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Harris: Symphonies Nos. 7 and 9.
Theodore Kuchar, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. Naxos 8.559050.
Naxos's American composer series goes on its way, continuing the most comprehensive survey of American classical music any single record label has ever attempted. The fact that the label has chosen a Ukrainian orchestra to play many of the pieces may strike one as a bit odd considering Naxos's contracts with American ensembles, but the Orchestra of Ukraine play beautifully, and I'm sure no one will mind their origins.
Roy Harris (1898-1979) wrote thirteen symphonies between 1933 and 1976, along with almost every other kind of music besides. His Seventh and Ninth derive from 1952 and 1962 respectively, and in addition (probably because the two symphonies are relatively short) the Naxos disc includes Harris's Epilogue to Profiles in Courage--J.F.K.
Of the three works represented on the disc, none of which I had heard before, I found the Seventh Symphony by far the most rewarding. It is a single-movement piece lasting about nineteen minutes, developing a solitary theme from a moody, evocative opening to a rousing, energetic climax. If it hadn't been labeled a "symphony," I'd have considered it a tone poem or possibly a set of variations, but ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Harris: Symphonies Nos. 7 and 9.