Live From Music City: The Best Guerrero & Nashvil
Label: NAXOS Catalog: 950141 Format: CD NASHVILLE SYMPHONY GUERRERO WILSON LAUBE BINELLI YANG IWASAKI BAILEY REINKER LAMARCHINADrawn from seven years’ worth of commissioning and recording projects, Live From Music City captures the full breadth of the Nashville Symphony sound. Michael Daugherty taps into popular culture with his Superman-themed Metropolis Symphony. Stephen Paulus’ Grand Organ Concerto draws inspiration from hymns and folk tunes. The music of Richard Danielpour and the fiery, Latin-flavored symphonies of Roberto Sierra remind us that we live in a nation of immigrants, with thematic elements that draw on each composer’s respective roots in Persian and Latin culture. The music of Astor Piazzolla, meanwhile, expands the scope of American music to include the composer’s beloved Argentinean tango. Hear an orchestra that’s truly in tune with its place and time, whose players have been the same pros adding sparkle and polish to the country and pop records being cut in the studios along Music Row for decades, and maintained an abiding commitment to performing, commissioning and recording the music of American composers. Recorded live at the world-class Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Price: $19.98 |