From the New World: George Gershwin: Overture - "Strike up the band"; George Gershwin: Lullaby; Aaron Copland: Danzon Cubano; Josef Pablo Garcia: Huapango: Arthur Benjamin: North American Square Dance; Jay Livingston: Mr. Christopher Columbus; Scott Joplin: Two Rags from “Treemonisha”; Richard Rodgers: Oklahoma Medley; Leonard Bernstein: A simple song from "Mass"; George Gershwin: Overture – “Girl crazy"
SWR Rundfunkorchester – Kaiserlautern
Klaus Arp, Saul Schechtmann, Ernst Wedam and Caspar Richter, Conductors

Journey with the Kaiserlautern as the take you on a musical travelogue of North America! Our first stop is Broadway, with the first of two Gershwin overtures. Other stops include a hop down to Cuba, courtesy of Aaron Copland, the foothills of Kentucky with Arthur Benjamin and a generous helping of favorites from Oklahoma! Special treats on this enjoyable disc are a pair of ragtime dances from Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha, Garcia's spicy Huapango and rare performance of music from Livingston's Mr. Christopher Columbus!

From the New World: George Gershwin: Overture - "Strike up the band"; George Gershwin: Lullaby; Aaron Copland: Danzon Cubano; Josef Pablo Garcia: Huapango: Arthur Benjamin: North American Square Dance; Jay Livingston: Mr. Christopher Columbus; Scott Joplin: Two Rags from “Treemonisha”; Richard Rodgers: Oklahoma Medley; Leonard Bernstein: A simple song from "Mass"; George Gershwin: Overture – “Girl crazy"
SWR Rundfunkorchester – Kaiserlautern
Klaus Arp, Saul Schechtmann, Ernst Wedam and Caspar Richter, Conductors

Journey with the Kaiserlautern as the take you on a musical travelogue of North America! Our first stop is Broadway, with the first of two Gershwin overtures. Other stops include a hop down to Cuba, courtesy of Aaron Copland, the foothills of Kentucky with Arthur Benjamin and a generous helping of favorites from Oklahoma! Special treats on this enjoyable disc are a pair of ragtime dances from Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha, Garcia's spicy Huapango and rare performance of music from Livingston's Mr. Christopher Columbus!

Mit dieser CD wird der Ausdruck "Aus der Neuen Welt" wörtlich genommen. Nicht Dvoráks 9. Sinfonie steht im Mittelpunkt dieser Veröffentlichung, sondern die Musik Nordamerikas.
Die Palette reicht von Aaron Coplands "Danzón Cubano" bis zum ebenso mitreißenden "Huapango" des Mexikaners José Pablo Moncayo Garcia. Dazwischen unbekanntere Werke: zwei Ragtimes aus der Oper "Treemonisha", die einen interessanten Einblick in das Opernschaffen Scott Joplins geben. Ebenso "Lullaby", das als Streichquartett konzipierte Frühwerk von George Gershwin. Und was könnte amerikanischer sein als der Square Dance? Dieser ist hier in Form einer Orchestersuite des in Australien geborenen Arthur Benjamin vertreten.