George Antheil: Symphony No. 3 & other orchestral works

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George Antheil is doing well on disc and he is lucky here to have a conductor of the calibre of Hugh Wolff taking up his cause and reviving a Frankfurt connection going back to the premiere of... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 29th Nov 2004
Catalogue No: 777040-2
Label: CPO
Length: 61 minutes

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Antheil: Symphony No. 3 'American'

Work length25:02

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Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
Hugh Wolff

I. Allegro

Track length8:51

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II. Andante

Track length7:09

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III. The Golden Spike. Andante

Track length4:03

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IV. Back to Baltimore. Presto

Track length4:59

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Antheil: Tom Sawyer

Work length5:25

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Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
Hugh Wolff

Antheil: Hot-Time Dance

Work length4:24

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Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
Hugh Wolff

Antheil: McKonkey's Ferry

Work length9:03

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Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
Hugh Wolff

Antheil: Capital of the World: Suite

Work length17:08

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Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt
Hugh Wolff

I. The Tailor Shop

Track length5:21

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II. Meditation

Track length7:32

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III. Knife Dance

Track length4:15

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George Antheil is doing well on disc and he is lucky here to have a conductor of the calibre of Hugh Wolff taking up his cause and reviving a Frankfurt connection going back to the premiere of Transatlantic, the opera acclaimed there in 1930 but not seen in his native US for another 50 years.
Antheil was hesitant about his Third Symphony, written during the 1930s when he was returning from a decade spent mostly in Europe and exploring his own country. He broke off to write film scores and fulfil other commitments so it was picked up and put down, then revised in 1945. In its first recording, the Third is more successful than commentators have suggested, but as attractive tableaux rather than a symphonic entity. Antheil wanted to write American music and the breezy syncopations of the third movement show common ground with Copland, who in 1926 regarded Antheil as having 'the greatest gift of any young American now writing'.
If the Third Symphony is transitional, Antheil was very much in his stride during the 1940s.
The short overture Tom Sawyer is an endearing evocation of Mark Twain's hero, and Hot-TimeDance, premiered at the Boston Pops in 1949, is characteristically swaggering and irrepressible – Antheil's orchestration can stand up with the most blatant Shostakovich; either would be a smash-hit encore. Capital of the World, a ballet based on Hemingway's short story, was premiered on television then staged at the Met in 1953. This is the suite, a suave and polished example of Antheil's late style. Wolff once again makes the most of everything.

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