Antheil: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6 and Other Works

Featuring

John Storgårds
BBC Philharmonic
George Antheil

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Antheil, after returning to the USA in 1933, sought to cultivate a distinctively American creative voice, leaving his Eurocentric avant-garde tendencies behind.

Recording & Production

This Chandos recording uses 24-bit / 96 kHz technology, which offers a dynamic range up to 48 dB greater and 256 times the resolution of standard 16-bit recordings.

Composition History

Antheil's numbering of his symphonies was often uncertain, with works changing numbers or even having alternative versions, such as two Fifth Symphonies, one 'Tragic' and one 'Joyous'.

Composition History

The 'Spectre of the Rose Waltz' is music from the 1946 film noir "Specter of the Rose" by Ben Hecht, which Antheil later re-orchestrated as a concert waltz.

Performer Biography

John Storgårds, the conductor on this album, has a dual career as a conductor and violin virtuoso and is known for his creative programming of traditional, rarely performed, and contemporary music.

Composer Biography

George Antheil, after a period as an "enfant terrible" in Paris during the 1920s, moved away from experimental modernism to develop a simpler, tonal idiom.

Composition History

Antheil undertook a thorough analysis of seminal symphonic works by composers like Beethoven and Mahler to improve his grasp of orthodox compositional techniques.