Symphony No.3 - Walter Piston

Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra conducted by James Yannatos I - Andantino: 0:00 II - Allegro: 9:44 III - Adagio: 15:25 IV - Allegro: 26:06 Piston’s third symphony was composed between 1946 and 1947, as a comission for Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with which he collaborates for several decades. It is written in memory of Natalie Koussevitsky. With this work Piston won his first Pulitzer Prize. It was premiered on January 9, 1948, by the same orchestra and conductor. The work is divided in f