In Reply to: The Great American Symphony posted by TGR on March 21, 2015 at 12:10:29:
A lot of these works had their best recordings in the analog era, and some have had no commercial recordings since (e.g. the Sessions Symphony 3; I wonder what ever happened to Igor Buketoff).
I think the recording of the Piston 6 to have is still the Munch. I have it in a Japanese RCA Munch Edition CD, coupled with an equally fabulous Martinu 6 (which was *composed* in the US).
By the way, Cedille has a new recording of the work on the flipside of the Sessions, Benjamin Lee's Concerto for String Quartet. That RCA recording was pretty shrill. New World Records will still burn you a CDR of the older recording.
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