Psalm for Band
Winds of the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Amos
Readers of these pages might remember my unbridled joy at the release of four of Persichetti’s symphonies on Albany. Now Naxos’s new Wind Band Classics series collects the mid-century Juilliard-based neoclassicist’s considerable repertoire for symphonic winds. When I first started listening to Pershichetti’s 1952 Psalm, I was reminded of Shostakovich’s 10th symphony which exudes a similar pathos, but I was delighted to discover that the Persichetti work predates it.
—FJO