Picks of the Year: 2001

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 …

HANSON Symphony No. 1, “Nordic”. Pan and the Priest. Merry Mount (Orchestral Suite). Rhythmic Variations on Two Ancient Hymns

HANSON Symphony No. 1, “Nordic”. Pan and the Priest. Merry Mount (Orchestral Suite). Rhythmic Variations on Two Ancient Hymns – Kenneth Schermerhorn (cond); Nashville SO – NAXOS 8.559072 (60:56) Though Naxos’s American Classics series can be accused of pursuing a wildly unsystematic approach to repertoire, they have …