Felix Slatkin Fantastic Strings [1964]

Liberty Records LST-7376 

Among the most consummate of studio musicians, Felix Slatkin achieved fame for violin performance, directing recordings of both standard symphonic fare and appealing arrangements of light music, and for being the leader of a string quartet fondly remembered as one of the finest of its time. Through his affiliation with Capitol Records, he and his wife, Eleanor Aller (cellist with Slatkin's Hollywood String Quartet), were afforded the economic base to pursue performance in areas notoriously unprofitable. Slatkin's death from a heart attack in 1963 caused genuine upset in the Hollywood/Los Angeles studio music world. He had become, by that time, all but irreplaceable.

The Fantastic Strings of Felix Slatkin Street Scene [1961]

Liberty Records Premier Series LSS 14008

Street Scene is another one of the deluxe Liberty Premier Series!

Slatkin was the conductor of the 20th Century Fox studio orchestra, and he recorded several albums for Liberty leading the "Fantastic Strings" at the height of the "Stereo Action" period. Like many studio musicians, he was also virtuoso performer in his own right. He recorded as a classical violinist, and he and his wife, cellist Eleanor Aller--also a studio regular for whom John Williams wrote a prominent part in the score of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"--founded a legendary American classical group, the Hollywood String Quartet.