aworks :: "new" american classical music

Symphony No. 1 (1948-49/77/03). George Rochberg #crazy #colorful

• "This is the craziest music I have ever seen!" Naxos. It's not actually that crazy now, but maybe back in 1948...
• "The second ("Night Music") and third ("Capriccio") movements have had, at times, a life of their own away from the symphony, but here they have been restored to their rightful places." ClassicalNet
• "That’s a wild, imaginative, colorful piece, generally atonal but clearly not 12-tone, and with neoclassic elements." Kyle Gann
• "It is a fully-realized work that sums up the mid-century American symphonic style and is one of the style’s greatest achievements." Steve Hicken
• "he told WHYY's Terry Gross that serialism was better at building musical structures than it was at expressing emotion." NPR
• "a splendid chronicle and a penetrating analysis of the swerving socio-cultural movements of a volatile half-century as observed by two highly gifted individuals." Eagle Minds: Selected Correspondence of Istvan Anhalt and George Rochberg (1961-2005). Google Books

The Red Pony Suite (1948). Aaron Copland

I just listened to Enrique Batiz conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. A 2013 recording. Or is it in fact a re-release of an old recording? Discogs says this is a 1995 recording.  Does anybody still play and record this work?