Music of Alan Hovahaness

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Composer or Director: Alan Hovhaness

Label: Delos

Magazine Review Date: 1/2000

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 128

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: DE3711

Tracks:

Composition	Artist Credit
Symphony No. 50, 'Mount St Helens'	Alan Hovhaness, Composer Alan Hovhaness, Composer Gerard Schwarz, Conductor Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Prelude and Quadruple Fugue	Alan Hovhaness, Composer Alan Hovhaness, Composer Gerard Schwarz, Conductor Seattle Symphony Orchestra
String Quartet No. 3, 'Reflections on my Childhood	Alan Hovhaness, Composer Alan Hovhaness, Composer Shanghai Qt
And God Created Great Whales	Alan Hovhaness, Composer Alan Hovhaness, Composer Gerard Schwarz, Conductor Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 2, 'Mysterious mountain'	Alan Hovhaness, Composer Alan Hovhaness, Composer Gerard Schwarz, Conductor Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 53, 'Star Dawn'	Alan Hovhaness, Composer Alan Hovhaness, Composer Keith Brion, Conductor Ohio State Concert Band
Alleluia and Fugue	Alan Hovhaness, Composer Alan Hovhaness, Composer Gerard Schwarz, Conductor Seattle Symphony Orchestra
String Quartet No. 2, Movement: Spirit Murmurs	Alan Hovhaness, Composer Alan Hovhaness, Composer Shanghai Qt
String Quartet No. 2, Movement: Gamelan in Sosi Style	Alan Hovhaness, Composer Alan Hovhaness, Composer Shanghai Qt
String Quartet No. 2, Movement: Hymn	Alan Hovhaness, Composer Alan Hovhaness, Composer Shanghai Qt
Celestial Fantasy	Alan Hovhaness, Composer Alan Hovhaness, Composer Gerard Schwarz, Conductor Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Meditation on Orpheus	Alan Hovhaness, Composer Alan Hovhaness, Composer Gerard Schwarz, Conductor Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Author: Andrew Achenbach

The ideal Hovhaness starter-pack, containing exemplary performances (for the most part stunningly well engineered) of three of the most memorable symphonies by this notoriously prolific figure, as well as a wide-ranging sprinkling of other works, from the blissful Third Quartet to the primeval landscape of And God Created Great Whales (1970) with its striking incorporation of actual whale song. If you missed out on these Delos specials first time round, you've no excuse now!'