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Composer: George Antheil
- Symphony No. 1
- Symphony No. 6 "after Delacroix"
- Archipelago, rhumba
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hugh Wolff, conductor
Date: 2000
Label: CPO
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George Antheil, born in New Jersey 100 years ago in July, peaked early in his career, scandalising Twenties Paris with his Futurist ‘machine music’, like the startlingly original Ballet mécanique. But even before that, this self-styled ‘bad boy of music’ had written a work in the respectable form of the symphony; and during his chequered later career, which ended in Hollywood, he composed another five (and two more without numbers).
Naxos partners No. 6 with No. 4, premiered by Stokowski in 1944, and a 1948 concert overture depicting an episode in the American Revolution. Both these are hero-worshipping homages to the martial Shostakovich of the Leningrad Symphony – though their stop-start collage methods are no substitute for Shostakovich’s organic movement-building. Theodore Kuchar’s Ukrainian orchestra plays well in an idiom which it must have found unexpectedly familiar, and is well recorded. But Antheil the symphonist, oddly fascinating if deeply flawed, is better represented all round by the premium-price CPO disc.
-- Anthony Burton, BBC Music Magazine
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George Antheil (July 8, 1900 – February 12, 1959) was an American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor whose modernist musical compositions explored the modern sounds – musical, industrial, mechanical – of the early 20th century. Spending much of the 1920s in Europe, Antheil returned to the US in the 1930s, and thereafter spent much of his time composing music for films and, eventually, television. A man of diverse interests and talents, Antheil was constantly reinventing himself. He also wrote magazine articles, an autobiography, a mystery novel, newspaper and music columns.
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Hugh Wolff (born October 21, 1953) is an American conductor. He received his higher education at Harvard and Peabody Conservatory, where he studied piano with Leon Fleisher. Wolff also studied composition with Olivier Messiaen and conducting with Charles Bruck in Paris. He was principal conductor and music director of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic (1981-86), the New Jersey Symphony (1986-93), the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (1988-2000), the Frankfurt Radio Symphony (1997-2006) and the Belgian National Orchestra (2017-22). Wolff has recorded extensively for Teldec, Sony and others.
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