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Essential American Classics - Over 2 hours of America's best-loved classical music

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-06-05

Works: Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Bamboula, danse des nègres for piano, Op. 2, D. 13 (RO 20); Stephen Foster: My Old Kentucky Home, for voice & piano; Beautiful dreamer; Edward MacDowell: To a Wild Rose;...
Performers: Allen, Geri; Barclay, John; Bennett, Richard Rodney [Composer]; Carter, Regina [Violin]; Criswell, Kim; Gardner, Simon; Glaser, Matt; Goodchild, Mark; Hampson, Thomas; Hendricks, Barbara [Soprano Voc...
Conductors: Foley, Timothy; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Slatkin, Leonard; Slatkin, Felix; Richardson, Neil; McGlinn, John; Thomas, Michael Tilson; Bátiz, Enrique; Davies, Dennis R.; Paavo, Järvi; Warren-Green,...

Essential Bernstein / Over 2 hours of dramatic American classics

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-02-07

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Candide; Fancy Free; On the Town; West Side Story; Facsimile; Prelude, Fugue and Riffs; Wonderful Town; Chichester Psalms; Divertimento for Orchestra; Mass; Symphony no 2 'The Age ...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Barley, Peter; Blair, Lionel; Corkhill, David [Conductor]; Dessay, Natalie; Gaines, Davis; Gheorghiu, Angela; Hendricks, Barbara [Soprano Vocal]; Hubbard, Bruce; Kahane, Jeffrey; Lie...
Conductors: Previn, Andre; Litton, Andrew; Love, Geoff; Slatkin, Leonard; McGlinn, John; Armstrong, Richard; Paavo, Järvi; Davis, Andrew; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Cleobury, Stephen; Davies, Dennis R.; Ericson, E...

The American composer, conductor, pianist and educator Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990) was one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history....continue...

Great American Showpieces

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2011-05-17

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Candide; Dance Episodes (3) from "On the Town", for orchestra; Aaron Copland: El salón México; Danzón Cubano; George Gershwin: An American in Paris; Cuban Overtu...
Conductors: Slatkin, Leonard; Mata, Eduardo

The Music of America: Bernstein

3 CD / Sony Classical / 2010-06-08

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Candide; Symphonic Dances from West Side Story; Prelude, Fugue and Riffs; Serenade for Violin and Orchestra "after Plato's Symposium"; Chichester Psalms; Songfest, song cycle for 6...
Performers: Adrian, Max; Alexander, Cris; Chaplin, Sydney; Chapman, William; Cheek, John; Comden, Betty; Cook, Barbara [pop vcl]; Goodman, Benny; Green, Adolph; Grist, Reri [Soprano Vocals]; Hahn, Hilary; Hartma...
Conductors: Bernstein, Leonard; Zinman, David; Slatkin, Leonard; Goberman, Max; Vaccariello, Patrick; Engel, Lehman

Best Violin 100

6 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-01-26

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera"; Sonata for Violin and Basso Continuo in A major, Op. 2 no 2/RV 31; Fritz Kreisler: Sonata for Violin in G minor 'The De...
Performers: Balsam, Artur; Barbizet, Pierre; Barenboim, Daniel [Conductor, Piano]; Beznosiuk, Pavlo; Brown, Ian [Piano]; Capucon, Renaud; Chang, Sarah; Chung, Kyung-Wha [Violin]; Collard, Jean-Phillipe; Domingo,...
Conductors: Lysy, Alberto; ; Halstead, Anthony; Accardo, Salvatore; Pritchard, John; Karajan, Herbert von; Marriner, Sir Neville; Boult, Adrian; Kondrashin, Kirill; Goossens, Eugene, Sir; Dervaux, Pierre; Previn...
Ensemble: ; Camerata Lysy Gstaad; Europa Galante; Hanover Band

This 6-CD set contains a fine collection of 100 favorite violin classics, performed by some of the world's leading artists. Among them are giants of...continue...

