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Steven Ledbetter

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Freeland author, liner notes author for classical releases and program annotator for the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1979 to 1997.

ALBUMS

Aaron Copland & Arthur Foote : Fenwick Smith / Jayne West, Members Of The Boston Chamber Music Society*

Chamber Music With Flute

2000, CD, Koch International Classics,

Fluffy Ruffle Girls - Women In Ragtime

1992, CD, Album, Northeastern Records,

George W. Chadwick*, The Portland String Quartet

String Quartets Nos. 4 & 5

1988, CD, Album, Northeastern Records,

Romantic/Chamber Music/String Ensemble

George W. Chadwick*, The Portland String Quartet

String Quartets No. 1 & 2

1988, CD, Album, Nat, Northeastern Records,

Charles Martin Loeffler, Charles Ives - The John Oliver Chorale And Orchestra

The Celestial Country

1987, CD, Northeastern Records,

Amy Beach*, Arthur Foote, Virginia Eskin

Music For Piano

1987, CD, Album, Northeastern Records,

Romantic/Impressionist

Aaron Copland & Arthur Foote - Fenwick Smith, With Members Of The Boston Chamber Music Society*

Chamber Music With Flute

1987, CD, Album, Northeastern Records

John Knowles Paine - Joseph Silverstein, Jules Eskin, Virginia Eskin

1986, CD, Album, Northeastern Records,

Romantic/Chamber Music/Sonata

APPEARANCES +

Bach Aria Soloists

Le Dolce Sirene

2023, CD, Reference Recordings

Dionne Jackson (3), Marija Stroke

Parisian Inspirations

2017, CD, Album, Bridge Records (4)

Concord Chamber Music Society

Brubeck/Gandolfi/Foss

2011, HDCD, Album, Reference Recordings,

Lee Actor – Pip Clarke*, Stuart Chafetz, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kirk Trevor

Violin Concerto / Symphony No. 2 / Timpani Concerto

2008, CD, Album, Albany Records,

Fauré*, Adaskin String Trio, Sally Pinkas

Quartets For Piano And Strings

2008, CD, Album, Dig, MSR Classics,

Gunther Schuller, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose

Journey Into Jazz

2008, CD, Album, BMOP/sound,

Madalyn Parnas, Cicely Parnas

2008, CD, Sheffield Lab

Mozart* - Felicity Lott, Marie McLaughlin, Nuccia Focile, Jerry Hadley, Alessandro Corbelli, Gilles Cachemaille, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Sir Charles Mackerras

Così Fan Tutte

Classical/Opera

Virgil Thomson & Charles Fussell – Emmanuel Feldman • Nashville Chamber Orchestra, Paul Gambill • New England String Ensemble, Susan Davenny Wyner • Joy Cline Phinney

Rider On The Plains: Cello Concertos by Virgil Thomson And Charles Fussell

2006, SACD, Hybrid, Albany Records,

Modern/Neo-Romantic/Contemporary

Gisèle Ben-Dor, Santa Barbara Symphony

The Soul Of Tango

2005, CD, Album, Delos

Morton Gould, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Schermerhorn

Fall River Legend

The Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio* - Beethoven*

The Complete Cycle Of Trios (Volume Two)

2003, 2xCD, Arabesque Recordings

The Kalichstein/Laredo/Robinson Trio* - Beethoven*

The Complete Cycle Of Trios (Volume One)

2003, 2xCD, Arabesque Recordings

Lukas Foss - Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose

2003, 2xCD, Album + Box, Sli, Chandos

2003, CD, Album, Fleur De Son Classics

Daniel Gregory Mason, Frederick Sheperd Converse*, Kevin Lawrence (5), Phillip Bush

2002, CD, New World Records

George Whitefield Chadwick, José Serebrier*, Czech State Philharmonic, Brno*

Aphrodite, etc.

