Since you are interested in Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 & Symphonic Dances, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
LEROY ANDERSON
Anderson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2 (Incls 'Forgotten Dreams' & 'The Waltzing Cat') BBC Concert Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin (with David McCallum, trumpet) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "It goes without saying that the playing is excellent and the sound quality superb. The balance of the programme is well thought out and the sleeve-notes are informative." (MusicWeb June 2008) |
LEROY ANDERSON
Anderson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 4 (Incls 'Irish Suite' & 'Scottish Suite') BBC Concert Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin (with Kim Criswell, soprano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] "This fourth volume may seem to be mainly something of a gathering in of less well-known material and unusual, long-forgotten vocal arrangements of a few favourite pieces. Nevertheless they are delivered with such enthusiasm and joie de vivre, that... |
LEROY ANDERSON
Anderson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 5 (Incls 'Goldilocks') BBC Concert Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin (with Kim Criswell, soprano & William Dazeley, baritone) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "'Goldilocks' is a real discovery and here is given a really dashing and sympathetic performance that should win for an overlooked show plenty of deserved new friends." ClassicalSource.com |
LEROY ANDERSON
Anderson: Orchestral Music, Vol. 3 (Incls 'Plink, Plank, Plunk!' & 'The Syncopated Clock') BBC Concert Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin (with Catherine Moore, trumpet) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] "A great disc - and I am looking forward to what I imagine will be the fourth and final CD?" (MusicWeb July 2008) |
JOHN ADAMS / JOHN CORIGLIANO
Adams: Violin Concerto / Corigliano: The Red Violin: Chaconne Chloe Hanslip (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin, with Charles Owen (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2006 ] "(Chloe's) debut with Naxos is a formidable addition to the label's encyclopaedic series of American classics...Throughout this major 20th-century concerto, the clarity of the Naxos recording is immaculate, making the balance between soloist and... |
WILLIAM BOLCOM
Bolcom: Songs of Innocence and of Experience Christine Brewer (soprano) / Measha Brueggergosman (soprano) / Ilana Davidson (soprano) / Michigan University Choir / Leonard Slatkin (cond) [ Naxos American Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] New York Times: The Best Classical CDs of 2004 "William Bolcom worked on his settings of the 46 poems of William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" for 25 years. Leonard Slatkin conducts a gripping live performance of this ambitious... |
ALLA BORZOVA
Alla Borzova: Songs For Lada & To The New World Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ] Born in Minsk, Belarus, Alla Borzova has received numerous prestigious awards for her highly imaginative music since moving to the United States in 1993. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 / Vocalise (arr. for orchestra) Detroit Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] In the wake of his First Symphony's catastrophic première, Rachmaninov took a decade before commencing his Second, painstakingly revising it before conducting the triumphant première in 1908. Although haunted, like his First, by the Dies irae chant... |
CORIGLIANO
A Dylan Thomas Trilogy John Tessier (tenor) Thomas Allen (baritone) / Nashville Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] Fern Hill is a blithe poem, yet touched by darkness; time finally holds the poet "green and dying" … Poem in October begins in Thomas's seafront town: the poet, marking his birthday, climbs to a high hill, where he reflects on his youth and mulls his... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Abraham Lincoln Portraits Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos American Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2009 ] "Since only the Copland and Ives works are presently available on CD, this set is a must for collectors of American music, aside from patriotic associations. The Harris and the Persichetti works alone make it an essential purchase." (MusicWeb May 2009) |
JOAN TOWER
Made in America / Tambor / Concerto for Orchestra Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 13/Jun/2007 ] 2008 Grammy Award winner for 'Best Classical Album', 'Best Classical Contemporary Composition' and 'Best Orchestral Performance' |
RAVEL
Orchestral Works Vol. 1 (Incls 'Alborada del gracioso' & 'Boléro') Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] Ravel orchestrated his piano pieces Alborada del gracioso and Pavane pour une infante défunte to great effect; the former gains in suggestive colour, and the latter evokes nostalgic pathos. Another orchestrated work is the Menuet antique, which is... |
BERLIOZ
Symphonie fantastique / Le Corsaire Overture Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "one of its admirable qualities is the lucidity of playing that responds well to the particular palette of sonorities that Berlioz envisaged...the performance has its merits in precision and in some dramatic explosions" (Gramophone) |
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestrations compiled by L. Slatkin) [with Liszt-Piano Concerto no 1] Peng Peng (piano) / Nashville Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] An increasing number of recordings now feature orchestrations of Mussorgsky's Pictures other than Ravel's popular warhorse. Leonard Slatkin's eclectic selection, some more outlandish than others, invites us to bask in the high spirits and ingenuity... |
VARIOUS
The American Spirit: Roots and Transformations Various Artists [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] |