🎹 This love duet is one of my favorite pieces of music... sumptuously performed here at a super slow tempo, allowing us to savor its' richness and beauty. 🎹 sumptuously
7:19 i’ve noticed Hanson likes his use of Timpani eight notes as a bass line or driving figure. It’s interesting to see in his Symphony No. 1 Romantic first movement sounding similar to the Love duet too. Such great composition!
@@dougr.2398 Also neglects Douglas Moore's "The Ballad of Baby Doe" and "Giants in the Earth" from the early 1950's. Moore was just 3 years older than Hanson yet he wrote 12 operas almost none of which are still performed.
This is a magnificent recording great engineering. And a great interpretation by Kenneth Schermerhorn. An masterpiece of American music by Howard Hanson.
I love Howard Hanson’s work. I’m going to have The Love Duet played as my wedding processional. My first exposure to his music was in high school when the A Cappella choir performed his stunning Song of Democracy. In the movie Alien, director Ridley Scott used part of Hanson’s Romantic Symphony as Ripley has blasted the creature into space and also under the end credits. My local classical music station said Hanson was none too happy about it, nor was film composer Jerry Goldsmith who brilliantly scored the movie. Just a little trivia.
I heard some Italians playing Schubert - and I loved it! They let the SUN in on his cloudy music - and it came to life for me. I'll send you a link. ... : )
I can't assess Hanson very well, but from what I can see here, he is splendid! Music is like that - an enormous stream of composers and few are picked to not drown in this stream...
It has been years since I once indulged in the works, primarily the seven symphonies. I believe the Merry mount to be a singular masterpiece of third important American composers.
this piece by Hanson is interesting as music, of course, but i also pnnder the significance of when he was composing such things and the turf he advanced toward classical genres moving forward...
I have been wanting to give Hanson a good study. ... He was honored in his day as an educator - but overlooked as a composer. I think his peers overlooked a genius! - in favor of more trendy artists.
A nice suite indeed, my favorite movements are the first and last, really :D I really love the jolly theme at the end, so light and just a hint of jazz, but a whole batch of America! :D This is definitely something worth listening to again and again ;D
This is music from the 1930s. I think Hanson would've called himself an American Sibelius. Some call "Merry Mount" the first American opera. You can hear in him that certain distinct American sound - a certain expansiveness and purity.
Hi Mark - Your upload of M. Perahia playing Schubert is very cool - Horowitz opined that Schubert was a 'singer' that he was 'singing' - perhaps remarking that Schubert was primarily a writer of melody? ... hence the connection with Italian opera... could you please comment on that too - if this is interseting to you....
Regarding one comment below that the last part resembles the writing of Rimsky-Korskov, the closer resemblance are to the Polovtsian Dances of Borodin.
Most of this piece is quintessential Hanson, as distinctly his as the Romantic Symphony. But does anybody else hear some Rimsky-Korsakov in that last part?
I've read so much enthusiastic commentary on Schubert's songs. O how wonderful they are for this and that reason. And I still can't decide if there's something wrong with my taste level - or if someone's pulling my leg. : D I have a Schubert problem, like I have a Mozart problem, and I stick doggedly to these problems! - trying to find a solution. My Mahler problem needs no solving. He's awful. : )
0:01 I. Overture
3:15 II. Children’s Dance
5:03 III. Love Duet
10:48 IV. Prelude to Act II and Maypole Dances
🎹 This love duet is one of my favorite pieces of music... sumptuously performed here at a super slow tempo, allowing us to savor its' richness and beauty. 🎹 sumptuously
7:19 i’ve noticed Hanson likes his use of Timpani eight notes as a bass line or driving figure. It’s interesting to see in his Symphony No. 1 Romantic first movement sounding similar to the Love duet too. Such great composition!
Great work. Great performance. Thumbs up. Hats off...
Love the synopated rythmn at 12:00..
This suite is from what many consider to be the first proper American opera. But it's so rarely staged! Hanson's obscurity is unaccountable.
Could very well be the theme, the nasty, murderous and dangerous Puritans, today's Fundamentalist christianISTs... ? :)
BFDT agree
This seriously neglects Scott Joplin’s « Treemonisha » ==>>>.
