The Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, conducted by founder Daniel Spalding, give George Antheil's once notorious Ballet mécanique an exciting and colorful performance for Naxos here. While this work has lost much of its ability to shock, it is nevertheless an invigorating composition, sounding fresh and impertinent even today. With considerable energy and accuracy, the players present the work's audacious effects with appropriate brusqueness and metallic incisiveness, sparing nothing at the music's explosive end. ...
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The Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, conducted by founder Daniel Spalding, give George Antheil's once notorious Ballet mécanique an exciting and colorful performance for Naxos here. While this work has lost much of its ability to shock, it is nevertheless an invigorating composition, sounding fresh and impertinent even today. With considerable energy and accuracy, the players present the work's audacious effects with appropriate brusqueness and metallic incisiveness, sparing nothing at the music's explosive end. Using the revised version from 1953, the ensemble here consists of four pianos, two xylophones, glockenspiel, various standard percussion, two electric bells, and the drones of two airplane propellers of different sizes. Antheil's clarified orchestration heightens the clever play of interlocking patterns and the even dispersal of the percussion's sharp timbres. In the course of the piece's rambunctious activity, the overwhelming influence of Stravinsky becomes apparent. The pounding...
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