The Ultimate Copland Album—An American Celebration

1999: Decca 289 466 909-2

1. Fanfare for the Common Man

   Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Antal Dorati

   
    

   from Rodeo

   Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Antal Dorati

2. Saturday Night Waltz
3. Hoe-Down
    

   from Old American Songs

   English Chamber Orchestra/Carl Davis
   Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano

4. Simple Gifts
    

   from Appalachian Spring

5. Variations on a Shaker Hymn
    

   from Music for Movies

   London Sinfonietta/Elgar Howarth

6. Grovers Corners (from Our Town)
    

   from Billy the Kid

   Baltimore Symphony Orchestra/David Zinman

7. Introduction—The open prairie
8. Street in a frontier town
9. Mexican dance
10. Gun Battle
11. Celebration (After Billy’s capture)
12. The open prairie again
     
13. El salón México
     

    Appalachian Spring

    Detroit Symphony Orchestra/Antal Dorati

14. Very Slowly
15. Allegro
16. Moderato: The Bride and her Intended
17. Fast: The Revivalist and his Flock
18. Allegro: Solo Dance of the Bride
19. Meno mosso
20. Doppio movimento: Variations on a Shaker Hymn
21. Moderato: Coda

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Comments © 2005 Mark Ellis Walker, except as noted, and no claim is made to the images and quoted lyrics.