Griller / Myasnikov / Walker - Orchestral Music Volume One - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Westminster Abbey - Great Occasions [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/05/2011

Schelb / Mann / Baleff - Orchestral Music Volume One [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/19/2018

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 Inchalmost like a concerto for speaker and orchestra.Inch