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Leonard Slatkin Conducts Slatkin - The Raven, Endgames, Kinah & In Fields
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
Narrated by Alec Baldwin, Slatkin’s Edgar Allan Poesetting The Raven is the highlight here – eerily unsettling almost throughout, it is nonetheless engaging.
Leonard Slatkin Conducts Slatkin - The Raven, Endgames, Kinah & In Fields
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
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Narrated by Alec Baldwin, Slatkin’s Edgar Allan Poesetting The Raven is the highlight here – eerily unsettling almost throughout, it is nonetheless engaging.
About
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.'
Contents and tracklist
- Jeffery Zook (piccolo), Sharon Sparrow (alto flute), Monica Fosnaugh (cor anglais), Laurence Liberson (clarinet in E flat), Shannon Orme (bass clarinet), Marcus Schoon (contrabassoon)
- Detroit Symphony Orchestra
- Leonard Slatkin
- Alec Baldwin (narrator)
- Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra
- Leonard Slatkin
- Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra
- Leonard Slatkin
- Felix Slatkin (violin)
- Army Air Forces Training Command Orchestra
- Eddie Dunstedter
- Eleanor Aller (cello)
- The Warner Bros. Studio Orchestra
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold
- Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra
- Leonard Slatkin
- Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra
- Leonard Slatkin
- Manhattan School of Music Symphony Orchestra
- Leonard Slatkin
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Awards and reviews
May 2022
Narrated by Alec Baldwin, Slatkin’s Edgar Allan Poesetting The Raven is the highlight here – eerily unsettling almost throughout, it is nonetheless engaging.
April 2022
Altogether, it’s an intriguing collection, and the recording of the modern pieces is of superlative quality.