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@@dougr.2398 Also neglects Douglas Moore's "The Ballad of Baby Doe" and "Giants in the Earth" from the early 1950's. Moore was just 3 years older than Hanson yet he wrote 12 operas almost none of which are still performed.
@@Renee2004lr Talk to me about Gianinni!
This is a magnificent recording great engineering. And a great interpretation by Kenneth Schermerhorn. An masterpiece of American music by Howard Hanson.
I love Howard Hanson’s work. I’m going to have The Love Duet played as my wedding processional. My first exposure to his music was in high school when the A Cappella choir performed his stunning Song of Democracy. In the movie Alien, director Ridley Scott used part of Hanson’s Romantic Symphony as Ripley has blasted the creature into space and also under the end credits. My local classical music station said Hanson was none too happy about it, nor was film composer Jerry Goldsmith who brilliantly scored the movie. Just a little trivia.
Under rated Genius..
I heard some Italians playing Schubert - and I loved it!
They let the SUN in on his cloudy music - and it came to life for me.
I'll send you a link. ... : )
MB7classical please post the link?
A measured yet truly passionate rendering. The Love Duet is positively sumptuous. Now I need listen to the entire opera.
I can't assess Hanson very well, but from what I can see here, he is splendid! Music is like that - an enormous stream of composers and few are picked to not drown in this stream...
Nice piece. I especially liked the Overture and the Love Duet. Hanson deserves to be heard more, both in concert halls and on the radio.
It is a literal crime that Hanson isn't performed (MUCH) more... 😔😥😔
It has been years since I once indulged in the works, primarily the seven symphonies. I believe the Merry mount to be a singular masterpiece of third important American composers.
third important? what on earth does that mean? rather pompous statement.
this piece by Hanson is interesting as music, of course, but i also pnnder the significance of when he was composing such things and the turf he advanced toward classical genres moving forward...
utter bs
I have been wanting to give Hanson a good study. ...
He was honored in his day as an educator - but overlooked as a composer.
I think his peers overlooked a genius! - in favor of more trendy artists.
Yes, very much. There is very little that can compare with the joy of creation and success certainly should always only be a by-product, not the aim.
A nice suite indeed, my favorite movements are the first and last, really :D I really love the jolly theme at the end, so light and just a hint of jazz, but a whole batch of America! :D This is definitely something worth listening to again and again ;D
That's true. And so I guess a composer must be happy to compose just so to please himself - and leave success to chance.
You need to buy the full opera (Naxos CD). This piece with voices is purely magical.
This is music from the 1930s. I think Hanson would've called himself an American Sibelius. Some call "Merry Mount" the first American opera. You can hear in him that certain distinct American sound - a certain expansiveness and purity.
Mmm I can imagine, it has to sound great like that (:, thank you for the tip!
Hi Mark - Your upload of M. Perahia playing Schubert is very cool - Horowitz opined that Schubert was a 'singer' that he was 'singing' - perhaps remarking that Schubert
was primarily a writer of melody? ... hence the connection with Italian opera... could you please comment on that too - if this is interseting to you....
Regarding one comment below that the last part resembles the writing of Rimsky-Korskov, the closer resemblance are to the Polovtsian Dances of Borodin.
nice
Loved "Children's Dance", quite lively compared to the usual character of Hanson's pieces - that I know so far ('
Most of this piece is quintessential Hanson, as distinctly his as the Romantic Symphony. But does anybody else hear some Rimsky-Korsakov in that last part?
Yes, definitely. Rimsky-Korsakov was a major influence, and it's very apparent in the fourth movement here.
“Waiting for fulfillment is”. (Robert Heinlein channeling V. Michael Smith.... in “Stranger in a Strange Land”. Which is a very Biblical title.)
I've read so much enthusiastic commentary on Schubert's songs. O how wonderful they are for this and that reason. And I still can't decide if there's something wrong with my taste level - or if someone's pulling my leg. : D
I have a Schubert problem, like I have a Mozart problem, and I stick doggedly to these problems! - trying to find a solution.
My Mahler problem needs no solving. He's awful. : )