Bernstein: Facsimile - Choreographic essay for orchestra

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Leonard Bernstein

Bernstein:

Candide - Overture

Facsimile - Choreographic essay for orchestra

Dance Episodes (3) from ‘On The Town'

West Side Story: Symphonic Dances

Prelude, Fugue & Riffs for Solo Clarinet and Jazz Ensemble

Seena (from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue)

A Simple Song (from Mass)

Orchestra of St. Luke's, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi, Leonard Slatkin, Simon Rattle & Dennis Russell Davies

Like Gershwin before him, Bernstein (1918-1990) composed music for the concert hall and for musical theatre. Through the Broadway musical West Side Story his name reached a far larger audience than that of virtually every other modern American composer, with the possible exception of Gershwin himself.The pieces on this disc illustrate Bernstein's work in the theatre. Four of the works, the dance episodes from On the Town, the overture to Candide, the suite from West Side Story and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, were written for the Broadway stage; Facsimile and On the Town are both ballet scores, Mass is a theatre piece for singers, players and dancers and what should have been a purely jazz piece, the Prelude, Fugue and Riffs, ended up being incorporated into the musical comedy Wonderful Town.

EMI American Classics - 2066262

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Bernstein:

Prelude, Fugue & Riffs for Solo Clarinet and Jazz Ensemble

Facsimile - Choreographic essay for orchestra

West Side Story: Symphonic Dances

(original version)

Divertimento for Orchestra

Sabine Meyer (clarinet) & Wayne Marshall (piano)

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi

Virgin - The Classics - 3633012

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Bernstein:

Serenade (after Plato's 'Symposium')

Facsimile - Choreographic essay for orchestra

Divertimento for Orchestra

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 violinist Philippe Quint, with outstanding support from violinist-turned-conductor Marin Alsop and her ever-improving Bournemouth orchestra.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2005 *****

“This is even better than Marin Alsop's previous Bernstein collection… combining a more generous playing-time with top-notch sound, lively as well as spacious. …Alsop… has always sprung Bernstein's rhythms with a real feeling for the idiom while tending to eschew the element of rhetorical overkill familiar from his own performances. Here the element of caution translates into elegance.” Gramophone Magazine, December 2005

“A splendid tribute to the diverse genius of Leonard Bernstein… All of this is beautifully captured by Naxos’s recording.” The Telegraph

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