Henry Cowell: Persian Set/Lou Harrison: Suite, by Leopold Stokowski

Henry Cowell: Persian Set/Lou Harrison: Suite

by Leopold Stokowski

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1.	Henry Cowell - Persian Set: I. Moderato 04:32	info	buy track
2.	Henry Cowell - Persian Set: II. Allegretto 04:27	info	buy track
3.	Henry Cowell - Persian Set III. Lento 05:22	info	buy track
4.	Henry Cowell - Persian Set IV. Rondo 02:22	info	buy track
5.	Lou Harrison - Suite: I. Overture: Allegro poco maestoso; Allegro 03:30	info	buy track
6.	Lou Harrison - Suite: II. Elegy: Adagio 02:26	info	buy track
7.	Lou Harrison - Suite: III. First Gamelan: Allegro 03:24	info	buy track
8.	Lou Harrison - Suite: IV. Aria: Lento espressivo 02:50	info	buy track
9.	Lou Harrison - Suite: V. Second Gamelan: Allegro moderato 02:03	info	buy track
10.	Lou Harrison - Suite: VI. Chorale: Andante moderato 02:35	info	buy track

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Henry Cowell wrote of his score from Tokyo (May, 1957):

“This is a simple record of musical contagion, written at the end of a three-months’ stay in Iran, during which I listened for several hours nearly every day to the traditional classic music and the folk music of the country — at concerts, at private parties, at the National Conservatory for Traditional Iranian Music (where the instructors gave wonderful demonstrations of virtuosity for my benefit), and at Radio Tehran. Tape recordings at the Department of Fine Arts were especially helpful in displaying the rich variety of music in regions too difficult to visit in mid- winter.

“Of course I made no attempt to shed my years of Western symphonic experience; nor have I used actual Iranian melodies or rhythms, nor have I imitated them exactly. Instead I have tried to develop some of the kinds of musical behavior that the two cultures have in common.

Lou Harrison’s Suite was commissioned by the Ajemian sisters in 1951. P. Glanville-Hicks has written, among notes describing this suite, that “the Harrison Suite is one of the most delicate and lovely American works of recent years. The sheer grace and joyousness of its style, reminiscent of India—both sacred and secular modes—cannot fail to charm all who hear it.”

“Its opening Overture is an Allegro in a festive mood of rejoicing; the solo violin draws long, clean lines across a scintillating backdrop of piano, tack-piano, celesta, tam-tam and harp, playing in Gamelan style. Formally, this Overture—as indeed all six sections of the suite—is quantitative music rather than climactic, though high tension points are reached by exciting handling of the melodic curve or by elaboration, and sometimes sudden simplification of the instrumentation. Such devices take the place of the constructed climax of Western musical thought.”

This title, originally issued on the CRI label, is now available as a burn-on-demand CD (CD-R) or download. CD-Rs come in a protective sleeve; no print booklet or jewel case included.

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released August 19, 1957

Leopold Stokowski, Members of Leopold Stokowski Orchestra

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