchestra • First Edition FECD-0003 • Henry Cowell – Ostinato Pianissimo (1934) • The New Jersey Percussion Ensemble • Elektra Nonesuch – 9 79150-2 • • Henry Cowell – Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10 (1955) For Oboe & Strings • Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner • Argo (2) – 417 818-2 • • Henry Cowell – Fanfare for the Latin American Allies • London Symphony Brass & Eric Crees • Alto 2013 • Henry Cowell – Ballad • The Louisville Orchestra & Jorge Mester • Soundmark Records 48126 • Henry Cowell – Polyphonica • Continuum Ensemble • Naxos Am Classics 8.559192 • Henry Cowell – Symphony 16: Icelandic I-Moderato con moto II-Allegro III-Adagio Cantabile IV-Vivace V-Maestoso • Icelandic Symphony, Polish Orchestra, William Strickland Conductor • Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI) – CD 740 • Henry Cowell – 4 Irish Tales "Tales of Our Countryside": No. 3, The Harp of Life • Henry Cowell, piano; All-American Youth Orchestra cond by Leopold Stokowski • Music and Arts 1287
