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Harold Shapero: Symphony for Classical Orchestra; Nine-Minute Overture by André Previn. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more ...
Shapero's output was prolific in the 1940s and included three piano sonatas, the Sonata for Violin and Piano, and a variety of songs and works for chamber ensembles. His major work was the Symphony for Classical Orchestra, a 45-minute work in four movements.
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Dec 16, 2006 · A major American composition--perhaps our greatest neo-classical symphony. Completely accessible, beautifully played, immensely important, almost entirely unknown. If you like Stravinsky's symphonies, Shapero's Symphony for Classical Orchestra will delight you.
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The American composer Harold Shapero’s Symphony for Classical Orchestra had languished in obscurity for some 30 years when André Previn conducted it with the Los Angeles Philharmonic...
Nov 18, 2016 · Died May 17, 2013, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Composed in 1947 in Boston on commission from the Koussevitzky Foundation. Premiered on January 30, 1948 in Boston by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Performance Time: Approximately 45 minutes.
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American works, André Previn and the Los Angeles Philharmonic introduced Shapero’s 1947 Symphony for Classical Orchestra to its audiences, bringing to life an expansive score of immense strength, vitality and deeply felt expressiveness.
