Browse: Orchestral, Bernstein (composer)
This page lists all classical by Leonard Bernstein (1918–90), in genre: Orchestral.
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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... — More…
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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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Bernstein: On The Waterfront
RecommendedOrchestral Works
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Lindberg
They’re completely on fire, chiselling hot rhythms out of the percussion, melting their lips on ritzy brass cascades. They also obviously relish the tenderness of those rare moments when Bernstein... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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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... — More…
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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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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... — More…
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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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Bernstein: Candide
RecommendedLeonardo Capalbo (Candide), Jane Archibald (Cunegonde), Anne Sofie von Otter (Old Lady), Thomas Allen (Dr Pangloss/Narrator)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Marin Alsop
In the title role, Leonardo Capalbo offers charm, delicacy and a touch of melancholy. Jane Archibald makes an amiable Cunegonde, though her showpiece ‘Glitter and be gay’ doesn’t sparkle enough.... — More…
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Record Review, 9th October 2021, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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American Classics - Leonard Bernstein
Philippe Quint (violin)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
…Leonard Bernstein's 1954 Serenade… contains some of the composer's most polished and coherent music. And it's done full justice by the formidable technique and shapely phrasing of the Russian-American... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2005, Editor's Choice
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Elîna Garanča: Habanera
RecommendedElîna Garanča (mezzo), Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Coro Filarmonico del Regio di Torino, Karel Mark Chichon
Garanča's is a medium-scale mezzo approach, elegant and devoid of ugly lurches into chest voice. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd August 2010
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2010, Editor's Choice
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One happy consequence of the Bolívar Orchestra's ascendancy is that Latin American repertoire previously known to connoisseurs has gained circulation… the one widely acknowledged masterpiece,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th May 2008
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, Disc of the Month
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He might be termed the last of the great individualists among the pianist fraternity, an artist whose credo stems from his teacher, the great virtuoso Josef Hofmann. It is a school of personal... — More…
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Quiet City
RecommendedAlison Balsom (trumpet), Tom Poster (piano), Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais), Britten Sinfonia, Scott Stroman
Revisiting the improvisatory practice of jazz icons with highly idiosyncratic techniques can fall flat, but Balsom and the Britten Sinfonia make it work. They are entirely idiomatic and wonderfully... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th August 2022
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