Composer: Aaron Copland
Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: RCA
Catalogue: G010001716826E
Release: 1994
Size: 264 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
The Red Pony – Film Music (Suite)
01. Morning on the Ranch
02. The Gift
03. Dream March
04. Circus Music
05. Walk to the Bunkhouse
06. Grandfather’s Story
07. Happy Ending
08. Our Town
09. The Heiress Suite
Music for the Movies
10. New England Countryside (From “The City”)
11. Barley Wagons (From “Of Mice and Men”)
12. Sunday Traffic (From “The City”)
13. Grovers Corners (From “Our Town”)
14. Threshing Machines (From “Of Mice and Men”)
15. Prairie Journal (Music for Radio)
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. In this recording by Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Copland’s film music gets the full Technicolor treatment. Their music from The Red Pony has its humor, grandeur, and an aching lyricism. Their suite from Our Town has its stoicism and its romanticism. The suite from The Heiress has its pathos and irony. Their Music for Movies has its bathos and bombast. And their closing Prairie Journal has its epic scope and occasionally trivial tunes. Slatkin leads with energy and conviction. The St. Louis plays with subtleness and strength. RCA’s early-’90s digital sound is warm and rich and full.