2002, 2xHDCD, Album, Comp, Ltd, Reference Recordings,

Russell Sherman

Premieres And Commissions

2002, CD, Album, GM Recordings

John De Lancie, Philadelphia Orchestra's Former Solo Oboist

Romantic/Modern

George Whitefield Chadwick, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Schermerhorn

Orchestral Works

Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet

2001, CD, Album, Comp, Boston Records (2),

Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet

2001, CD, Album, Comp, Boston Records (2)

Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet

Musical Banquet

2001, CD, Album, Comp, Boston Records (2)

Mendelssohn* / Tchaikovsky*, Akiko Suwanai, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra*

Violin Concerto In E Minor / Violin Concerto In D Major

Stravinsky*, Tchaikovsky*, Lorin Maazel, The Cleveland Orchestra

The Rite Of Spring / Symphony No. 4

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Back To The Future (Selected 20th-Century Violin Works)

2000, 4xCD, Comp, Ltd, Deutsche Grammophon,

Modern/Neo-Classical/Post-Modern

Mozart* - Sir Charles Mackerras, Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Chorus*, Yelda Kodalli, Paul Groves, Désirée Rancatore, Peter Rose (3), Lynton Atkinson, Oliver Tobias

Die Entführung aus dem Serail = (The Abduction from the Seraglio, K.384)

2000, 2xCD, Album, Telarc Digital,

2000, CD, Boston Records (2)

Beethoven*, Benjamin Zander, Philharmonia Orchestra

Symphonies No. 5 & No. 7

1999, 2xCD, Telarc,

Yo-Yo Ma, Ton Koopman, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Baroque/Classical

Bach*, Murray Perahia

English Suites Nos. 2, 4 & 5

Carla Chrisfield, Alfred Genovese, David McGill, Peter Serkin

Musique Française

1998, CD, Album, Boston Records (2),

Leonard Bernstein

The Early Years IV

1997, CD, Comp, RCA Victor Gold Seal, BMG Classics

Beethoven* - The Cleveland Quartet

String Quartets, Op. 127 And Op. 131

Shostakovich* - Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt, Dmitri Kitaenko*

Ballet Suites 1 & 3 / Suites 1 & 2 For Jazz Orchestra

Haydn* - Leonard Slatkin, Philharmonia Orchestra

Symphonies No. 93 • No. 99 • No. 100 "Military" (The London Symphonies - Vol. 3)

Beethoven* - Cleveland Quartet*

String Quartets (Op. 132 In A Minor / Op. 135 In F Major)

Beethoven* - The Cleveland Quartet

Quartet, Op. 130 • Grosse Fuge, Op. 133

1996, CD, Album, Telarc,

Classical/Romantic

Lorin Maazel, Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks*, Richard Strauss

Sinfonia Domestica Op 53 · Tod Und Verklärung Op. 24

1996, CD, RCA Victor Red Seal,

Modern/Tone Poem/Orchestra

Bearer Of Music (Music By E.L. Bearer)

1996, CD, Albany Records,

George Whitefield Chadwick, José Serebrier*, Czech State Philharmonic, Brno*

Aphrodite, Suite Symphonique, Elegy

Beethoven* - The Cleveland Quartet

String Quartets Op. 18, Nos. 1-3

1995, CD, Album, Telarc,

David Del Tredici - Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, Oliver Knussen

An Alice Symphony

1995, CD, Composers Recordings Inc. (CRI)

Rachmaninoff* – Dmitri Alexeev, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra*, Yuri Temirkanov

Symphonic Dances • Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini • Aleko Overture

Mozart* - Felicity Lott, Marie McLaughlin, Nuccia Focile, Jerry Hadley, Alessandro Corbelli, Gilles Cachemaille, Sir Charles Mackerras, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Chorus

Cosi Fan Tutte - Highlights

Opera/Classical/Choral

Gilbert And Sullivan* - Orchestra* & Chorus Of The Welsh National Opera*, Sir Charles Mackerras

The Yeomen Of The Guard / Trial By Jury

Richard Strauss - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra* • Lorin Maazel

Lorin Maazel Conducts Richard Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra / Don Juan / Rosenkavalier Suite

Beethoven* - The Cleveland Quartet

String Quartets Op. 18, Nos. 4 & 5

Mozart* / Brahms* - Harold Wright, Boston Symphony Chamber Players

Clarinet Quintets

1994, CD, Album, Philips,

Classical/Romantic

The Boston Chamber Music Society* - Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky*, Arnold Schoenberg

Souvenir De Florence / Verklärte Nacht

1994, CD, Northeastern Records

William Mathias, Alberto Ginastera, Ann Hobson Pilot*, English Chamber Orchestra, Isaiah Jackson

William Mathias: Harp Concerto / Alberto Ginastera: Harp Concerto

1994, CD, Koch International Classics,

Beethoven*, The Cleveland Quartet

String Quartets Op. 74 "The Harp" / Op 95. "Quartetto Serioso"

