Diamond: Symphony No.8/Suite From The Ballet TOM/This Sacred Ground

1. Zappaloapan
Composed by Santiago Ojeda
Performed by Seattle Symphony Orchestra with Erich Parce
Conducted by Gerard Schwarz

2. This Sacred Ground, for choir, soloists & orchestra
Composed by David Diamond
Performed by Seattle Symphony Orchestra with Erich Parce
Conducted by Gerard Schwarz

3. Symphony No. 8
Composed by David Diamond
Performed by Seattle Symphony Orchestra with Erich Parce
Conducted by Gerard Schwarz

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Diamond: Symphony No.8/Suite From The Ballet TOM/This Sacred Ground Manufacturer: Delos Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Diamond: Music For Romeo And Juliet/Psalm/Kaddish For Violoncello And Orchestra/Symphony No.3 ASIN: B0000006YU Release Date: 1994-08-02

Tracks:

1. First Orchestral Suite From The Ballet Tom: I. Fanfare
2. First Orchestral Suite From The Ballet Tom: II. Prelude To Episode I
3. First Orchestral Suite From The Ballet Tom: III. Introduction And Dance Of The Benevolent Master & Mistress
4. First Orchestral Suite From The Ballet Tom: IV. Eliza's Supplication
5. First Orchestral Suite From The Ballet Tom: V. The Mortgage
6. First Orchestral Suite From The Ballet Tom: VI. Dance Of The Slavetraders And Human Bloodhounds
7. First Orchestral Suite From The Ballet Tom: VII. Dance Of Thankfulness For Freedom
8. First Orchestral Suite From The Ballet Tom: VIII. Dance Of New England And New Orleans
9. First Orchestral Suite From The Ballet Tom: IX. Entrance Of Eva
10. First Orchestral Suite From The Ballet Tom: X. Tom's Dance Of Revelation Through The Eternal Word
11. First Orchestral Suite From The Ballet Tom: XI. Music Accompanying Eva's Departure And Ascent Into Heaven Accompanied By Angels
12. First Orchestral Suite From The Ballet Tom: XII. Choral Spiritual - Conclusion
13. This Sacred Ground
14. Symphony No. 8: I. Moderato - Adagio - Allegro vivo
15. Symphony No. 8: II. Theme (Adagio), Variations And Double Fugue

Average customer rating: The Fine Diamond Orchestral Series Continues

David Diamond: Symphony No. 8; Suite from the Ballet TOM; This Sacred Ground Manufacturer: Naxos American ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: David Diamond: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 David Diamond: Symphony No. 1; Violin Concerto No. 2 David Diamond: Symphony No. 3; Psalm, Kaddish Rorem: Three Symphonies Roy Harris: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 9 ASIN: B0001N9ZFC Release Date: 2004-05-18

Tracks:

1. Fanfare
2. Prelude To Episode I
3. Introduction And Dance Of The Benevolent Master & Mistress
4. Eliza's Supplication
5. The Mortgage
6. Dance Of The Slavetraders And Human Bloodhounds
7. Dance Of Thankfulness For Freedom
8. Dance Of New England And New Orleans
9. Entrance Of Eva
10. Tom's Dance Of Revelation Through The Eternal Word
11. Music Accompanying Eva's Departure And Ascent Into Heaven Accompanied By Angels
12. Choral Spiritual - Conclusion
13. This Sacred Ground - Seattle Symphony Chorale
14. Moderato - Adagio - Allegro Vivo
15. Theme (Adagio), Variations And Double Fugue

Customer Reviews:

The Fine Diamond Orchestral Series Continues.......2004-10-16

David Diamond (b. 1915, and still with us) has been one of American's finest composers since between the two world wars. In the late 1980s and early 1990s the Delos label issued a series of fine recordings of his orchestral music with the Seattle Symphony conducted by Gerard Schwarz. Naxos has been re-releasing them at budget price (although I notice that the Delos version of this release is still available here at Amazon at mid-price). For some reason each individual Naxos release has typically had slightly different contents from its Delos predecessor, but this one exactly reproduces its Delos source. And a nice one it is, too.

