There's a lot of good music by Paul Creston on records- and alas a lot
that hasn't been commercially released, too.  (I hear good things, for
instance, about his first symphony. And a work I heard on open-reel at
the New York Public Library, but know of no commercial recs of, was quite
good.) I first got a real notion of his range when I heard an orchestral
(I think) psalm-setting (not Corinthians, despite the common Biblical
connection, but I don't recall where a recording of the psalm- setting
is to be found) of his; only heard part of it but it sounded much more
impressionistic and, for want of a better word, delicate than I associate
with my own country's music most of the time (this century at least.) (Ah,
prejudice!:(Piston sym. 8 should have taught me about prejudging.)  Creston
had a wide range and firm craft. (Note the had- I'm pretty sure, one other
poster to the contrary, that he is alas no longer with us.)  I believe
there are at least 6 symphonies, the 4th available on openreel at NYPL (to
the degree one can speak of something being "available" in that fashion),
the 6th with organ I think, the first was in a Detroit Symphony orchestra
program last season I think (I wish I'd heard it), the 2nd is on (as
mentioned) Koch and Chandos, the 3rd and 5th on Delos, again as mentioned;
I know of but haven't heard the earlier LP of the 2nd&3rd (though a nearby
library has it and I might hear it sometime.)  There are also 2 violin
concerti (also "available" on openreel, but one can always hope for a
recording!), a 2-piano recording (on Koch, I think? or Centaur? I forget.)
(er, 2-piano concerto. I need to wake up.), a string quartet (on
Testament), among other works...  which as I said I find rather
consistently good though not all at the same level of emotional "depth"
(nor do they seek to be- nor should one ask them to be!)

-Eric Schissel