The Dallas Morning News has reviewed
Naxos' re-issue of
Pare Lorentz's 1930s classics
The Plow That Broke the Plain and
The River -- with soundtracks re-recorded by the
Post-Classical Ensemble (P-CE).
It's a joy to hear Thomson's agreeably flinty music in up-to-date sonics, smartly played by the Washington, D.C.-based Post-Classical Ensemble, under conductor Angel Gil-Ordóñez. Thomson allows himself brief moments of gnarly mood music, but otherwise the score is a nonstop medley of marches, hymns, folk songs and what the composer himself called "darn-fool ditties," in harmonizations as spare as Lorentz's Dust Bowl scenes.
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