Aaron Copland:
01. El salón México [12'00]
02. - 08. Billy the Kid. Complete Ballet [21'20]
09. Danzón cubano [6'49]
10. - 12. Organ Symphony* [24'31]
Simon Preston- organ*; BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin
BBC Music Magazine BBCMM98 (recorded August 1996* & June 2000; CD issued October 2000)
(CD-rip; flacs, booklet, cover & inlay scans)
Recording venue: Royal Albert Hall Promenade Concert* and BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Recording engineers: Simon Hancock & Philip Burwell; Producer: Ann McKay
Both Slatkin and Preston have made commercial recordings of all of these works (together with the St Louis Symphony in the Organ Symphony) but this mix of concert and studio recordings offers an alternative view of the works. The studio recordings were made when Slatkin was appointed as chief conducor of the BBC Symphony; a position that he held until 2004.
This selection of Copland works offers a representative mix of his popular 'prairie' style as well as the more serious masterpiece of the Organ Symphony - here given a fervent account by conductor, orchestra and organist. It's also good that, as usual and as with his two commercial recordings, Slatkin gives us the complete Billy the Kid ballet score.
Download from MEGA.
01. El salón México [12'00]
02. - 08. Billy the Kid. Complete Ballet [21'20]
09. Danzón cubano [6'49]
10. - 12. Organ Symphony* [24'31]
Simon Preston- organ*; BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin
BBC Music Magazine BBCMM98 (recorded August 1996* & June 2000; CD issued October 2000)
(CD-rip; flacs, booklet, cover & inlay scans)
Recording venue: Royal Albert Hall Promenade Concert* and BBC Maida Vale Studios, London
Recording engineers: Simon Hancock & Philip Burwell; Producer: Ann McKay
Both Slatkin and Preston have made commercial recordings of all of these works (together with the St Louis Symphony in the Organ Symphony) but this mix of concert and studio recordings offers an alternative view of the works. The studio recordings were made when Slatkin was appointed as chief conducor of the BBC Symphony; a position that he held until 2004.
This selection of Copland works offers a representative mix of his popular 'prairie' style as well as the more serious masterpiece of the Organ Symphony - here given a fervent account by conductor, orchestra and organist. It's also good that, as usual and as with his two commercial recordings, Slatkin gives us the complete Billy the Kid ballet score.
Download from MEGA.
