Sony Classical Presents "Copland Conducts Copland – The Complete Columbia Album Collection"

The new album features Copland's complete recordings for Columbia Masterworks from 1935 to 1976

Sony Classical has released a new album, Copland Conducts Copland – The Complete Columbia Album Collection. The album features Aaron Copland's complete own recordings for Columbia Masterworks from 1935 to 1976 on 19 CDs in collaboration with Benny Goodman, Isaac Stern, the Juilliard String Quartet, William Warfield, Henry Fonda, and more.

Within the collection, Copland's first recording of The Tender Land Suite and the first recording by the composer of Appalachian Spring for RCA Red Seal are included.

As a gifted pianist, Copland took part in the earliest recordings of his music back in the 1930s, as well as in many others that followed over nearly three decades.

Although it wasn’t until 1950 that he first conducted in a studio, he later took up the baton with increasing frequency. He once said to the choreographer Agnes de Mille, “I don’t think I’m ever going to compose anything else. I’m having such a good time conducting.”

Although Sony Classical has issued many of his CBS/Columbia recordings on CD before, including a major 5-disc set in 2013, this new 20-disc collection marks the first all-inclusive compilation of Aaron Copland’s authoritative interpretations with the composer’s six early recordings for the first time on Sony Classical CD.

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