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Who are these people? They haven’t a shred of a true French sound in any department. You can’t really blame Leonard Slatkin. His Corsaire Overture
For years consumers had two choices in this music (at
Here’s a live performance of the Second Symphony that really lives up to the expectations of a live event: exciting, spontaneous, and impulsive, but also
William Bolcom’s ambitious setting of William Blake’s complete Songs of Innocence and Experience for soloists, multiple choral forces, and orchestra occupied the composer on and
It’s usual to say, somewhat condescendingly, that Leroy Anderson was a great “light music” composer, but the fact is that he was a great composer.
It’s hard not to like Leroy Anderson, a skilled orchestral craftsman with a rich supply of clever ideas, an ingratiating musical imagination, and, thank heaven,
This was one of the first releases on the new and short-lived independent Virgin Classics label, and it remains one of the best versions of
Leonard Slatkin recorded a marvelous Leroy Anderson collection for RCA with the St. Louis Symphony, and of course Anderson’s own recordings for Decca/MCA remain special,
This curious hodgepodge of a disc begins with the Liszt First piano concerto in a straightforward, exciting performance by young Chinese pianist Peng Peng (no,
Leonard Slatkin recorded only a handful of Shostakovich symphonies for RCA, of which this Fourth is the finest. Indeed, it’s one of the best performances