Best Ballet 100 - Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Copland, etc / Rattle, Ozawa, Previn, et al

6 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-09-02

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake; Sleeping Beauty Suite, Op. 66a; Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a; Eugen Onegin; Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48; Symphony no 3 in D major, Op. 29 "Polish"; Conc...
Performers: Carol, Norman; Donohoe, Peter; Gammon, Philip; Pletnev, Mikhail; Pletnev, Mikhail [Piano, Conductor]; Truman, Robert; Warren-Green, Christopher [Violin/Conductor]
Conductors: Lanchbery, John; Paavo, Järvi; Irving, Robert; Previn, Andre; Khachaturian, Aram; Temirkanov, Yuri; Wordsworth, Barry; Kern, Terence; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Rosenthal, Manuel; Rattle, Simon, S...

EMI American Classics - Leonard Bernstein / Paävo Jarvi, Sir Simon Rattle, Leonard Slatkin, St. Louis SO, et al

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-06-24

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Candide; Facsimile; Dance Episodes (3) from "On the Town", for orchestra; Symphonic Dances from West Side Story; Prelude, Fugue and Riffs; 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, musical (withdr...
Performers: Hubbard, Bruce; Liberman, Barbara
Conductors: Slatkin, Leonard; Paavo, Järvi; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Davies, Dennis R.
Ensemble: ; Orchestra of St. Luke's; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Like Gershwin before him, Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990) composed music for the concert hall and for musical theatre. Through the Broadway musical 'West Side Story', his...continue...

EMI American Classics - William Schuman: Violin Concerto; Bernstein / Leonard Slatkin, Robert McDuffie, St. Louis SO, et al

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-06-24

Works: William Schuman: Concerto for Violin; Leonard Bernstein: Serenade for Violin and Orchestra "after Plato's Symposium"
Performers: Holmes, Richard [Percussion]; McDuffie, Robert; Sant'Ambrogio, John
Conductors: Slatkin, Leonard
Ensemble: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

William Schuman (1910–1992) was born in the Bronx in New York City. He was both a composer and a music administrator. He took up his...continue...

Bear Essentials - American Classcics

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2005-05-24

Works: Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the common man; Concerto for Clarinet; Old American Songs, Set 1; John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine, fanfare for orchestra; Duke Ellington: Do nothin' till you hear ...
Performers: Boer, Harmen de; Graham, Susan; Hilton, Janet; McNaught, Graeme; Shelley, Howard; White, Willard [Bass Vocals]
Conductors: Dufallo, Richard; Mosko, Stephen; Järvi, Neeme; Hickox, Richard; Turovsky, Yuli; Jeanes, Major E. W.; Tortelier, Yan Pascal; Stephens, D.S.; ; Slatkin, Leonard; Dausgaard, Thomas; Bamert, Matthi...
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemb; Blues & Royals Band; Center City Brass Quintet; Cranwell Royal Air Force College Band; Detroit Symphony Orchestra; I Musici de Montréal; N...

Bernstein: Kaddish, Chichester Psalms, Missa Brevis /Slatkin

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2004-03-23

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Symphony no 3 ("Kaddish"), for soprano, speakers, choruses & orchestra; Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis, for alto, chorus & percussion (or 7 violins & percussion)
Performers: Baker, Simon; Benjafield, Richard; Brannick, Chris; Murray, Ann
Conductors: Slatkin, Leonard
Ensemble: BBC Singers; BBC Symphony Orchestra; London Oratory School Schola

This disc contains the premiere recordings of the extended Missa Brevis and Symphony No. 3 'Kaddish' with a new text, written and narrated by Bernstein's...continue...

Bernstein: Kaddish, Chichester Psalms, Missa Brevis /Slatkin

1 Super Audio CD / Chandos Records / 2004-03-23

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Symphony no 3 ("Kaddish"), for soprano, speakers, choruses & orchestra; Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis, for alto, chorus & percussion (or 7 violins & percussion)
Performers: Baker, Simon; Benjafield, Richard; Brannick, Chris; Carter, Roger; Castle, Andrew; Loosley, Clare; Murray, Ann; Richardson, Lindsay
Conductors: Slatkin, Leonard
Ensemble: BBC Singers; BBC Symphony Orchestra; London Oratory School Schola

"Here, all on a single generous disc, we get the best of Leonard Bernstein's choral works, beautifully performed by English forces under a renowned American...continue...

Bernstein: Symphony no 1 & 2 / Slatkin, BBC SO, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2001-09-25

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Symphony no 1 "Jeremiah"; Symphony no 2 "Age of Anxiety"; Divertimento for Orchestra
Performers: DeYoung, Michelle; Tocco, James [Piano]
Conductors: Slatkin, Leonard
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra