Title: Perhaps not a "Masterpiece" but very interesting
Product review: If it does nothing else this piece shows that early 19th C. America did not lack for home-produced classical music. Heinrich's piece has many virtues: The orchestration is inventive and colorful and the music is at all times pleasant and listenable. What it is NOT is memorable. It goes on for long stretches providing a pleasant background (violins and winds interweaving, occasional punctuations by percussion) but nowhere is there a semblance of a tune or melody. It does work fairly well as abstract tone painting- I can see some of the "Conflict of the Condor" at times- but often it's a lot of build up with no resolution. Still it's a very pleasant piece to play in the background.
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