★★★★★
One of the two or three great Piston discs of the last decade of the twentieth century, Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's 1991 release of Piston's two most popular works coupled with what may be his greatest symphony is an ideal place to start listening to the knottiest and gnarliest of the Great American Symphonists...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
There comes a time when you just have to grow up and face the fact that Aaron Copland really was the great American composer of the twentieth century. Everyone knows his music and everyone loves his music. And the more Copland you listen to, the better he gets. Even his film scores have great stuff in them. The big tunes, the populist rhetoric, the brilliant orchestral colors, and the sense of awe and transcendence that are the hallmarks of his best music can be heard in his film music...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
There came a time when Aaron Copland got to be what you might call ornery. He wasn't always. Even at his prickliest in the '20s and early '30s, Copland was still a tune-smith at heart. And when he went populist in the late '30s and '40s, he let the good tunes roll. But when the well began to dry up for Copland in the '50s and the winds of fashion shifted to the brittle geometry of the ascendant serialists, Copland got tough, hard, and sometimes downright mean...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
When it comes to American music, it doesn't get much more American than this recording of four works by William Schuman with Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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