Leonard Slatkin celebrated his 75th birthday in September 2019. Many of the selections in this program come from a concert given in his honor and are also a tribute to his remarkable musical family, both past and present. Historical recordings include Leonard’s cellist mother, Eleanor Aller, being conducted by Korngold in the Haydn concerto and a 1944 broadcast of his father, Felix, as a solo violinist in Brahms. Every piece here has a deeply personal connection for the family. For his composition The Raven, Leonard used Edgar Allan Poe’s poem in a work that is “almost like a concerto for speaker and orchestra.”
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Reviews
“…Slatkin’s Edgar Allan Poe setting The Raven is the highlight here – eerily unsettling almost throughout, it is nonetheless engaging…” ***
Jeremy Pound – BBC Music magazine (Brief Notes Section) – May 2022
“… Altogether, it’s an intriguing collection, and the recording of the modern pieces is of superlative quality.”
Edward Seckerson – Gramophone magazine – April 2022
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Remy Franck – Pizzicato.lu – 12 February 2022
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