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Special offer. Bernstein: Complete Solo Works for Piano

Andrew Cooperstock (piano)

Hot rhythms fly in the ingenious and taxing transcription of Copland’s El Salon Mexico. The 1960 Bridal Suite, a wedding gift for his friends and colleagues Phyllis Newman and Adolph Green,...

Special offer. Bernstein: Complete Solo Works for Piano

Andrew Cooperstock (piano)

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Hot rhythms fly in the ingenious and taxing transcription of Copland’s El Salon Mexico. The 1960 Bridal Suite, a wedding gift for his friends and colleagues Phyllis Newman and Adolph Green,...

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In celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s centenary (1918-2018), this recording features the composer’s complete solo piano works, plus, as a special bonus, the witty and charming Bridal Suite for piano four-hands, heard here in its first complete recording. In addition to the better known Anniversaries, Sonata for the Piano, and Touches, Andrew Cooperstock has included Leonard Bernstein’s very first published work, the highly effective transcription of Aaron Copland’s orchestral tone poem El Salón México, together with the Four Sabras, Non troppo presto, and Music for the Dance, No. II. The recording encompasses music from the composer's teenage years through his last piano composition, Touches, and includes music Bernstein dedicated to friends and colleagues including Lukas Foss, Sergei Koussevitzky, William Schuman, William Kapell, and Stephen Sondheim. The distinguished pianist Andrew Cooperstock is Professor of Piano at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Contents and tracklist

No. 1, For Aaron Copland
Track length1:14
No. 2, For My Sister, Shirley
Track length1:18
No. 3, In Memoriam, Alfred Eisner
Track length2:05
No. 4, For Paul Bowles
Track length1:22
No. 5, In Memoriam, Nathalie Koussevitzky
Track length1:33
No. 6, For Sergei Koussevitzky
Track length1:40
No. 7, For William Schuman
Track length0:51
No. 1, For Felicia Montealegre
Track length2:24
No. 2, For Johnny Mehegan
Track length0:41
No. 3, For David Diamond
Track length2:04
No. 4, For Helen Coates
Track length1:20
No. 1, For Elizabeth Rudolf
Track length1:10
No. 2, For Lukas Foss
Track length1:43
No. 3, For Elizabeth B. Ehrman
Track length0:47
No. 4, For Sandy Gellhorn
Track length1:35
No. 5, For Susanna Kyle
Track length1:40
No. 1, For Shirley Gabis Rhoads Perle
Track length1:26
No. 2, In Memoriam, William Kapell
Track length0:27
No. 3, For Stephen Sondheim
Track length1:26
No. 4, For Craig Urquhart
Track length1:17
No. 5, For Leo Smit
Track length0:28
No. 6, For My Daughter, Nina
Track length2:20
No. 7, In Memoriam, Helen Coates
Track length2:14
No. 8, In Memoriam, Goddard Lieberson
Track length1:09
No. 9, For Jessica Fleischmann
Track length1:52
No. 10, In Memoriam, Constance Hope
Track length2:20
No. 11, For Felicia, on Our 28th Birthday (And Her 52nd)
Track length1:25
No. 12, For Aaron Stern
Track length2:11
No. 13, In Memoriam, Ellen Goetz
Track length1:53
I. Presto
Track length5:24
II. Largo - III. Moderato
Track length11:15
I. Moderato
Track length1:26
II. Waltz Time
Track length1:18
III. Allegro non troppo, with Force
Track length1:59
No. 1, Ilana, the Dreamer
Track length1:13
No. 2, Idele, the Chassidele
Track length2:30
No. 3, Yosi, the Jokester
Track length1:04
No. 4, Dina, the Tomboy Who Weeps Alone
Track length1:12
I. Prelude on Familiar Tunes
Track length1:46
II. Love Song
Track length1:31
III. Chaplinesque
Track length0:37
IV. Chaplinade
Track length0:57
V. Interlude (Bell, Book & Rabbi)
Track length1:35
VI. The First Waltz
Track length1:00
VII. Cha-Cha-Cha
Track length0:36
VIII. Hora
Track length0:39
IX. Modern Music (Argument)
Track length0:30
X. Old Music (Reconciliation)
Track length0:51
XI. Magyar Lullaby
Track length0:40

Awards and reviews

December 2017

Hot rhythms fly in the ingenious and taxing transcription of Copland’s El Salon Mexico. The 1960 Bridal Suite, a wedding gift for his friends and colleagues Phyllis Newman and Adolph Green, is a miniature triumph of whimsical dexterity. Cooperstone’s crisp dispatch is pleasurable too, even though the recording at times brings him close to hammering.

October 2017

Superbly played by Andrew Cooperstock and with Bridge's usual fine production standards this is a very fine collection of rarely heard works by one of the 20th century's key musical figures...invest with confidence and enjoy at leisure.
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