CHARLES IVES Three Places in New England,
AARON COPLAND Lincoln Portrait,
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 “Eroica”
narrator Brian Caspe
Brno Philharmonic, conductor Case Scaglione
• Twentieth-century American classics and a landmark in Beethoven’s oeuvre under the baton of an American conductor who settled in Berlin
• Ives’s orchestral triptych (in a chamber version) as a cycle of pioneering polystylistic images of places in the composer’s New England
• Copland’s 1942 work including fragments of speeches and letters by the 16th president of the USA Abraham Lincoln and quotations from contemporary popular songs
• Narrated by American actor and musician Brian Caspe, active in Prague but also cast in Hollywood movies (Hellboy, Wanted, Illusionist and Running Scared)
