Folk tunes provide a focal point in this installment of the New York Philharmonic this Week. 

In Copland’s Old American Songs of 1950, the composer orchestrated and reworked American folk tunes, and in the process, conjures up a sound that’s rustic and pure. The dapper baritone Nathan Gunn rustic is the soloist in these. Similarly, Mahler uses the famous folk song "Frère Jacques" in the third movement of his Symphony No. 1. He also quotes a melodic idea from one of his own song cycle Songs of a Wayfarer. Alan Gilbert conducts both works in this performance from the Vail Valley Music Festival.

Program:

Alan Gilbert, conductor

Nathan Gunn, baritone

Copland: Old American Songs  (selections)

Mahler: Symphony No. 1

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