Detroit So:Slatkin - Copland: Rodeo/ Dance Panels

24-bit, 96 kHz Stereo and Surround recordingsWhile Copland's hugely successful celebration of the American West, Rodeo, has become an American classic, Dance Panels is barely known despite working beautifully as a concert work. Based on popular Mexican melodies, the glittering, even exotic El Sal�n Mexico is one of Copland's most frequently performed works. Of his rhythmically complex Danz�n Cubano, inspired by a visit to a dance hall in Cuba, in which there were two orchestras playing at both ends, the composer himself wrote: I did not attempt to reproduce an authentic Cuban sound but felt free to add my own touches of displaced accents and unexpected silent beats.