Anderson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2: Suite of Carols / A Harvard Festival / Song of Jupiter -BBC Concert Orchestra, L. Slatkin

Leroy Anderson etched out his own unique place in American music – a composer rigorously trained in the classical tradition whose records topped the pop charts, a meticulous arranger of music whose own melodies were crafted with inventive precision. While he labored alone over each measure of each piece, the result sounded as if he had pulled one marvelous tune after another out of his hat almost at will. Here, in the first complete cycle of Anderson’s orchestral music, the Anderson family has made available several pieces that the composer did not release, with some first recordings scattered among the familiar and not-so-familiar titles. Volume Two contains most of the little-known works from Anderson’s last decade.

Tracklist

 Artist details

Anderson, Leroy

 Woodbury Fanfare

 A Harvard Festival

 Forgotten Dreams

 Whistling Kettle

 Horse and Buggy

 The Waltzing Cat

 Home Stretch

 The Girl in Satin

 March of the Two Left Feet

 Waltz Around the Scale

 Lullaby of the Drums

 Jazz Legato

 Jazz Pizzicato

 Song of the Bells

 Song of Jupiter (arr. of Handel: Semele, HWV 58, "Where'er You Walk")

 Suite of Carols (version for strings)