'TOM' was intended to be a ballet based on 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' set to a scenario by E. E. Cummings as requested by American ballet impresario Lincoln Kirstein. But obstacles arose and the ballet was never produced. Here we have a 23-minute, 12-movement suite fashioned from the full ballet score by the composer a couple of years later, in 1937. The music was written when Diamond was only twenty and still a student of Roger Sessions. One can hear some of Sessions's granitic style, but it is leavened by folk-rhythms and -melodies. One can almost hear Diamond developing his mature style with both its etched neoclassic and seductively romantic qualities as the music proceeds. An exemplar of the former is the Stravinskyan 'Dance of the Slavetraders and Human Bloodhounds,' and of the latter is the following 'Dance of Thankfulness for Freedom.'

In 1963 conductor Josef Krips asked Diamond to compose a choral setting of Lincoln's 'Gettysburg Address.' It was premièred late that year by Lukas Foss conducting Krips's Buffalo Symphony Orchestra. It is set for chorus, children's chorus, baritone solo and orchestra and this recording features not only the Seattle Symphony but also the Seattle Symphony Chorus, the Seattle Girls' Choir, the Northwest Boychoir, and baritone Erich Parce. The text is printed in the CD's accompanying booklet. Solemn, tonal/modal, straightforwardly patriotic, it sounds as if it might have been written twenty years earlier during World War II. Deeply heart-felt, it wears it earnestness on its sleeve and one wonders how it was greeted at its première in the turbulent 1960s. As is always the case with this sort of piece, how it is heard is at least partly determined by the tenor of the times in which it is performed. In these days of another war, it is, for me, difficult to avoid thinking of young men (and women) who have also found their 'final resting place,' and hoping it has been for some lasting purpose as it clearly was for those who fell in our Civil War.

Diamond's 30-minute, two-movement Eighth Symphony was written in 1960 to honor of his long-time friend, Aaron Copland, on his sixtieth birthday. Written in mostly tonal but highly chromatic style, it makes more than occasional use of Bergian post-tonality albeit in non-aggressive fashion. The first movement begins rather harshly with a tone-row pounded out by the full orchestra. A more lyrical second theme becomes increasingly important and through various manipulations of both motifs the movement winds its way to a vigorous Schumanesque (Bill, not Robert) brass/percussion peroration that then ends with a diffident upward questioning gesture. The second movement is an adagio Theme and Variations (seven of them) ending in a grand double fugue whose theme is derived from the first theme of the first movement. This is not one of Diamond's more lyrical symphonies. It was written at a time when American composers were facing the atonal imperative--indeed, his friend Copland had just written his twelve-tone 'Connotations' for orchestra--but the ever-present Romantic nature of Diamond's music keeps winning through. So, although this is perhaps the toughest of Diamond's symphonies and to some degree uncharacteristic of his overall style, one still hears the rhythmic, harmonic and structural qualities that are so identifiably Diamondesque.

Schwarz and his Seattle forces perform admirably throughout.

TT=68:54

Scott Morrison

Track Listings:

1. Diverting Mozart
2. Domenico Maria & Pietro Paolo Melli: Musiche a voce sola e intavolature di liuto e tiorba
3. Dvor k & Saint-Sa‰ns:Cello Concertos
4. Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'; Serenade for Strings
5. Eivind Groven: Piano Concerto; Symphony No. 2
6. Flute Follies
7. From Piazzolla to Ravi Shankar
8. Gesu Al Sepolcro
9. Grieg's Piano Concerto; Suites from Peer Gynt
10. Grieg: Slåtter; Norwegian Peasant Dances

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Seize the Day and Other Stories

Music for Wind Orchestra

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Poem for M [Import]

On a Clear Day: Irma Bossa Lounge [Import]

Three Sonatas for Double Bass

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