Leonard Slatkin - The American Collection 13-cd

Leonard Slatkin; Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C.

Sony Classical is pleased to announce another ten releases in its increasingly comprehensive series of Classical Masters. These new budget-priced releases contain classic recordings, many of them newly remastered, by some of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. During his long music directorships of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra – America’s second-oldest, founded in 1880 – and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C., conductor Leonard Slatkin brought these ensembles regularly into the recording studio to perform a wide swath of American repertoire – major works by composers including Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Leonard Bernstein, William Schuman and John Corigliano, as well as more popular fare by John Philip Sousa, Virgil Thomson, Victor Herbert, Ferde Grofé, Leroy Anderson and Morton Gould, plus the national anthem and Battle Hymn of the Republic. Those recordings, acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic, have now been collected in a one extensive release.DISC 1 - Works of Leroy Anderson1     Belle of the Ball    2     The Phantom Regiment    3     The First Day of Spring    4     Sleigh Ride    5     Plink, Plank, Plunk!    6     Blue Tango    7     Forgotten Dreams    8     Bugler's Holiday    9     The Penny-Whistle Song    10     Clarinet Candy    11     Horse and Buggy    12     A Trumpeter's Lullaby    13     Fiddle Faddle    14     Jazz Pizzicato    15     Jazz Legato    16     The Syncopated Clock    17     Sandpaper Ballet    18     The Typewriter    19     The Waltzing Cat    20     Promenade    21     Saraband    22     Serenata    23     Balladette    24     Arietta    25     Home Stretch     DISC 2 - CD     Bernstein: Songfest - A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra        Opening Hymn    1     I. To the Poem        Bernstein: Three Solos    2     II. The Pennycandystore Beyond the El    3     III. A Julia de Burgos    4     IV. To What You Said        Bernstein: Three Ensembles    5     V. I, Too, Sing America - Okay "Negroes"    6     VI. To My Dear and Loving Husband    7     VII. Storyette H. M.        Bernstein: Sextet    8     VIII. "if you can't eat you got to"        Bernstein: Three Solos    9     IX. Music I Heard With You    10     X. Zizi's Lament    11     XI. Sonnet: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed ...        Bernstein: Closing Hymn    12     XII. Israfel        Bernstein: Seven Anniversaries    13     In Memoriam: Nathalie Kossevitzky, No. 5    14     Edgar Varèse: Arcana     DISC 3 - Works of Aaron Copland    Symphony for Organ and Orchestra (1924)    1     Andante    2     Scherzo    3     Finale: Lento        Dance Symphony (1929)    4     Introduction: Lento, molto allegro    5     Andante moderato    6     Allegro vivo        Short Symphony (Symphony No. 2) (1932-33)    7     Incisivo    8     Espressivo    9     Presto e ritmico    10     Orchestral Variations (1957)     DISC 4 - Works of Aaron Copland    The Red Pony    1     Morning on the Ranch    2     The Gift    3     Dream March    4     Circus Music    5     Walk to the Bunkhouse    6     Grandfather's Story    7     Happy Ending    8     Our Town    9     The Heiress Suite        Music for Movies    10     New England Countryside    11     Barley Wagons    12     Sunday Traffic    13     Grovers Corners    14     Threshing Machines    15     Prairie Journal (Music for Radio)     DISC 5 - Works of Aaron Copland    Symphony No. 3    1     I. Molto moderato    2     II. Allegro molto    3     III. Andantino quasi allegretto    4     IV. Molto deliberato        Music for a Great City    5     Skyline    6     Night Thoughts    7     Subway Jam    8     Toward the Bridge     DISC 6 - Works of John Corigliano1    Of Rage and Remembrance (Chaconne based upon Symphony No. 1, Movement III)        Symphony No. 1    2     I. Apologue. Of Rage and Remembrance    3     II. Tarantella    4     III. Chaconne. Giulio's Song    5     IV. Epilogue     DISC 7 - Works of John Corigliano1     Tournaments    2     Fantasia on an Ostinato (Version for Orchestra)    3     Elegy        Conce

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