Composer: Leonard Slatkin, Johannes Brahms, Franz Joseph Haydn, Cindy McTee, Daniel Slatkin, Felix Slatkin
Performer: Jeffery Zook, Sharon Sparrow, Monica Fosnaugh, Laurence Liberson, Shannon Orme, Marcus Schoon, Felix Slatkin, Eleanor Aller
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra, Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra, Warner Bros. Studio Orchestra
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin, Eddie Dunstedter, Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8574352
Release: 2022
Size: 732 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Slatkin: Endgames
Slatkin: The Raven
02. I. The Sleeper
03. II. The Bells
04. III. Romance
05. IV. The Coliseum
06. V. The Raven
07. Slatkin: Kinah
08. Slatkin D: In Fields
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 2 in D minor
09. No. 2 in F-Sharp Minor. Andantino (Arr. for Violin & Orchestra) [Live]
Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, Hob. VIIb:2 (Op. 101)
10. III. Rondo (Arr. E. Korngold for Cello & Orchestra)
11. trad.: Fisher’s Hornpipe (Arr. C. McTee & F. Slatkin for Orchestra)
12. McTee: Wistful Haven (After Dvořák’s B. 178)
13. Slatkin F: Carmen’s Hoedown
Leonard Slatkin celebrated his 75th birthday in September 2019. Many of the selections in this program come from a concert given in his honor and are also a tribute to his remarkable musical family, both past and present. Historical recordings include Leonard’s cellist mother, Eleanor Aller, being conducted by Korngold in the Haydn concerto and a 1944 broadcast of his father, Felix, as a solo violinist in Brahms. Every piece here has a deeply personal connection for the family. For his composition The Raven, Leonard used Edgar Allan Poe’s poem in a work that is ‘almost like a concerto for speaker and orchestra.’