Leonard Slatkin - L'enfant Et Les Sortileges - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Immensely influential, the remarkable Symphonie fantastique was composed while Hector Berlioz was suffering an intense and unreciprocated passion for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. It's autobiographical tale describes a young musician's opium-poisoned nightmares of jealous despair and fatal justice following the murder of his beloved. Berlioz wrote a second movement cornet solo into a subsequent revision of the score, here included as an optional extra. He wed his sweetheart actress but, recuperating in Nice, wrote Le corsaire after the final breakup of their marriage. Internationally renowned conductor Leonard Slatkin began his tenure as Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in the 2008-2009 season. He was recently named Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lyon, beginning with the 2011-2012 season. He completed his twelfth and final season as Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in June 2008, and finished his three-year commitment as Music Advisor to the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in June 2009. Slatkin continues as Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Album Tracks 1. Le Corsaire, Op. 21 2. Reveries Largo - Passions Allegro Agitato E Appassionato Assai 3. Un Bal (Valse) Allegro Non Troppo 4. Scene Aux Champs Adagio 5. Marche Au Supplice Allegretto Non Troppo 6. Songe D'une Nuit Du Sabbat Larghetto - Allegro 7. Dies Irae 8. Ronde Du Sabbat 9. Dies Irae Et Ronde Du Sabbat 10. Un Bal (Valse) Allegro Non Troppo

Leroy Anderson etched out his own unique place in American music - a composer rigorously trained in the classical tradition whose records topped the pop charts, a meticulous arranger of music whose own melodies were crafted with inventive precision. Album Tracks 1. Harvard Sketches (Lowell House Bel S - Freshman in Harvard Square - Wi 2. Melody on 2 Notes 3. Mother's Whistler 4. The Penny-Whistle Song 5. The Phantom Regiment 6. Plink, Plank, Plunk! 7. Promenade 8. Sandpaper Ballet 9. Sarabande 10. Serenata 11. Old MacDonald Had a Farm 12. The Music Man 76 Trombones 13. Sleigh Ride 14. Suite of Carols 15. Of Thee I Sing Wintergreen for PR Sident 16. The Typewriter 17. A Trumpeter's Lullaby 18. The Syncopated Clock

Leroy Anderson etched out his own unique place in American music - a composer rigorously trained in the classical tradition whose records topped the pop charts, a meticulous arranger of music whose own melodies were crafted with inventive precision. Album Tracks 1. Whistling Kettle