ABRAHAM LINCOLN PORTRAITS: IVES Lincoln, the Great Commoner. PERSICHETTI A Lincoln Address. HARRIS Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight. BACON Ford’s Theatre. GOULD Lincoln Legend. McKAY To a Liberator. TUROK Variations on an American Song. COPLAND A Lincoln Portrait • NAXOS 8.559373-74 (2CDs) Leonard Slatkin conducts Nashville SO and Ch. Read the CD review.

MORAN There Appeared an Angel. Cortege. Elegy for a Young King. Mantra. Obrigado. Stirling: It’s Raining Cats and Dogs. KBOCO. Processional • Alexander Hermann, cond; Chrismos Vocal Ens; Grassauer Wind Ens; Robert Ridgell (org); Latvian Radio Ch; Dan Moore, cond; Iowa Perc • INNOVA 714. Read the CD review.

SCHUMAN New England Triptych. American Hymn. George Washington Bridge. Circus Overture (trans. D. Owen). Prelude for a Great Occasion • KLAVIER K-11155. Jack Stamp conducts Keystone Wind Ens. Read the CD review.

BOOK REVIEW: THE GREAT AMERICAN SYMPHONY: Music, the Depression, and War. By Nicholas Tawa. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2009. Read the book review.

TOUCH: The Toccata Project • Philip Amalong (pn) PERSICHETTI, MENOTTI, HOIBY, DIEMER, HARRIS, ANTHEIL, ROREM, I. FINE, SOWERBY, L. LIEBERMANN, LEES, M. L. LEHMAN, MUCZYNSKI, R. LEWENTHAL, RIEGGER, BASTIEN. • ALBANY TROY1142. Read the CD review.

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HOIBY The Tempest • Purchase College Performance. ALBANY TROY-1106/1107 (2 CDs); A Pocket of Time (21 Songs and a Duet) Julia Faulkner (Sop), Andrew Garland (bar) and Lee Hoiby (pn) • NAXOS 8.559375; Songs of Lee Hoiby • Ursula Kleinecke-Boyer (sop), Maria Perez-Goodman (pn) • ALBANY TROY-1102. Read the CD review.