Barber: Concertos in RCA Red Seal's "Classics Library" series is a combination of selections drawn from two full-price discs taken from RCA's 1990s back catalog of St. Louis Symphony Orchestra recordings. Leonard Slatkin is an ace commander of the orchestra when it comes to the specialized business of supporting soloists. Although he has since ...
This disc is a compilation of recordings made by Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra between 1979 and 1982 for Telarc in what is described in the program notes as "Historic Soundstream Recordings." Historic? Recordings made in 1979 are now considered historic?It's true. Produced by Richard Woods and engineered by Jack Renner, ...
One of the two or three great Piston discs of the last decade of the twentieth century, Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra's 1991 release of Piston's two most popular works coupled with what may be his greatest symphony is an ideal place to start listening to the knottiest and gnarliest of the Great American Symphonists. The ...
While not the best single set of the music of Samuel Barber ever recorded -- Thomas Schippers' mid-'60s recording with the New York Philharmonic will hold that title from now unto perpetuity -- this two-disc set of recordings by Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony is still not to be missed by anyone who loves Barber's neo-Romantic music. ...
To some a brilliant tour de force of orchestration and to others an overplayed warhorse of little musical merit, Boléro is Ravel's most polarizing work. Yet it continues to appeal to listeners through its simple and direct plan -- an insistently repeated melody over a hypnotic rhythm in triple meter all building in one sustained crescendo for 16 ...
Hans Vonk and the St. Louis Symphony's recordings of Debussy's La Mer, Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales and La Valse plus Roussel's Suite No. 2 from Bacchus et Ariane are of generally good quality, but they pale somewhat in comparison to the best recordings of the repertoire. There is a taste of the sea in their La Mer, a feeling of the ...
Though Hans Vonk and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra are unlikely to make anyone's top 10 list of great conductor/orchestra tag teams, they succeeded in producing some of the best Brahms recordings on record. Their 1999 Beethoven First is bright, poised, and propulsive with the unique mixture of wit and warmth typical of the composer in his youth ...
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