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| Copland: Appalachian Spring; Billy the Kid; Rodeo | 
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| Creators: Aaron Copland, Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Label: RCA
Category: Music
List Price: $10.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 64634
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 65840
UPC: 828766584028
EAN: 0828766584028
ASIN: B0007INY3K
Release Date: March 22, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 Self-indulgent interpretation July 4, 2008
I must confess to an anti-Tilson-Thomas bias; but only as a result of this recording (and DVD) of Copland's Appalachian Spring. T-T has taken so many liberties that the piece is barely recognizable; well, okay, you can recognize it, but you wonder what the hell happened to it. It sounds like robots trying to play the blues, which is to say it's stiff, choppy, and doesn't swing. It slows down and speeds up with no apparent reason, other than perhaps their circuits going haywire. The music has so much inherent emotion and grandeur, T-T really shouldn't have made such a point of making it his own: Copland's is much better.
That said, the reason I gave it two stars instead of one (or none) is that it did make me listen to the score differently, and hear things that I hadn't heard in a more traditional interpretation. But I so disliked T-T's take on it in its entirety, that it just made me want to go back to the original and listen with perked-up ears, not listen to T-T's version again. Ever again.
 Excellent -- as expected January 7, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wonderful Copland music, conducted by the incomparable Michael Tilson Thomas.
My only issue: the CD cover says "Appalachian Spring; Billy the Kid; Rodeo" but the music on the CD plays in the order "Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring, Rodeo."
Appalachian Spring May 12, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
There are so many performances of this work that it has practcally become cliche. I have searched for years for a particular performance which has a small fugue in the violins. No, it is not the "Simple Gifts" theme. This performanc has it. It is exquisite and performed with sensitivity and skill under the baton of Tillson-Thomas. The entire work is played excellently with quality sound (concert hall experience). I have other recordings of the "Spring," but this one will be my mainstay.
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