American Classics Series-Contemporary Music CDs

Our highly-acclaimed American Classics series boasts a unique catalogue of both well-known and rarely recorded masterpieces. Adams, Barber, Bernstein, Bolcom, Copland, Corigliano, Glass are just a few of the many composers showcased in this ongoing series.

Below is our special selection of albums featuring such outstanding artists as Chloe Hanslip, Marin Alsop, JoAnn Falletta, Leonard Slatkin, Ralph van Raat, Group for Contemporary Music. Of note are this month’s new releases: 8.669012-13 (Hanson: Merry Mount); 8.559180 (Corigliano: String Quartet); 8.559277 (Joplin: Rags); 8.559328 (Tower: Made in America)

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"If nothing else, this is a recording for people who think they've lost the capacity to be amazed… The performance is not only vivid and meticulous but also blazes with inner conviction, as if all of the more than four hundred performers were fully aware that they were taking part in an historic event. And that – unmistakably – is what this recording is: a milestone in American musical history."

– KUSC website on 8.559216-18 BOLCOM: Songs of Innocence and of Experience

	8.669012-13 HANSON: Merry Mount
	8.559277 SCOTT JOPLIN: Piano Rags, Vol. 2
	8.559302 ADAMS, J: Violin Concerto / CORIGLIANO: Chaconne from The Red Violin
	8.559299 AMERICAN CHORAL MUSIC
	8.559088 BARBER: Cello Concerto / Medea Suite / Adagio for Strings
	8.559216-18 BOLCOM: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
	8.559301 BRUBECK: Nocturnes
	8.559151 CARTER: Piano Concerto / Symphony No. 1 / Holiday Overture
	8.559289 COATES: Symphonies Nos. 1, 7 and 14
	8.559240 COPLAND: Prairie Journal / The Red Pony Suite / Letter from Home
	8.559190 FELDMAN: String Quartet
	8.559056 GLASS, P.: Violin Concerto / Company / Prelude from Akhnaten
	8.559227 HARRIS, R: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4
	8.559322 HUANG, Ruo: Chamber Concertos Nos. 1-4
	8.559010 MACDOWELL: Woodland Sketches / Fireside Tales / New England Idyls
	8.559071 PISTON: Chamber Music
	8.559149 ROREM: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 3
	8.559197 SEEGER: Vocal, Chamber and Instrumental Works
	8.559058 SOUSA: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 1
	8.559262 WOLPE: String Quartet / Second Piece for Violin Alone / Trio in 2 Parts / Oboe Quartet
	8.559268 ZWILICH: Violin Concerto / Rituals

	8.559180 CORIGLIANO: Music for String Quartet
	8.559328 JOAN TOWER: Made in America
	8.559285 ADAMS, John: Complete Piano Music
	8.559259 BABBITT: Soli e Duettini
	8.559177 BERNSTEIN: Chichester Psalms / On the Waterfront
	8.559250 BROUWER, M: Aurolucent Circles / Mandala / Remembrances
	8.559070 CAGE: Music for Prepared Piano
	8.559266 CASCARINO: Orchestral Works
	8.559329 COOMAN: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 / Violin Sonata
	8.559290 CRUMB: Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death / Quest
	8.559224 FUCHS, K.: American Place (An) / Eventide / Out of the Dark
	8.559188 HARBISON: Chamber Music
	8.559158 HOVHANESS: Symphony No. 22 / Cello Concerto
	8.559076 IVES: Symphony No. 2 / Robert Browning Overture
	8.559225 MCKAY: Violin Concerto / Sinfonietta No. 4 / Song Over the Great Plains
	8.559182 ROCHBERG: Symphony No. 2 / Imago Mundi
	8.559255 SCHUMAN: Symphonies Nos. 7 and 10
	8.559261 SESSIONS: String Quintet / String Quartet No. 1 / Canons (to the memory of Igor Stravinsky)
	8.559198 THOMSON, V.: Vocal and Chamber Works
	8.559264 WUORINEN: 6 Trios

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