Utah Symphony Orchestra
The Utah Symphony is one of the major orchestral ensembles of the American West, having established a high standard of performance and a distinctive sound under longtime conductor Maurice Abravanel. The group has had a distinguished recording career, issuing almost 120 albums under Abravanel on the Vanguard and Vox labels.
After the failure of several other attempts to establish a symphony orchestra in Salt Lake City, the Utah State Sinfonietta, founded as a U.S. Works Progress Administration project in 1935, played more than a thousand concerts in the late 1930s, inspiring local business leaders to form a Utah State Symphony Orchestra in 1940 when federal funding was discontinued. The group's first music director was Hans Heniot. In 1946, its name was changed to the Utah Symphony, and the following year, conductor Maurice Abravanel, a student of Bruno Walter, was hired under a one-year contract. He turned down a lucrative offer from Radio City Music Hall in New York and persisted with the orchestra through various funding crises, at times working without pay because he hoped to build a distinctive ensemble of his own. His mission was successful: Utah Symphony albums became linchpins of American record collections in the LP era, and Abravanel-led classics such as the orchestra's recording of the Berlioz's Requiem, Op. 5, have been reissued in digital media. The orchestra recorded complete cycles of the symphonies of Mahler (it was the first orchestra anywhere to do so) and Tchaikovsky. During Abravanel's tenure the orchestra performed in Salt Lake City's Mormon Tabernacle. A new Symphony Hall, renamed Abravanel Hall in 1993, was opened in 1980 and has been noted for its fine acoustics. Abravanel retired in 1979 and was succeeded by Varujan Kojian (1980-1983), Joseph Silverstein (1983-1998), Keith Lockhart (1998-2009), and Thierry Fischer. The orchestra often performed with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Utah Opera, merging organizationally with the latter group in 2002. Its pace of recordings slowed somewhat, but critically acclaimed Utah Symphony releases have continued to appear. Fischer has championed contemporary music and issued Dawn to Dusk, featuring works by Augusta Read Thomas (whose EOS: Goddess of the Dawn was commissioned by the orchestra), Nico Muhly, and Andrew Norman, in 2016. The orchestra's recording of Saint-Saëns' Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 ("Organ") appeared in 2019.
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Discografia
21 album • Ordinato per Bestseller
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major "Symphony of a Thousand" (Live)
Classica - Pubblicato da Reference Recordings il 10 nov 2017
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Edgard Varèse: Amériques, Offrandes, Intégrales, Arcana, Ecuatorial, Nocturnal
Sinfonie - Pubblicato da Praga Digitals il 1 gen 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78 & Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60
Classica - Pubblicato da Reference Recordings il 25 ott 2019
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan" (Live)
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Thierry Fischer
Classica - Pubblicato da Reference Recordings il 11 set 2015
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 & Romeo & Juliet (2023 Remastered Version)
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravanel
Classica - Pubblicato da Vox il 1 gen 2001
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Tchaikovsky: Overtures & Complete Symphonies
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravanel
Classica - Pubblicato da Vox Box il 1 gen 2001
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Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony, Op. 58, TH 28 & Marche slave, Op. 31, TH 45 (Remastered 2023)
Maurice Abravanel, Utah Symphony
Classica - Pubblicato da Vox il 1 gen 1974
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Dawn to Dust
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Colin Currie, Thierry Fischer
Classica - Pubblicato da Reference Recordings il 8 apr 2016
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Americana: 20th Century Works for Orchestra
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Maurice Abravanel, Lukas Foss
Classica - Pubblicato da Allegretto il 1 gen 1993
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Grieg, E.: Symphonic Dances / From Holberg's Time / 2 Elegiac Melodies / Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2 / Norwegian Dances
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravanel
Classica - Pubblicato da Vox Box il 1 gen 1991
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Dante Symphony / Tragic Overture
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Varujan Kojian
Classica - Pubblicato da Citadel - Mafy il 2 giu 1994
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The Masterpieces - Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Op. 49
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravanel
Classica - Pubblicato da Menuetto Classics il 11 mag 2018
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Authur Honegger: Judith & Darius Milhaud: La Creation Du Monde
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravanel
Classica - Pubblicato da Vanguard Classics il 1 gen 1995
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Tchaikovsky: The Complete Symphonies
Classica - Pubblicato da X5 Music Group il 28 apr 2009
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 in D Major, Op. 29, TH 26 "Polish" & Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32, TH 46 (Remastered 2023)
Maurice Abravanel, Utah Symphony
Classica - Pubblicato da Vox il 1 gen 1974
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Gates: Promised Valley
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Utah Chorale
Classica - Pubblicato da Citadel - Mafy il 7 ott 2022
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Tchaikovsky: Lac des cygnes, extraits (Mono Version)
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravanel
Generi vari - Pubblicato da BNF Collection il 1 gen 1962
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Richard Yardumian: Symphony No. 2 "Psalms" & Armenian Suite
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Lili Chookasian, Varujan Kojian
Classica - Pubblicato da Phoenix USA il 1 gen 1990
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Duffy: Heritage Fanfare and Chorale / Heritage Suite / Symphony No. 1 / Heritage Symphonic Dances
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Utah Symphony Orchestra, Richard Williams, Joseph Silverstein
Classica - Pubblicato da Albany il 1 ott 1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
American 20th Century Composers, Vol. 3
Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravanel
Classica - Sarà pubblicato il 17 mag 2024 su Vox
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo