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Liszt: Piano Concerto no 1, etc; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Slatkin, Peng, Nashville SO and Chorus

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-09-30

Works: Franz Liszt: Concerto for Piano no 1 in E flat major, S 124; Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; John Stafford Smith: The Star-spangled Banner
Performers: Peng Peng
Conductors: Slatkin, Leonard
Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

An increasing number of recordings now feature orchestrations of Mussorgsky's 'Pictures' other than Ravel's popular warhorse. Leonard Slatkin's eclectic selection, some more outlandish than others,...continue...

This is My Country / Price, Horne, Fiedler, Boston Pops

1 CD / RCA Records / 1993-07-13

Works: Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the common man; Rodeo; Ferde Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite; Samuel Augustus Ward: America the Beautiful; William Steffe: Battle Hymn of the Republic; Traditional: Shenan...
Performers: Horne, Marilyn; Price, Leontyne
Conductors: Ormandy, Eugene; Fiedler, Arthur; Gerhardt, Charles; Shaw, Robert; Slatkin, Leonard; Conlon, James
Ensemble: Boston Pops; Collegiate Chorale; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; National Philharmonic Orchestra; Philadelphia Orchestra; Robert Shaw Chorale; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

The American Album / Slatkin, St Louis Symphony Orchestra

1 CD / RCA Records / 1991-03-12

Works: Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the common man; Rodeo; Morton Gould: American Salute; American Symphonette no 2; John Philip Sousa: Washington Post; Stars and Stripes Forever; William Schuman: New England...
Performers: Bodnar, Nina; Liberman, Barbara; Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra; Slaughter, Susan
Conductors: Slatkin, Leonard
Ensemble: ; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Personnel: Nina Bodnar (violin); Susan Slaughter (trumpet); Barbara Liberman (celesta).

Recording information: Powell Symphony Hall; St.Louis.

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