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The Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, conducted by founder Daniel Spalding, give George Antheil's once notorious Ballet mécanique an exciting and colorful performance for Naxos here. While this work has lost much of its ability to shock, it is nevertheless an invigorating composition, sounding fresh and impertinent even today. With considerable energy and accuracy, the players present the work's audacious effects with appropriate brusqueness and metallic incisiveness, sparing nothing at the music's explosive end. Using the revised version from 1953, the ensemble here consists of four pianos, two xylophones, glockenspiel, various standard percussion, two electric bells, and the drones of two airplane propellers of different sizes. Antheil's clarified orchestration heightens the clever play of interlocking patterns and the even dispersal of the percussion's sharp timbres. In the course of the piece's rambunctious activity, the overwhelming influence of Stravinsky becomes apparent. The pounding ostinati, dynamic rhythms, cellular melodic material, parallel chord progressions -- even what seem to be a few direct quotations from the Rite of Spring and Petrushka -- all admit the impact the older composer had on Antheil's music. The all-digital sound of this recording is bright and crisp, and the often overlapping sonorities of the cymbals, triangle, and bells are distinctly separated.
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Ballet Mecanique (George Antheil)
Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniel Spalding, Conductor - George Antheil, Composer
(C) 2001 Naxos (P) 2001 Naxos
Serenade No. 1 (George Antheil)
Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniel Spalding, Conductor - George Antheil, Composer
(C) 2001 Naxos (P) 2001 Naxos
Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniel Spalding, Conductor - George Antheil, Composer
(C) 2001 Naxos (P) 2001 Naxos
Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniel Spalding, Conductor - George Antheil, Composer
(C) 2001 Naxos (P) 2001 Naxos
Symphony for 5 Instruments (George Antheil)
Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniel Spalding, Conductor - George Antheil, Composer
(C) 2001 Naxos (P) 2001 Naxos
Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniel Spalding, Conductor - George Antheil, Composer
(C) 2001 Naxos (P) 2001 Naxos
Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniel Spalding, Conductor - George Antheil, Composer
(C) 2001 Naxos (P) 2001 Naxos
Concerto for Chamber Orchestra (George Antheil)
Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniel Spalding, Conductor - George Antheil, Composer
(C) 2001 Naxos (P) 2001 Naxos
Albumbeschreibung
The Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, conducted by founder Daniel Spalding, give George Antheil's once notorious Ballet mécanique an exciting and colorful performance for Naxos here. While this work has lost much of its ability to shock, it is nevertheless an invigorating composition, sounding fresh and impertinent even today. With considerable energy and accuracy, the players present the work's audacious effects with appropriate brusqueness and metallic incisiveness, sparing nothing at the music's explosive end. Using the revised version from 1953, the ensemble here consists of four pianos, two xylophones, glockenspiel, various standard percussion, two electric bells, and the drones of two airplane propellers of different sizes. Antheil's clarified orchestration heightens the clever play of interlocking patterns and the even dispersal of the percussion's sharp timbres. In the course of the piece's rambunctious activity, the overwhelming influence of Stravinsky becomes apparent. The pounding ostinati, dynamic rhythms, cellular melodic material, parallel chord progressions -- even what seem to be a few direct quotations from the Rite of Spring and Petrushka -- all admit the impact the older composer had on Antheil's music. The all-digital sound of this recording is bright and crisp, and the often overlapping sonorities of the cymbals, triangle, and bells are distinctly separated.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 8 track(s)
- Total length: 00:59:19
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra Daniel Spalding
- Composer: George Antheil
- Label: Naxos
- Genre: Klassiek Kamermuziek
- Collection: Naxos American Classics
(C) 2001 Naxos (P) 2001 Naxos
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