Last week’s show marked round-numbered birth years of composers. On this second round of musical anniversaries, we’ll celebrate compositions introduced 100 years ago: 1924 was quite a year in classical music, when its past and future collided with wildly varied and colorful results.
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Gershwin: “Rhapsody in Blue”
(Ferde Grofé jazz-band orchestration)
Kirill Gerstein, piano
Scott Andrews, clarinet
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra/David Robertson
(Myrios Classics)
Janáček: “Mládí” (“Youth”)
Orsino Ensemble
Peter Sparks, bass clarinet
(Chandos)
Bloch: Concerto grosso No. 1
Francis Grier, piano
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner
(Warner Classics)
Satie: “Relâche: Cinéma”
Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy/Jérôme Kaltenbach
(Naxos)
Copland: Symphony No. 1 (“Organ Symphony”)
Simon Preston, organ
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin
(RCA)
Respighi: “The Pines of Rome”
Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Fritz Reiner
(RCA)
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