Nat Orc Inst Phil/Miller - John Harbison: Symphony No. 4, Carl Ruggles: Sun-Treader, Steven Stucky: Second Concerto for Orchestra

This release brings together three American orchestral masterpieces in a programme that will impress and delight in equal measure. A study in dramatic contrasts, Carl Ruggles� Sun-Treader is an overwhelming, granite-hued tone poem by one of New England�s most original and uncompromising composers. Steven Stucky�s luminous Pulitzer Prize-winning Second Concerto for Orchestra is a riveting exploration of sonority and sound-painting while John Harbison�s Fourth Symphony is a big, bold, jazz-imbued work by one of America�s most important living symphonists.