When the regular stereo version of this CD was released, it was called "the ultimate release for the American Symphony fan". Well, in SACD format, it is of even more importance, since those magnificent orchestral colors truly shine in surround-sound!

This has always been a very popular recording and probably went a long way in changing the minds of those who thought Harris wrote only one Symphony - No. 3. This is wonderful American music that should appeal to the same public who likes Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Leonard Bernstein - and the crowd that loves to hear a big orchestral sound coming from their 5.1 Surround systems!

Musicians:
Alan Feinberg, piano
Albany Symphony Orchestra
David Alan Miller, conductor

Selections:
Roy Harris (1898-1979)
Symphony No. 8
1. Part I. "Childhood and Youth"
2. Part II. "Renunciation"
3. Part III. "The Building of the Chapel"
4. Part IV. "The Joy of Pantheistic Beauty as a Gift of God"
5. Part V. "Ecstasy After the Premonition of Death"
Memories of a Child's Sunday
6. Bells
7. Imagining Things
8. Play
Symphony No. 9
9. I. "We, the people"
10. II. "...to form a more perfect Union"
11. III. "...to promote the general welfare"
      Part I: "Of Life immense in passion, pulse, power"
      Part II: "Cheerful for freest action formed"
      Part III: "The Modern Man I sing"

Total Time: 66:34