Copland, Creston, Kay, Piston : Orchestral works (2023)

Now that we are well into the third decade of the 21st century, is it possible to look back at music composed in America during the 20th with a fresh perspective? Can we approach it without all the sometimes discordant “isms” (serialism, neo-Classicism, neo-Romanticism, sonorism, minimalism, etc.) that divided audiences and left heaps of wonderful music unnoticed or underappreciated? It appears so, as many composers and works that failed to find traction with critics, academia, record companies and radio networks during those turbulent days are finding new audiences in the concert hall and on recordings. (...) (CD-boekje)