| Other author/creator | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 author. |
| Other author/creator | Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931, author. |
| Other author/creator | Mabry, Sharon, singer. |
| Other author/creator | VanOsdale, Mary Kathryn, instrumentalist. |
| Other author/creator | LaMarchina, Anthony, instrumentalist. |
| Other author/creator | Wiesmeyer, Roger, instrumentalist. |
| Other author/creator | Slatkin, Leonard conductor. |
| Other author/creator | Scott, Barry, 1955-2020 narrator. |
| Included Work | Ives, Charles, 1874-1954. Lincoln, the great commoner (Choral work) |
| Included Work | Persichetti, Vincent, 1915-1987. Lincoln address. |
| Included Work | Harris, Roy, 1898-1979. Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight. |
| Included Work | Bacon, Ernst, 1898-1990. Ford's Theatre. |
| Included Work | Gould, Morton, 1913-1996. Lincoln legend. |
| Included Work | McKay, George Frederick, 1899-1970. To a liberator. |
| Included Work | Turok, Paul, 1929-2012. Variations on an American song. |
| Included Work | Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990. Lincoln portrait. |
| Other author/creator | Nashville Symphony, performer. |
| Other author/creator | Nashville Symphony. Chorus, performer. |
| Series |
American classics
American classics (Naxos (Sound recording label)) ^A590682
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| Contents |
CD 1: Lincoln, the great commoner / Charles Ives (3:39) -- A Lincoln address : op. 124 / Vincent Persichetti (13:22) -- Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight : for mezzo-soprano and piano trio / Roy Harris (14:10) -- Ford's Theatre : a few glimpses of Easter week, 1865. Preamble ; Walt Whitman and the dying soldier ; Passing troops ; The telegraph fugue : an etude for strings, with timpani ; Moonlight on the Savannah ; The theatre ; The River Queen ; Premonitions : a duett with a hall clock ; Pennsylvania Avenue, April 9, 1865 ; Good Friday, 1865 ; The long rain ; Conclusion / Ernst Bacon (29:43) -- CD 2: Lincoln legend / Morton Gould (16:36) -- To a liberator : (a Lincoln tribute). Evocation ; Choral scene ; March ; Declaration ; Epilogue / George Frederick McKay (11:18) -- Variations on an American song : aspects of Lincoln and liberty : op. 20/ Paul Turok (9:18) -- Lincoln portrait / Aaron Copland (14:31). |
| General note | Naxos: 8.559373-74 (on discs: 8.559373--8.559374). |
| General note | The 1st work for chorus and orchestra; the 2nd and 8th are for narrator and orchestra; the 3rd work is a cantata, for mezzo-soprano and piano trio; the 4th is a suite for orchestra; the 5th, 7th are for orchestra; the 6th is a symphonic poem, for chorus and orchestra. |
| General note | Words by Lincoln (2nd and 8th works) and Vachel Lindsay (3rd work). |
| General note | Compact discs. |
| General note | Program notes in English by Jane Vial Jaffe, biographical notes on the performers, and texts of the 2nd-3rd and 8th works (16 p. : ports.) inserted in container. |
| General note | Durations: 60:54, 51:43. |
| Performer |
In the 3rd work: Sharon Mabry, mezzo-soprano ; Mary Kathryn Van Osdale, violin ; Anthony LaMarchina, violoncello ; Roger Wiesmeyer, piano. In the remainder: Nashville Symphony ; Leonard Slatkin, conductor ; with Barry Scott, narrator (2nd, 8th works) ; Nashville Symphony Chorus (1st, 6th works). |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded July 1, 2007, and July 6 and September 27, 2008, Laura Turner Hall, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, Tennessee. |
| Genre/form | Art music. |
| Genre/form | Cantatas. |
| Genre/form | Music. |
| Genre/form | Musical settings. |
| Genre/form | Suites. |
| Genre/form | Symphonic poems. |
| Genre/form | Variations (Music) |
| Genre/form | Art music. |
| Genre/form | Cantatas. |
| Genre/form | Suites. |
| Genre/form | Symphonic poems. |
| Genre/form | Variations (Music) |
| LCCN | 2016619582 |
| UPC |
636943937327 |
| UPC |
3694393732 |
| Publisher number | 8.559373-74 (8.559373--8.559374) Naxos |
