Railroad Rhythms

SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern, Ji?í Stárek

Spanning more than a century, this album's programme features a variety of works on the theme of railway: from idyllic to impressionistic, reflecting realism and social criticism, yet all cast in a classical mould – as in Hilding Rosenberg’s Railroad Fugue. The variety of forms and wealth of ideas in these compositions from France, Sweden, the USA, Brazil, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland and Germany.

Bernstein:
 3 Dance Episodes from ‘On The Town'
 On the Town: Subway Ride and Imaginary Coney Island

Copland:
 John Henry

Dvorak:
 Humoresque in G flat major, Op. 101 No. 7
 Humoresques, Op. 101

Honegger:
 Movement symphonique No. 1 'Pacific 231'

Ibert:
 Le Metro
 Paris, Suite Symphonique pour orchestre

Indy:
 Horizons verts (Falconara)
 Poème des Rivages, Op. 77

Lumbye:
 Kopenhagener Eisenbahn-Dampf-Galopp

Pachernegg:
 Unter Dampf! Ein Zug fährt vorüber

Revueltas:
 Musica para Charlar No. 1 'Constructon of the Roalroad'

Rosenberg, H:
 Railway Fugue

Strauss, E:
 Bahn frei! Schnell-Polka, Op. 45
 Mit Dampf! Polka Schnell, Op. 70

Strauss, J, II:
 Vergnügungszug, Op. 281