If you like this music, you'll love this CD
03/18/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I've been looking for a CD that brings together some favorite pieces by American composers and this does a great job. The performance is clear and precise...with a lot of energy. The Ives is suitably ethereal and impressionist, the Schuman and Griffes are driving and powerful. Turn it up and enjoy the pleasures of the American landscape, imagery, spirit, culture, and mythology in beautiful melodies and rhythms."
Fine American anthology
Timothy F. Ortlieb | USA | 05/22/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This CD might as easily have been called "America's Second Greatest Hits" in that it contains the "lollipops" of composers not named Gershwin, Copland or Barber. As such, it serves a useful purpose if you just want the basics of these composers. Suffice it to say that all the performances here are polished and poetic and the Dorian recording is spectacular--natural, with percussion and brass especially riveting."