Copland*, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin

Music For Films

Robert Beaser, Jan Opalach, Pamela Mia Paul, American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies

The Seven Deadly Sins / Chorale Variations / Piano Concerto

Berlioz* ; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa

Baker* · Rochberg* · Rorem* - Beaux Arts Trio

Leonard Bernstein

The Early Years II

1993, CD, Comp, Mono, RM, RCA Victor Gold Seal, BMG Classics,

Daniel Pinkham - Boston Cecilia*, Donald Teeters, Boston Composers String Quartet, William Buonocore, John Curtis

Christmas Cantata / Wedding Cantata / Advent Cantata / Introduction, Nocturne & Rondo / String Quartet

1993, CD, Album, Koch International Classics

John Knowles Paine, Denver Oldham

Selected Piano Works

1993, 2xCD, New World Records

Beethoven* - The Cleveland Quartet

String Quartets Op. 18, No. 6 And Op. 59, No. 1 "Razumovsky"

Beethoven* - Cleveland Quartet*

String Quartets, Op. 59, No. 2 And No. 3

Classical/Romantic

Tchaikovsky* - Lorin Maazel, The Cleveland Orchestra

Romeo And Juliet • Symphony No. 4

Quink Vocal Ensemble*

English Madrigals

Rolf Smedvig, Jahja Ling, Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Virtuoso Trumpet

Baroque/Classical

Class Brass - On The Edge

Brass Band/Classical

Gerard Schwarz Narrating & Conducting The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra

Musically Speaking... The Great Works: Vivaldi The Four Seasons

Ramon Salvatore

Music In The American Grain

1992, CD, Album, Cedille Records,

Leonard Bernstein

The Early Years

Anne-Sophie Mutter

John Williams (4) / The Boston Pops Orchestra*

Joy To The World

Handel*, Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman

Concerti Grossi Op. 6, Nos. 1-6

Beethoven*, John O'Conor

Piano Sonatas, Volume VI

1991, CD, Album, Telarc,

Béla Bartók • Norbert Moret - Anne-Sophie Mutter, Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra

Violinkonzert No. 2 / En Réve

Strauss*, André Previn, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra*

Don Juan / Don Quixote

Dvořák* - The Cleveland Quartet

Quartet No. 14 • Quartet No. 12 "American"

The Boston Chamber Music Society* / Johannes Brahms

Clarinet Trio Opus 114 & Clarinet Quintet Opus 115

1990, CD, Album, Northeastern Records

Mozart*, Josef Suk, Suk Chamber Orchestra

Sinfonia Concertante, K. 364 / Violin Concertos Nos. 2 & 3

1990, CD, Vanguard Classics,

Tchaikovsky*, David Zinman, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Symphony No. 4; Romeo & Juliet

1990, CD, Comp, Telarc Digital, Telarc

Beethoven*, John O'Conor

Piano Sonatas, Volume V

Schumann*, David Zinman, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

Symphony No. 1 "Spring" / Symphony No. 4

Sibelius*, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Yoel Levi

Symphonies No. 1 & No. 5

Copland*, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin

Symphony No. 3 - Music For A Great City

Schubert* - The Cleveland Quartet, James VanDemark, John O'Conor

Trout Quintet • Quartet In A Minor

George W. Chadwick* - The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra*, Karl Krueger

Symphony In F (No. 3) / Sinfonietta In D Major

Dvořák* - André Previn, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

Symphony No. 9 In E Minor, Op. 95 «From The New World» · Carnival Overture, Op. 92

Rolf Smedvig, Jahja Ling • Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Trumpet Concertos Of Haydn, Hummel, Torelli, Tartini & Bellini

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky - Cowell*, Hanson*, Mozart*, Shostakovich*, Strauss*, Tchaikovsky*

Salute To Symphony 1989 (The Boston Symphony Orchestra In Historic Performances Conducted By Serge Koussevitzky)

1989, CD, Comp, RM, Boston Symphony Orchestra, NYNEX, WCRB,

Classical/Romantic/Modern

Beethoven*, The Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi

Symphonies No. 1 & No. 2

Beethoven*, The Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi

Symphonies No. 4 & No. 8

John Knowles Paine, Zubin Mehta, New York Philharmonic

Symphony No. 1 / Overture To "As You Like It"

