Jazz master Aaron Diehl is the soloist in Still’s lovely gift to his wife and Williams’s astrological portraits of her friends. Tito Muñoz conducts this newly recorded all-American concert that also presents Copland’s moody cityscape and evocation of rustic joy, and Ives’s search for the unknowable.
COPLAND (1900–90)
Quiet City (1939 / 1940)
M.L. WILLIAMS (1910–81)
Selections from Zodiac Suite (1944–45)
1. Leo
2. Virgo
3. Libra
4. Scorpio
STILL (1895–1978)
Out of the Silence, from Seven Traceries (1939)
IVES (1874–1954)
The Unanswered Question (1906–ca. 1941)
COPLAND (1900–90)
Appalachian Spring Suite (for 13 instruments) (1943–45)
Major support provided by Laura Chang and Arnold Chavkin.
In our first concert recorded exclusively for NYPhil+ Emanuel Ax masters the technical challenges of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 with the most delicate touch. David Robertson also conducts Elgar, Richard Strauss, and Jessie Montgomery’s multicultural rhapsody on the theme of The Star-Spangl...
