Conductor(s): Slatkin, Leonard
Label: Naxos
Series: American Classics
Genre: Choral - Secular; Orchestral; Vocal
Period: 20th Century; Contemporary
Catalogue No: 8.559373-74
Barcode: 636943937327
Release Date: 02/2009

Orchestral Music - IVES, C. / PERSICHETTI, V. / HARRIS, R. / BACON, E. / GOULD, M. / McKAY, G.F. / TUROK, P. (Lincoln Portraits) (Slatkin)

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), sixteenth President of the United States, has inspired many works of literature, art and music. To celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth, the Nashville Symphony, Leonard Slatkin and Naxos have selected eight important works by leading American composers, some setting Lincoln’s own immortal words, some words of poets inspired by him, others based on Lincoln’s life and ideals. Turok’s Variations on an American Song: Aspects of Lincoln and Liberty is based on a folk tune Lincoln used as a campaign song, Rosin the Bow.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Ives, Charles
Markham, Edwin - Lyricist
Nashville Symphony Chorus (Choir)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
1Lincoln, the Great Commoner03:39
Nashville Symphony Chorus (Choir)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
Persichetti, Vincent
Lincoln, Abraham - Lyricist
Scott, Barry (narrator)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
2A Lincoln Address, Op. 12413:22
Scott, Barry (narrator)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
Harris, Roy
Lindsay, Vachel - Lyricist
Mabry, Sharon (mezzo-soprano)
Osdale, Mary Kathryn van (violin)
LaMarchina, Anthony (cello)
Wiesmeyer, Roger (piano)
3Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight14:10
Mabry, Sharon (mezzo-soprano)
Osdale, Mary Kathryn van (violin)
LaMarchina, Anthony (cello)
Wiesmeyer, Roger (piano)
Bacon, Ernst
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
4I. Preamble01:43
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
5II. Walt Whitman and the Dying Soldier02:42
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
6III. Passing Troops02:42
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
7IV. The Telegraph Fugue (an Etude for Strings - with Timpani)05:07
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
8V. Moonlight on the Savannah02:03
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
9VI. The Theatre01:26
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
10VII. The River Queen02:26
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
11VIII. Premonitions (a duett with a hall clock)01:51
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
12IX. Pennsylvania Avenue, April 9, 186503:35
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
13X. Good Friday, 186503:15
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
14XI. The Long Rain01:17
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
15XII. Conclusion01:35
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
Disc 2
Gould, Morton
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
1Lincoln Legend16:36
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
McKay, George Frederick
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
Nashville Symphony Chorus (Choir)
2I. Evocation03:10
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
3II. Choral Scene02:49
Nashville Symphony Chorus (Choir)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
4III. March02:06
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
5IV. Declaration00:43
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
6V. Epilogue02:30
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
Turok, Paul
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
7Variations on an American Song: Aspects of Lincoln and Liberty, Op. 2009:18
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
Copland, Aaron
Lincoln, Abraham - Lyricist
Scott, Barry (narrator)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)
8Lincoln Portrait14:31
Scott, Barry (narrator)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
Slatkin, Leonard (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 01:52:36