Roy Harris: Symphony No. 3 / William Schuman: Symphony No. 3
Until we see what Leonard Slatkin and Gerard Schwarz do with this  symphony in their ongoing examinations of American music, this recording has the  field to itself (accounts by Serge Koussevitzky and Arturo Toscanini, dating  from 1939 and 1940 respectively, are sonically out of the running). Leonard  Bernstein gives a tough, craggy rendition of the score; the playing of the  Philharmonic is very sonorous, the recording close and vivid.--Ted  Libbey