{"product_id":"mennin-moby-dick-symphonies-nos-3-and-7","title":"Mennin: Moby Dick - Symphonies Nos. 3 and 7","description":"Peter Mennin was a leading member of the school of American symphonic composers who came of age in the 1930s and 1940s, a group that includes David Diamond, William Schuman and others. Cast in a traditional design of three movements in a fast-slow-fast pattern, Symphony No 3 is a work of great contrapuntal energy, percussive accents and propulsive rhythms. The composer described the passionate slow movement as “an extended song…making use of sustained voice-weaving.” Symphony No 7 develops in a single movement of remarkable contrasts and intensity. An exception to Mennin’s “pure” compositional approach, the concertato Moby Dick depicts “the emotional impact of the novel as a whole.” This recording has been acclaimed as “a fine tribute to an inexplicably neglected figure of the century’s American music scene”. -  \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"...along with Symphony No. 7 of Peter Mennin...may be the greatest of all American Traditionalist symphonies.\" - Walter Simmons,  \u003ci\u003eVoices in the Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e, page 377, (describing both the Symphony No. 1 of Nicolas Flagello and the Symphony No. 7 of Peter Mennin.)\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Naxos","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":49682394448152,"sku":"636943971826","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/2017564.jpg?v=1777586082","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/mennin-moby-dick-symphonies-nos-3-and-7","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}