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AARON COPLAND
Copland: Symphony No. 3 / Three Latin American Sketches Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2017 ] 'Slatkin rightly tilts the music towards nobility' Orchestral Pick of the Month BBC Music Sept 2017 |
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LEONARD SLATKIN
Slatkin Conducts Slatkin - The Raven / Endgames / Kinah / In Fields Alec Baldwin (narrator) / Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Symphnoy Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Leonard Slatkin celebrated his 75th birthday in September 2019. Many of the selections in this program come from a concert given in his honour and are also a tribute to his remarkable musical family, both past and present. |
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ALLA BORZOVA
Alla Borzova: Songs For Lada & To The New World Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ] Born in Minsk, Belarus, Alla Borzova has received numerous prestigious awards for her highly imaginative music since moving to the United States in 1993. |
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AARON COPLAND
Copland: Appalachian Spring / Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] "A worthy companion to Andrew Litton's Colorado Copland; augurs well for the rest of this series." MusicWeek |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Complete Symphonies / Vocalise / Isle of the Dead / Symphonic Dances Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] "Slatkin is with Rachmaninov, all the way. He revels in the first movement's restless shifts, pitting the brute power of full ensemble against woodwind detail and soaring cellos." (William Dart NZ Herald on Symphony No. 3) |
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AARON COPLAND
Rodeo / Dance Panels / El Salón México / Danzón Cubano BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Apr/2015 ] "Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony...a great team, and this disc demonstrates just how far the orchestra have progressed under his tutelage. They sound supremely confident and at ease with themselves, and Rodeo shows them at their exuberant best. Ense |
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AARON COPLAND
Copland: Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes / Dance Panels / El Salón México / Danzón Cubano Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Jul/2013 ] "While performances do not disappoint - Slatkin and his players make a finely-tuned team - the choice of works on the disc is canny." (William Dart NZ Herald) |
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CINDY MCTEE
Symphony No. 1, Circuits, Einstein's Dream & Double Play Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Feb/2014 ] Cindy McTee's compositions embody the musical and cultural energy of modern-day America. Circuits, 'a boisterously jazzy sprint' (Detroit Free Press), is followed by Symphony No. 1 |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 / Vocalise (arr. for orchestra) Detroit Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] In the wake of his First Symphony's catastrophic première, Rachmaninov took a decade before commencing his Second, painstakingly revising it before conducting the triumphant première in 1908. Although haunted, like his First, by the Dies irae chant... |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 & Symphonic Dances Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Apr/2013 ] "Slatkin is with Rachmaninov, all the way. He revels in the first movement's restless shifts, pitting the brute power of full ensemble against woodwind detail and soaring cellos." (William Dart NZ Herald) |