Appalachian Spring, El Salon Mexico: Mata / Dallas SO, etc

EMI American Classics
AARON COPLAND

Fanfare for the Common Man
Orquestra Filharmonica de la Cuidad de Mexico
Enrique Batiz, conductor
Digital Recording: 1985

Appalachian Spring
El Salon Mexico
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Eduardo Mata, conductor
Digital Recording: 1985, 1986

Old American Songs
Bruce Hubbard, baritone
The Orchestra of St. Luke's
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
Digital Recording: 1989

The music of Aaron Copland [1900-1990] is almost every music-lover's introduction to what might be called American 'classical' music.
Either through the picture postcard that is El Salon Mexico or the fresh-faced innocence of the ballet Appalachian Spring, Copland is able to capture in sound the wide open spaces, the melodic freshness and rhythmic vitality that, to most European ears, has come to epitomise American music.