SWING SYMPHONY
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS AND THE ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
CONDUCTED BY DAVID ROBERTSON
When Wynton Marsalis was commissioned to compose his third symphony, he took inspiration from composers like Ives, Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein, and Ellington as he sought to create a musical meditation on American ideals. The definitive performance of the resulting, critically acclaimed work—Swing Symphony—is now an album by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro David Robertson.
Commissioned in 2010 by the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Marsalis’s Symphony No. 3 is at once invigorating and elegiac, bombastic and introspective, and has been performed by orchestras around the world. This recording, which took place in front of a rapturous, sold-out crowd in St. Louis’s Powell Hall, marks the very first release of a modern classic that captures the full breadth of 20th-century orchestral music and the spirit of American optimism.
1. Movement I: St. Louis to New Orleans
2. Movement II: All-American Pep
3. Movement III: Midwestern Moods
4. Movement IV: Manhattan to LA Movement
5. V: Modern Modes and the Midnight Moan Movement
6. VI: Think-Space: Theory Movement
7. VII: The Low Down (Up on High)
