Orchestral, Symphonies, Bernstein (composer)
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Bernstein: The 3 Symphonies - Casebound Deluxe
RecommendedOrchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano
Rana glitters away at the piano as the observer of inner turmoil in Anxiety; Josephine Barstow makes an excellent first of Bernstein’s often embarrassing Kaddish narration…but the lynchpin remains... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th August 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Winner - Symphonic Music
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Special offer. Bernstein: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
The performances are predictably excellent. In No. 1, the imposing first movement is presented with fervour, and the Copland-like central scherzo with lightness and precision; Jennifer Johnson... —
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Record Review, 14th January 2017, Recording of the Week
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Symphonic Recording (20th/21st-century music)
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After Hamelin's fantastic virtuosity in the outrageously difficult Godowsky Studies on Chopin'sEtudes (for which he won the Gramophone Instrumental Award 2000) these two works for piano and... —
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Bernstein conducts Bernstein
RecommendedMontserrat Caballé (soprano), Michael Wager (narrator)
Vienna Boys' Choir, Vienna Jeunesse Choir, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
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Building a Library, May 2004, First Choice
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Bernstein Conducts Bernstein: Kaddish Symphony & Chichester Psalms
RecommendedFelicia Montealegre (speaker), Jennie Tourel (mezzo-soprano), John Bogart (alto)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
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Grammy Awards, 7th Awards (1964), Classical Album of the Year
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Building A Library, July 2021, Recommended Recording
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Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 'The Age of Anxiety'
RecommendedKrystian Zimerman (piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
[Zimerman’s] is a very wise, very seasoned, poetic take on it and from his very first solo is possessed of a thoughtful ‘inwardness’. He finds the heartache and disillusionment between the notes... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th August 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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In life, Leonard Bernstein ran into criticism for programming his own concert music. Now he's gone, it seems we can't get enough of it – and in a variety of performance styles. Latterday champions... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2004, Editor's Choice
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Symphonic Psalms and Prayers
RecommendedBernstein • Schoenberg • Stravinsky • Zemlinsky
David Allsopp (countertenor)
Tenebrae, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Nigel Short
It’s good to hear Bernstein’s original design of the solo for a countertenor being respected for once. Allsopp makes much more of the words than most trebles, and there is an arresting immediacy... —
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Building A Library, July 2021, Also Recommended
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Maestro – Music by Leonard Bernstein
Victoria Ruggiero (piano), Nick Blaemire, Mallory Portnoy, Kate Eastman, Antonia Butler (vocalist), Michael Clarke (vocalist), Mark Brown (vocalist), Tony Yazbeck (vocalist), Clyde Alves (vocalist), Jay Armstrong Johnson (vocalist), Ruth Mense (piano), Dicky Tarrach (drumkit), Thissy Thiers (bassguitar),...
the soundtrack album is positively jam-packed and as colourful as Bernstein’s story...The album is a real snapshot of the f ilm, arranged in sequences of music and dialogue; the latter element... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Film Music/Score of the Year
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Special offer. Evgeny Svetlanov conducts Rachmaninov & Bernstein
Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
