Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony

In 1979, the conductor Leonard Slatkin began a 17-year tenure as music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. During those years, Slatkin and that orchestra issued a series of recordings that raised the St. Louis ensemble to the ranks of one of the ten best orchestras in the U.S. Due to the decline in classical recording, that feat may not be duplicated in a very long time. We'll sample some of their recordings.