Beethoven*, John O'Conor

Piano Sonatas, Volume III

Dvořák* • André Previn, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

Symphony No. 8 / Scherzo Capriccioso, Op. 66 / Notturno In B Major, Op. 60

Beethoven* - John O'Conor

Piano Sonatas, Volume IV (Op. 2, Nos. 1-3)

Sofia Gubaidulina - Gidon Kremer, Boston Symphony Orchestra · Charles Dutoit

The Best Of Mozart: Selections From Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Symphonies No. 25, No. 28, No. 30, No. 40 & No. 41, Requiem And Others

Beethoven* - The Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi

Symphonies No. 5 & No. 7

1988, CD, Album, Telarc

Dvorak*, André Previn, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra

Symphony No. 7 In D Minor, Op. 70 / Overture "My Home", Op. 62

1988, CD, Album, Telarc,

Mendelssohn*, The Cleveland Quartet

Quartet No. 2 In E Minor • Octet In E-flat Minor

John Knowles Paine, New York Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta

Beethoven* - The Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi

Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale" & Leonore Overture No. 3

Tchaikovsky*, Christoph von Dohnányi, The Cleveland Orchestra

Symphony No. 6 «Pathetique» / Polonaise From Eugene Onegin

Frederick Moyer, Reger* • Walker* • Ravel* • Liszt* / Busoni*

Reger • Walker • Ravel • Liszt/Busoni

1986, CD, Album, GM Recordings,

Mozart*, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus*, Arlene Augér*, Delores Ziegler, Jerry Hadley, Tom Krause

Requiem, K. 626

Choral/Classical

George W. Chadwick* / Horatio Parker* - Albany Symphony Orchestra, Julius Hegyi

Symphony No. 2 / A Northern Ballad

Modern/Romantic

Beethoven* - The Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus*, Christoph von Dohnányi, Carol Vaness, Janice Taylor (2), Siegfried Jerusalem, Robert Lloyd

1985, CD DADC Austria,

Romantic/Classical

Olly Wilson / John Harbison, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa

Sinfonia / Symphony No. 1

Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus*

Choral Masterpieces

Schubert* - The Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi

Symphony No. 9 'The Great'

1985, CD Sanyo,

Beethoven*, Christoph von Dohnányi, The Cleveland Orchestra

Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"

Schubert* / Beethoven*, Christoph von Dohnányi, The Cleveland Orchestra

"Unfinished Symphony" / Symphony No. 8 In F

Mahler* - Leonard Slatkin, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra & Chorus*, Kathleen Battle, Maureen Forrester

Symphony No. 2 In C Minor, "Resurrection"

Rimsky-Korsakov*, Debussy*, Turina*, Eduardo Mata, Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34 / Ibéria / Orgía

Berlioz*, Lorin Maazel, The Cleveland Orchestra

Symphonie Fantastique

Copland* / Louis Lane Conducting Atlanta Symphony Orchestra

Appalachian Spring / Rodeo / Fanfare For The Common Man

1982, Vinyl Red Labels,

Four American Women

1981, LP, Northeastern Records

Tchaikovsky* - Lorin Maazel, The Cleveland Orchestra

Romeo & Juliet / Nutcracker Suite

Vivaldi* - Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Silverstein

The Four Seasons = 小沢の四季

Baroque/Concerto

Franz Schubert, Arnold Schoenberg / Jan DeGaetani, Gilbert Kalish

Songs / The Book Of The Hanging Gardens, Op. 15

1975, LP, Nonesuch

Hugo Wolf - Jan DeGaetani, Gilbert Kalish

Songs From The Spanisches Liederbuch

1974, LP, Nonesuch

Joachim Raff*, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Herrmann

Symphony No. 5 in E ("Lenore")

The London Ambrosian Singers* , John McCarthy / The Vienna Renaissance Players

The Triumph Of Maximilian I

1966, 2xLP, Album + Box, Nonesuch

Verdi* - Susan Dunn, Diane Curry, Jerry Hadley, Paul Plishka, Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus*

Requiem & Operatic Choruses

Gilbert & Sullivan — Sir Charles Mackerras, Orchestra* & Chorus Of The Welsh National Opera*

The Pirates Of Penzance

Operetta/Romantic

Peter Lieberson, The Boston Symphony Orchestra*, Seiji Ozawa, Peter Serkin

Quink Vocal Quintet

Renaissance Madrigals

Beethoven*, Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra

Symphony No. 5 In C Minor, Op. 67 / Egmont Overture, Op. 84

Murray Perahia, Bach*

The Complete English Suites 1 – 6