Thursday, October 30, 2014

Aaron Copland Violin Sonata


Issac Stern Violin
Aaron Copland Piano

I like Copland's chamber music a lot more than I do the orchestral pieces that always get played, some of them to death.  The Violin and Piano Sonatas, the terribly neglected Nonet (which is also on the album this performance was originally released on) the Sextet, are all works that could do with more performance.

For personal reasons I always associate this piece with this time of the year.

Update:  And I still think that of all the composers who were heavily influenced by Copland,  André Previn is the most convincing.

André Previn  Sallie Chisum Remembers Billy The Kid



Elizabeth Reiter, soprano
André Previn, piano

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