American Classics - Abraham Lincoln Portraits

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Album Summary

Performers

• Roger Wiesmeyer (Piano)
• Anthony LaMarchina (Cello)
• Sharon Mabry (Mezzo Soprano)
• Mary Vanosdale (Violin)

Conductor

• Slatkin, Leonard

Ensembles

• Nashville Symphony Chorus
• Nashville Symphony Orchestra

Composers

• Roy Harris (Vocals) (1898 - 1979)
• George Frederick McKay (1899 - 1970)
• Charles Ives (1874 - 1954)
• Ernst Bacon (1898 - 1990)
• Paul Turok (1929 - )
• Vincent Persichetti (1915 - 1987)
• Morton Gould (Composer/Conductor) (1913 - 1996)
• Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)

Notes & Reviews:

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), sixteenth President of the United States, has inspired many works of literature, art and music. To celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, the Nashville Symphony, Leonard Slatkin and Naxos have selected eight important works by leading American composers, some setting Lincoln's own immortal words, some words of poets inspired by him, others based on Lincoln's life and ideals. Turok's 'Variations on an American Song: Aspects of Lincoln and Liberty' is based on a folk tune Lincoln used as a campaign song, 'Rosin the Bow'.

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Classical Net
A special word about Sharon Mabry and the trio in Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight. The performers do a fine, although not life-altering job I think possible with the Harris. Nevertheless, this is one complicated work, and it demands laser-like concentration and the ability to know where you are at any point in the work. Otherwise, the cantata can come off as a musical blob. The performers understand the piece and bring the listener with them.

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Works Details

Ives, Charles : Lincoln, the Great Commoner, for chorus & orchestra, S. 184 (K. 5B5)

• Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
• Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 3 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1920

Persichetti, Vincent : A Lincoln Address, Op. 124

• Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
• Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Chorus
• Running Time: 13 min. 22 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Harris, Roy : Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, for mezzo-soprano & orchestra

• Performers: Roger Wiesmeyer (Piano); Anthony LaMarchina (Cello); Sharon Mabry (Mezzo Soprano); Mary Vanosdale (Violin)
• Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
• Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Chorus
• Running Time: 14 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Bacon, Ernst : A Few Glimpses of Easter Week, 1865, for orchestra

• Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
• Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Chorus
• Running Time: 27 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Gould, Morton : A Lincoln Legend, for orchestra

• Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
• Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Chorus
• Running Time: 16 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1941

McKay, George Frederick : To a Liberator (A Lincoln Tribute), for orchestra

• Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
• Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 10 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Turok, Paul : Variations on an American Song :: Aspects of Lincoln and Liberty, Op. 20

• Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
• Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 9 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Copland, Aaron : Lincoln Portrait

• Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
• Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra
• Running Time: 14 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1942