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Gerard Schwarz: Sym No. 1 Exile / Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints - COMPACT DISCS

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Sym No. 1 Exile / Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints

Artist:

Gerard Schwarz

Label:

Naxos American

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

636943971727

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2012-07-31

Number of Discs:

1

One of the most intriguing and individual of 20th century American composers, Alan Hovhaness rejected the cosmopolitan modernism of other leading composers of the 1930s and '40s. The connection Hovhaness felt with his Armenian heritage is evident in his Exile Symphony, which commemorates the flight forced upon those people by the Ottoman Turks after World War I. Delicacy, charm and vitality in the Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints evoke the composer's love for Japan, and the 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens inspired the Symphony No. 50, with it's remarkable evocation of the violent power and hauntingly mystic beauty of nature in "startlingly realistic engineering" (Gramophone).

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