London Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Barbara Hendricks, soprano
Repertoire
Samuel Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Plus other works performed by Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony
Leonard Slatkin and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra’s 1988 disc of Barber’s six best-known single-movement orchestral works with two of the Essays for Orchestra dropped to make room for Slatkin and the Saint Louis’ 1986 recording of the Violin Concerto with Elmar Oliveira, and Barbara Hendricks and Michael Tilson Thomas’s 1994 recording of Knoxville: Summer 1915.
Tilson Thomas's Adagio is a stranger to glitz instead going down the track of dignity and tender feeling.MusicWeb International