Composer: Antonín Dvořák, Aaron Copland
Orchestra: National Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: National Symphony Orchestra
Release: 2020
Size: 1.08 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Aaron Copland:
Billy the Kid
01. I. Introduction. The Open Prairie
02. II. Street in a Frontier Town
03. III. Mexican Dance and Finale
04. IV. Prairie Night (Card Game at Night)
05. V. Gun Battle
06. VI. Celebration (After Billy’s Capture)
07. VII. Billy’s Death
08. VIII. The Open Prairie Again
Antonín Dvořák:
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 ‘From the New World’
09. I. Adagio – Allegro molto
10. II. Largo
11. III. Scherzo. Molto vivace
12. IV. Allegro con fuoco
The venue sounds well enough in what is clearly a well-engineered disc and the inimitable chord spacings that open Copland’s Billy the Kid Suite certainly convey that sense of ‘tall, wide and handsome’…But the open, rather too wellhomogenised (for my taste) sound picture contributes to a presentation of this music that, while slickly projected by the NSO and its music director Gianandrea Noseda, is somehow too urbane to be entirely in keeping with its frontier spirit, its homespun local colour.