Walter Piston - Prelude and Allegro for Organ and Strings (1943)

[TheTristan1954]

there are also some very clear books by Piston about harmony and contrapunt

[peppersax]

I feel that this is "everlasting music" Man, this guy is steadily climbing my list of world greatest classical composers. So far, everything I've heard from him, I like or love!! Many of his fast pieces remind me of Aaron Copland (another genius)! I listen to all types of music, but I also tend to return to this genre, classical! There really are no words to describe my love for classical music!!! BREATHTAKING!

[LovePoem1000]

I wonder if this is the performance by the Grant Park Orchestra under Carlos Kalmar. Wonderfully meditative Prelude, rousing Allegro. There is an ongoing crisis of lack of programming imagination in the US. Conductors would rather endlessly recycle the dead 19th Century Germans than turn to the rich source of music by Walter Piston and other 20th Century American composers. Perhaps more entries on Youtube like this will cure the dullards of their entrenched habits!

[maxbigazzi]

beautiful music!!

[minasgekos]

But again, who am I to judge him...

[minasgekos]

The change of colour at 1:01 is regrettable, isn't it? The rest is exquisite and quite sophisticated I would say.

[videoclog]

As always with Walter Piston, the music is clear, elegant, skillfully orchestrated and deeply moving. People who like this piece should try his Second Symphony. That one has also a beautiful slow movement.

Many thanks for this upload.