Picks of the Year: 2001

wswebmaster on November 22, 2018

This year’s choices offer some very economical and efficient means of updating and refining one’s collection of the finest 20th-century music in traditional styles. Leonard Slatkin has proven to be one of the most perceptive and sympathetic conductors of Samuel …

BARBER: Violin Concerto. Cello Sonata. Essays 1-3. Medea’s Dance of Vengeance. Summer Music. Adagio. Overture to “The School for Scandal”. Excursions. Canzone. Nocturne. Souvenirs (Excerpts).

wswebmaster on November 21, 2018

BARBER Violin Concerto. Cello Sonata. Essays for Orchestra: 1-3. Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance. Summer Music. Adagio for Strings. Overture to The School for Scandal .Excursions. Canzone for Flute and Piano. Nocturne. Souvenirs (excerpts) · Leonard Slatkin, cond; Saint Louis SO; Elmar Oliveira (vn); Israela Margalit (pn); …