Leonard Slatkin
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…Leonard Slatkin and the BBC Symphony Orchestra relish the considerable technical challenges posed by these transcriptions… those who enjoy their Bach as a full meat-and-two-veg course will... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2004, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Classical Album of the Year
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Special offer. American Classics - William Bolcom
RecommendedMeasha Brueggergosman, Ilona Davidson (soprano), Joan Morris (mezzo-soprano), Nathan Lee Graham (baritone), Thomas Young (tenor), Tommy Morgan (harmonica), Peter Ruth (harmonica, vocals)
University of Michigan School of Music Symphony Orchestra & Musical Society, Leonard Slatkin
This is a magnum opus that occupied Bolcom for 25 years, starting as early as 1956. He's drawn on a wide range of musical styles to parallel Blake's method of moving from sophisticated to almost... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2005, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 48th Awards (2005), Classical Album of the Year
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Special offer. Copland: Symphony No. 3 & Three Latin American Sketches
RecommendedDetroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
What counts…in this crisp and sensible performance is Slatkin’s concern with the Symphony’s gentler corners…[His] tight control of textures and the finesse of his Detroit musicians also help... —
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Orchestral Performance
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Barber: Orchestral Works
RecommendedJohn Browning (piano), Kyoto Takezawa (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello), Leonard Slatkin (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch, Leonard Slatkin
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Building a Library, June 2006, Budget Choice
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Grammy Awards, 7th Awards (1964), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 34th Awards (1991), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Special offer. Copland: Billy The Kid & Grohg
RecommendedDetroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
Copland’s deeply unsettling, Rite of Spring-like Grohg is a real discovery. The much more familiar Billy the Kid, meanwhile, is played with terrific swagger by Slatkin’s Detroit forces. —
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14, etc.
RecommendedKyoto Takezawa (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello) & John Browning (piano)
St Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
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Grammy Awards, 34th Awards (1991), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Special offer. Adams: Violin Concerto, Corigliano: Red Violin 'Chaconne'
RecommendedChloë Hanslip (violin) & Charles Owen (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
It's excellent sense to couple John Adams's Violin Concerto with John Corigliano's Chaconne based on his film music for The Red Violin. Both require bravura of the highest order… This is the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th August 2008
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