Disc Module
Disc Details
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| Title: |
Circus Overture |
| Ensemble: |
Seattle Symphony |
| Label Name: |
Naxos |
| Catalogue Number: |
8.559254 |
| Conductor: |
Gerard Schwarz |
Contents
Reviews
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...Schuman’s Symphony No. 4 ...has remained something of a “sleeper” over the years, under the shadow of its predecessor…it is a superb work, a natural “next step” after No. 3, with an especially beautiful slow movement…musical ideas are developed not so much through the analogue of a drama, as in more traditional symphonic music of the prior generation, but rather through variations in rhythmic energy and bodies of sonority. This is pure, abstract music, without any extrinsic reference... The Circus Overture is an exuberant piece originally composed in 1944 for an aborted Broadway revue. However, it is far more musically sophisticated than its provenance would suggest.
Walter Simmons, Fanfare
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