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Roy Harris & John Adams - Violin Concertos
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Label: Signum
Cat No: SIGCD468
Barcode: 0635212046821
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 30th September 2016
Roy Harris may be the most all-American composer you have never heard of. He was born in an Oklahoma log cabin and paid his way through Berkeley partly by driving a truck, before following his contemporary Copland to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger. His 1949 Violin Concerto is an ambitious work, sprawling but dynamic. Slower sections are rhapsodic, drawn-out and soaring – A Bluebird Ascending, perhaps – while more driven passages have the wide open landscape sound so evocative of the US, and which one might have previously labelled Coplandesque. 
By my count, there have been five recordings of Adams’s Concerto before this one – all eminently recommendable. Tamsin Waley-Cohen’s new account doesn’t make the choice any easier, for her interpretation is technically beyond reproach and musically imaginative. What makes this recording indispensible is the coupling. ... Harris’s Concerto is a major (re-)discovery, and Waley-Cohen outclasses Fulkerson’s pioneering version in every respect. Andrew Litton and the BBC Symphony provide superb, supple support. Not to be missed. 
