Smith, Lawrence Leighton

Gould: Housewarming, etc /Smith, Louisville Orchestra, et al

2 CD / Albany Records / 2006-10-24

Works: Morton Gould: Housewarming for orchestra; American Symphonette no 2; Symphony of Spirituals; Flourishes and Galop for orchestra; Concerto for viola & orchestra; Columbia, broadsides for orchestra on ...
Performers: Glazer, Robert; Rapier, Leon
Conductors: Smith, Lawrence Leighton; Mester, Jorge; Gould, Morton
Ensemble: Louisville Orchestra

Polski nowoczesny / Louisville Orchestra

1 CD / First Edition / 2006-04-18

Works: Witold Lutoslawski: Fanfare for Louisville, for orchestra; Krzysztof Penderecki: De Natura Sonoris II, for orchestra; Stanislaw Skrowaczewski: Music at Night, for orchestra; Andrzej Panufnik: Nocturn...
Conductors: Smith, Lawrence Leighton; Mester, Jorge; Nelson, John; Whitney, Robert
Ensemble: Louisville Orchestra

Boris Blacher

1 CD / First Edition / 2005-05-17

Works: Boris Blacher: Variations on a Theme of Paganini for orchestra, Op. 26; Orchestral Ornament, Op. 44; Studie im Pianissimo, for orchestra, Op. 45; Orchester Fantasie
Conductors: Smith, Lawrence Leighton; Mester, Jorge; Whitney, Robert
Ensemble: ; Louisville Orchestra

Blacher's celebrated 'Orchestral Variations on a Theme by Paganini' joins three 1950s variable meter works, all incorporating a deft integration of his controlled variation of...continue...

Robert X. Rodriguez

1 CD / First Edition / 2005-02-22

Works: Robert X. Rodriguez: Oktoechos, concerto for 2 groups of soloists & orchestra; Favola Boccaccesca, symphonic poem for orchestra; The Song of Songs (Shir Hashirim), theater piece for soprano, narrator...
Performers: Chapo, Eliot; Curchack, Fred; Davies, Marion; Giangiulio, Richard; Girko, Stephen; Gubrud, Irene; Howard, Douglas; Kitzman, John; Mouledouos, Alfred; Roberts, Wilfred; Rodriguez, Robert X. [Composer]...
Conductors: Smith, Lawrence Leighton; Rodriguez, Robert X.; Mata, Eduardo
Ensemble: Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Louisville Orchestra; Voices of Change

Note: This title is rare and is considered a collector’s item. It is priced according to its common market value. If the record label that...continue...
Personnel: Marion Davies (cello); Wilfred Roberts (bassoon); John Kitzman (trombone); Al Mouledous (piano)....continue...

World Premiere Collection - Corigliano, Cowell, et al

1 CD / First Edition / 2005-02-22

Works: Henry Cowell: Hymn and Fuguing Tune no 3 for orchestra, HC 660; Lou Harrison: Suite for Symphonic Strings, for string orchestra; Alan Hovhaness: Symphony no 15, Op. 199 "Silver Pilgrimage"; Luigi Dal...
Performers: Bowman, Peter; Fulkerson, Gregory; Harrell, Lynn; Larsen, Susan; Lowenthal, Jerome; Mitchell, Leona; Owen, Benjamin; Tocco, James [Piano]
Conductors: Mester, Jorge; Whitney, Robert; Smith, Lawrence Leighton; Endo, Akira; Gilbert, David; Harth, Sidney; Zinman, David; Slatkin, Leonard; Comissiona, Sergiu; Harbison, John; Previn, Andre

Specially priced, this essential 75-minute all-world premiere collection features 17 legendary composers of 20th century music. This virtual 'who's who' celebration of major modern world...continue...

William Bolcom

1 CD / First Edition / 2005-02-22

Works: William Bolcom: Symphony no 1; Symphony no 2; Seattle Slew Suite for orchestra
Conductors: Smith, Lawrence Leighton
Ensemble: The Louisville Orchestra

This First Edition all-world premiere collections features a stylistic broad range of the composer's works that begins with his youthful Symphony No. 1, a harbinger...continue...

Joan Tower

1 CD / First Edition / 2004-04-01

Works: Joan Tower: Silver Ladders, for orchestra; Island Prelude for oboe & string orchestra; Island Rhythms, for orchestra; Music for cello & orchestra; Sequoia, for orchestra
Performers: Bowman, Peter; Harrell, Lynn
Conductors: Slatkin, Leonard; Smith, Lawrence Leighton
Ensemble: Louisville Orchestra; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

"Tower invokes Debussy, Stravinsky, Lutoslawski, 80s minimalists, and others. She certainly writes well for the orchestra, with colorful blends; it's easy to see why Leonard...continue...

Paul Hindemith

1 CD / First Edition / 2004-01-01

Works: Paul Hindemith: Kammermusik no 2, for piano & 12 instruments, Op. 36/1; Konzertmusik for viola & large chamber orchestra, Op. 48; Piano Concerto
Performers: Hillyer, Raphael; Luvisi, Lee
Conductors: Mester, Jorge; Smith, Lawrence Leighton
Ensemble: Louisville Orchestra

Roy Harris

1 CD / First Edition / 2003-04-01

Works: Roy Harris: Kentucky Spring; Concerto for Violin & orchestra; Symphony no 5
Performers: Fulkerson, Gregory
Conductors: Whitney, Robert; Smith, Lawrence Leighton
Ensemble: Louisville Orchestra

Consoli: Pensieri Sospesi, etc / Onix, Louisville Symphony

1 CD / CRI / 1998-11-17

Works: Marc-Antonio Consoli: Odefonia for orchestra; Pensieri Sospesi; Afterimages
Conductors: Schuller, Gunther; Prieto, Carlos Miguel; Smith, Lawrence Leighton

"If I were to choose some points of comparison, I would say that [Consoli's] aesthetic is closest to those American composers who have taken the...continue...

The Essential Clarinet / Richard Stoltzman

1 CD / RCA Records / 1992-10-27

Works: Aaron Copland: Concerto for Clarinet; Igor Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto; Leonard Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs; John Corigliano: Concerto for clarinet and orchestra
Performers: Stoltzman, Richard [Clarinet]
Conductors: Smith, Lawrence Leighton; Stoltzman, Richard
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra; Woody Herman & His Thundering Herd