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.
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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.