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Various: Abraham Lincoln Portraits (Naxos Audio CD 2-CD set)

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Variations On America (Naxos Audio CD) - Ives, Charles

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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), sixteenth President of the United States, has inspired many works of literature, art and music.

To celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth, the Nashville Symphony, Leonard Slatkin and Naxos have selected eight important works by leading American composers, some setting Lincoln’s own immortal words, some words of poets inspired by him, others based on Lincoln’s life and ideals.

Turok’s Variations on an American Song: Aspects of Lincoln and Liberty is based on a folk tune Lincoln used as a campaign song, Rosin the Bow.

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CD 1
Charles IVES (1874-1954): Lincoln, the Great Commoner†
Vincent PERSICHETTI (1915-1987): A Lincoln Address*
Roy HARRIS (1898-1979): Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (for mezzo-soprano and piano trio)**
Ernst BACON (1898-1990): Ford’s Theatre: A Few Glimpses of Easter Week
CD 2
Morton GOULD (1913-1996): Lincoln Legend
George Frederick MCKAY (1899-1970): To a Liberator (A Lincoln Tribute)†
Paul TUROK (b. 1929): Variations on an American Song: Aspects of Lincoln and Liberty
Aaron COPLAND (1900-1990): Lincoln Portrait*
Barry Scott (narrator)*
Sharon Mabry (mezzo-soprano)**
Mary Kathryn Van Osdale (violin)**
Anthony LaMarchina (cello)**
Roger Wiesmeyer (piano)**
Nashville Symphony Chorus†, George Mabry (Chorus director)
Nashville Symphony, Leonard Slatkin