George Crumb: A Haunted Landscape / William Schuman: Three Colloquies for Horn & Orchestra - New York Philharmonic / Arthur Weisberg / Zubin Mehta

1. A Haunted Landscape, for orchestra
Composed by George Crumb
Performed by New York Philharmonic Conducted by Arthur Weisberg

2. Colloquies (3) for horn & orchestra
Composed by William Schuman
Performed by New York Philharmonic with Philip Myers
Conducted by Zubin Mehta

George Crumb: A Haunted Landscape / William Schuman: Three Colloquies for Horn & Orchestra - New York Philharmonic / Arthur Weisberg / Zubin Mehta,George Crumb,William Schuman,Arthur Weisberg,Zubin Mehta,Philip Myers,New York Philharmonic,New World Records,20th/21st Century Orchestral Work with Descriptive Title,Classical,Concerto,French Horn Concerto,Orchestral,Orchestral & Symphonic

Average customer rating: If you like this sort of thing, you'll find that this is the sort of thing you like.

George Crumb: A Haunted Landscape / William Schuman: Three Colloquies for Horn & Orchestra - New York Philharmonic / Arthur Weisberg / Zubin Mehta Manufacturer: New World Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by George Crumb | Crumb, George | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schuman | Schuman, William | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music French Horn | Brass | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000030DA Release Date: 1992-12-08

Tracks:

1. A Haunted Landscape
2. Three Colloquies For Horn And Orchestra: Rumination
3. Three Colloquies For Horn And Orchestra: Renewal
4. Three Colloquies For Horn And Orchestra: Remembrance

Customer Reviews:

If you like this sort of thing, you'll find that this is the sort of thing you like........2006-07-27

In all, a substantive and worthwhile disc here. Crumb's A Haunted Landscape sounds very much like a good sci-fi horror movie score, laden with anxiety and a sense of the numinous and bizarre. Schuman's Three Colloquies for Horn and Orchestra are more difficult. Its texture owes much to Webernian pointillism, but harmonic and melodic material seem to derive more from extended tertian harmonies than from serial rows or pitch-class sets, so that the piece speaks in a more consonant, jazz orchestra sort of language as far as pitch is concerned. The New York Philharmonic plays with predictable skill and, surprisingly, a good deal of enthusiasm (so many performances of new compositions are just phoned-in), and Myers, the horn soloist, produces a rugged, powerful sound that works very well in the Colloquies. This isn't meant to be pretty music and if your tastes run more to Brahms and Mahler in orchestral music it won't be your favorite album, but these are both excellent post-modernist scores.

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