| Naxos | Stock and the Chicago Symphony gave the first performance of the revised First Symphony on 24th October 1940. "It is peaceful music," Carpenter noted at the time of its première, "and in these days, perhaps that is something." Although it won kudos from Percy Grainger and others, and performances in the early 1940s by Fritz Reiner, Fabien Sevitzky, and Bruno Walter, the work subsequently fell into obscurity. The Second Symphony began life in 1941-1942 as an orchestral version of the composer’s 1934 Piano Quintet. Walter reaffirmed his appreciation of Carpenter by giving the first performance of the work with the New York Philharmonic on 22nd October 1942. In the ensuing years, Carpenter revised both the original Quintet (in 1946-47) and the Second Symphony (in 1947). This latter version of the symphony, used here, was given its first performance by Fritz Busch and the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia on 2nd July 1949 to good reviews. The evolution from the 1934 Quintet to the 1947 Second Symphony was a gradual one, as Carpenter retained his revisions from one version of the work to the next. All four versions of the work feature a brisk first movement, a sweetly yearning slow movement, and a bustling finale whose main theme derived from a tune the composer and his wife heard in Algiers while on holiday there in early 1934. Howard Pollack |
| Disc No: 8.559065 | |
| Price: Sek. 74 | |
| Name: Carpenter - Adventures in a Perambulator | |
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| Order |
| Composer | Opus | Music | Key | Performer |
| Carpenter, John Alden | Symphony No.1 | National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine - John McLaughlin Williams | ||
| Carpenter, John Alden | Adventures in a Perambulator | |||
| Carpenter, John Alden | Symphony No.2 |