Abraham Lincoln Fans - new on Naxos!

[Lance]

~ New Release ~

ABRAHAM LINCOLN PORTRAITS
Music of Ives, Persichetti, Harris, Bacon, M. Gould, McKay, Turok, Copland

CD 1
•Ives: Lincoln, the Great Commoner *
•Persichetti: A Lincoln Address **
•Harris: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight ***
•Backon: Ford Theatre: A Few Glimpses of Easter Week, 1865

CD 2
•Morton Gould: Lincoln Legend
•McKay: To a Liberator (A Lincoln Tribute) *
•Turok: Variations on an American Song: Aspects of Lincoln and Liberty
•Copland: A Lincoln Portrait **

*Nashville Symphony Chorus, George Mabry, choral director
**Barry Scott, narrator
***Sharon Mabry, mezzo-soprano; Mary Kathryn Van Osdale, violin;
Anthony LaMarchina, cello; Roger Wiesmeyer, piano
Nashville Symphony
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
[Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, July 2007, July and September 2008]
Naxos [2 CDs], 8.559373-74, 60:54, 51:43, DDD

[Ralph]

I'm looking for this tomorrow. I planned, anyway, to play Copland's "A Lincoln Portrait" in my Legal History seminar next Wednesday before we begin discussing Lincoln and the Constitution.

[lmpower]

The Redlands Symphony recently celebrated the Lincoln bicentennial with a concert of music Lincoln loved. The program was: Rossini overture to William Tell, Rossini aria from Barber of Seville, Verdi La Traviata Introduzione, Verdi scene and aria from La Traviata, Herold overture to Zampa, Wagner grand march from Tannhauser, Gottschalk andante from a night in the tropics, Wallace recitative and ballade from Maritana, Grafulla Washington gray, amazing grace and America the beautiful. The program was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

[Lance]

This sounds like a diversified program, indeed! President Lincoln had some good tastes in music. What's interesting to ponder is that WE have all listened to the very same music Lincoln did. There is something comforting in that thought, eh? Maybe it's just that we shared the same music!

The Redlands Symphony recently celebrated the Lincoln bicentennial with a concert of music Lincoln loved. The program was: Rossini overture to William Tell, Rossini aria from Barber of Seville, Verdi La Traviata Introduzione, Verdi scene and aria from La Traviata, Herold overture to Zampa, Wagner grand march from Tannhauser, Gottschalk andante from a night in the tropics, Wallace recitative and ballade from Maritana, Grafulla Washington gray, amazing grace and America the beautiful. The program was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

[lmpower]

I have listened to some of Lincoln's favorites, but I had never even heard of Maritana by Wallace.

[Donaldopato]

This Naxos disc is quite good. Interesting to finally hear Persichetti's "A Lincoln Address" after it was banned from Nixon's Inauguration as being to anti war. Quite well done for a narrator/orchestra piece, a genre which often does not come off well.

[Lance]

W. Vincent Wallace's Maritana is a lovely opera. Joan Sutherland made a wonderful recording of an excerpt called "Scenes that are Brightest." Talk about fabulous Victorian music, this is it!

I have listened to some of Lincoln's favorites, but I had never even heard of Maritana by Wallace.