Track Listing

1. Billy the Kid, orchestral suite from the ballet: Introduction: The Open Prairie
2. Billy the Kid, orchestral suite from the ballet: Street in a Frontier Town
3. Billy the Kid, orchestral suite from the ballet: Mexican Dance and Finale
4. Billy the Kid, orchestral suite from the ballet: Prairie Night: Card Game
5. Billy the Kid, orchestral suite from the ballet: Gun Battle
6. Billy the Kid, orchestral suite from the ballet: Celebration: After Billy's Capture
7. Billy the Kid, orchestral suite from the ballet: Billy's Death
8. Billy the Kid, orchestral suite from the ballet: The Open Prairie (reprise)
9. Billy the Kid, ballet: Waltz
10. Rodeo, selections from the ballet (including 'Four Dance Episodes'): Buckaroo Holiday
11. Rodeo, selections from the ballet (including 'Four Dance Episodes'): Corral Nocturne
12. Rodeo, selections from the ballet (including 'Four Dance Episodes'): Honky Tonk Interlude
13. Rodeo, selections from the ballet (including 'Four Dance Episodes'): Saturday Night Waltz
14. Rodeo, selections from the ballet (including 'Four Dance Episodes'): Hoe-Down
15. Grand Canyon Suite, for orchestra: Sunrise
16. Grand Canyon Suite, for orchestra: Painted Desert
17. Grand Canyon Suite, for orchestra: On the Trail
18. Grand Canyon Suite, for orchestra: Sunset
19. Grand Canyon Suite, for orchestra: Cloudburst

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92968 in Music
• Released on: 2006-02-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Customer Reviews

Nice presentations
I replaced my worn LP records with this CD and was not disappointed. I had forgotten how clean a presentation you get with CDs compared with the record but this CD quickly reminded me.

cozy nostalgic feel and great sound
I'm familiar with two other major interpretations on regular CD of the Copland ballets: Bernstein's with NY Phil and Slatkin's with St. Louis. While the Slatkin rendition was very satisfying in its simple approach, Morton Gould and his orchestra play these works as if it were for a B&W classic western movie. The style is very old fashioned but highly effective, and listening made me feel nostalgic even though I'm too young to have grown up in that just-after-WWII era. The Grand Canyon Suite by Grofe has that same cozy nostalgic feel further enhanced by some usual instrument placement and editing. A serious recording technician would probably laugh at the approach used by this orchestra and Living Stereo, but to me it's a silly but highly enjoyable masterpiece. The SACD Stereo sound is fantastic, and this is one of my SACD Top Picks!