Bizet / Messiaen / Stokowski / New York Po - Symphony 1 in C / L'arlesienne Suites 1 & 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Three movements of Georges Bizet's L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2 performed by RSO Ljubliana with Marko Munih conducting.

Bernard Herrmann was famous for his film scores, but he was also a leading figure in music for radio, to which he brought his inimitable palette of mood and sonority. Whitman, whose subject is Walt Whitman's collection of poems Leaves of Grass, was a 1944 radio drama, a genre now much neglected but revived in this newly restored version. Psycho A Narrative for String Orchestra is not a suite or excerpts from the film but a concert work, re-ordered and re-composed, while Souvenirs de voyage is one of the most polished and seductive of all American chamber works.

Westdeutsche Sinfonia - Symphony in C / Carmen Suites 1 & 2 [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/16/2012