 | Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain
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 | David Diamond: Symphony No. 3; Psalm, Kaddish
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.98 This disc includes Diamond's greatest symphony and other works.
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 | Flagello: Symphony 1 / Sea Cliffs
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 | George Rochberg: Symphony No. 5; Black Sounds; Transcendental Variations
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 | Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No. 22 ("City of Light"); Cello Concerto
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 | Walter Piston: Symphony No. 4; Three New England Sketches; Capriccio for Harp and String Orchestra
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 | Roy Harris: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 9
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 | Howard Hanson: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 by Kenneth Schermerhorn
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 | Virgil Thomson: Symphony No 1-3
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 | Hovhaness: The Rubaiyat / Exile Symphony (Symphony No. 1) / Meditation on Orpheus / Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints by Michael York
Buy used from: $5.00 Hovhaness' start to modern classical works.
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 | Amy Beach: "Gaelic" Symphony; Piano Concerto
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 | Rorem: Three Symphonies
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 | Creston: Symphonies 1-3
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 | Robert Simpson: Symphony No. 3; Symphony No. 5
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 | Bernstein: Dybbuk
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 | And God Created Great Whales
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 | Edward Rubbra - Complete Symphonies / Hickox by Edward Rubbra
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 | Melartin: The Six SYMPHONIES
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 | Samuel Barber: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
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 | Grofé: Orchestral Works by William T. Stromberg
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 | Hovhaness: Symphony Nos. 22 "City of Light Symphony" & 50 "Mount St. Helens Symphony"
Buy used from: $2.63 Another time Hovhaness was deeply moved - this time by the eruption of Mt St Helens.
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 | Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2 / The Gong on the Hook & Ladder, or Firemen's Parade on Main Street / Tone Roads No. 1 / Hymn: Largo Cantabile, for String Orchestra / Hallowe'en / Central Park in the Dark / The Unanswered Question - Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic by Charles Ives
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $6.00 You must listen to Ives' eclectic classical mix.
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 | Williams: The Five Sacred Trees (Bassoon Concerto) / Takemitsu: Tree Line / Hovhaness: Symphony No. 2, Op. 132 "Mysterious Mountain" / Picker: Old and Lost Rivers by John Williams
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.97 John Williams - but don't expect the usual film score...
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 | Hovhaness: Requiem and Resurrection; Symphony No. 19 "Vishnu"
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 | Bernstein Century - Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, etc / Bernstein, New York PO
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