LoginCreston: Symphonies 1-3
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Paul Creston (1906-1985) was a younger participant in the "flowering" of American classical music in the 1930s and 1940s. But rather than aligning himself with the nostalgic, lyrical Romanticism of Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, and Howard Hanson, Creston aligned himself with the rugged, more dynamic aspects of Modernism found in the music of Walter Piston, Peter Mennin, and Samuel Barber. These three symphonies contain none of American Romanticism's melancholia or homesickness, for example, but they do remain mostly tonal and buoyant, soaring with their own energy and inventiveness, particularly Symphony No. 3 (Three Myst
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Manufacturer: Naxos American
Release date: 11 April 2000
EAN: 0636943903421 UPC: 636943903421
Release date: 11 April 2000
EAN: 0636943903421 UPC: 636943903421
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