Naxos: 8559018

"Another American Romantic also admired abroad, also encouraged by Liszt, was George Templeton Strong (son of the famous New York diarist). He is slated for the full Naxos treatment. So far we have the hourlong Symphony No. 2 (1888), with the Moscow Symphony and the one- name Swiss maestro Adriano ("obsessed with Templeton Strong," says Victor Ledin). When Seidl gave this music with the Philharmonic in 1893, it was greatly admired by New York's estimable critics. Again, Naxos furnishes an opportunity to figure out what the fuss was about. Inspired by Durer's phantasmagoric engraving 'The Knight, Death and the Devil,' steaming with 'Tristan,' 'Parsifal' and Bruckner, Strong's Second proves formidably and precariously epochal, with a breadth of stride not to be found in MacDowell; it is actually revivable (and might suit the Philharmonic's next music director, Lorin Maazel)." - "Old Sounds From the New World," New York Times (Joseph Horowitz) July 15, 2001