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Boyer: Symphony No. 1 – London Philharmonic Orchestra & Peter BoyerFebruary 10th, 2014  Price: $7.99 Genre: Classical Released: Feb 04, 2014 |
View More By London Philharmonic Orchestra Customer ReviewsA great addition to NAXOS and to the American orchestral canon (5 stars)Peter Boyer’s music, while unafraid to bear its tonal roots in a modern harmonic paradigm, exudes both a rhythmic vigor and an optimistic vitality that identify a distinctly American sound. The focus of this album is, of course, Symphony No. 1. The introduction is that of a fugato, beginning inconspicuously in second violins: one might find this to be an interesting choice for a symphony born into the 21st century concert hall, bu Spend an hour with Peter Boyer (5 stars) Peter Boyer's music has been called “unapologetically populist,” with a “cinematic musical language [that] is a stew of Copland, Bernstein and John Williams.” All of this is apparent in the first six tracks of this CD, which are a compilation of shorter works spanning a fourteen year period from 1997 to 2011. Populist yes: his music eschews the harsh dissonance of atonalism, the deterministic tendencies and contrapuntal artifices BiographyFormed: October 7, 1932 in London, EnglandGenre: Classical Years Active: '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s The London Philharmonic Orchestra, one of the central institutions of the busy London concert scene, has long been recognized as one of the world's great ensembles, an assertion borne...
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