MacDowell
Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) was an American composer and pianist, one of the first American composers to gain a serious international reputation. Born in New York, he studied in Europe and later taught at Columbia University.
His works include piano concertos, orchestral pieces, songs, choral music and many piano works. The Woodland Sketches, including To a Wild Rose, are among his best-known pieces.
MacDowell...
VARIOUS "Piano Music by American Composers"
Recorded c.1944, 1941
Total duration: 46:57
Jeanne Behrend, piano
BACH Prelude and Fugue in E-flat, “St. Anne”
BACH Toccata and Fugue in D minor
BENJAMIN Overture to an Italian Comedy
BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 1
CHAUSSON Symphony in B-flat
DVOŘÁK Carnival Overture
DVOŘÁK In Nature’s Realm
ELGAR Enigma Variations
GLAZUNOV The Seasons
GLINKA Ruslan and Ludmila - Overture
GOLDMARK Rustic Wedding Symphony
GRIEG Peer Gynt excerpts
MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream excerpts
R. STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra
R. STRAUSS Aus Italien - On the Shores of Sorrento
SAINT-SAËNS Danse macabre
SMETANA The Bartered Bride - Overture
STOCK Symphonic Waltz
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Marche slave
WAGNER Siegfried - Forest Murmurs
WAGNER Die Meistersinger - Prelude
plus music by: Bizet, Carey, Dohnányi, Enescu, François Schubert, Glière, Handel, Ippolitov-Ivanov, J. Strauss II, Järnefelt, Liadov, MacDowell, Meacham, Mozart, Paganini, Ponchielli, Rezniček, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Simonetti, Suk, Suppé, Thomas, Toch, Volkmann, Walton, Weber and Wolf-Ferrari
Studio recordings, 1930-1941
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Frederick Stock
WAGNER Preludes & Orchestral Excerpts
BRAHMS Hungarian Dances
DVOŘÁK Carnival Overture
GOLDMARK In Springtime Overture
J. STRAUSS II Four Waltzes
SUPPÉ Poet And Peasant Overture
THOMAS Mignon Overture
music by Elgar, Sibelius, Handel, Mendelssohn et al
Studio recordings, 1916-1926
Total duration: 2hr 30:36
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Frederick Stock
WALLINGFORD RIEGGER New Dance
EDWARD MACDOWELLSuite No. 2, Op. 48 "Indian"
Recorded in 1953 & 1955
Total duration: 64:19
Howard Hanson, conductor
