Bernstein: Candide

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Catalogue No: NW80340
Label: New World
Length: 91 minutes

Grammy Awards

29th Awards (1986)

Best Opera Recording

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Bernstein: Overture

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New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra
John Mauceri

Bernstein: Fanfare / Life is Happiness Indeed

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John Lankston, David Eisler, Erie Mills, Scott Reeve, Maris Clement
New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra
John Mauceri

Bernstein: The Best of All Possible Worlds

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John Lankston, David Eisler, Erie Mills, Scott Reeve, Maris Clement
New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra
John Mauceri

Bernstein: Happy Instrumental / Oh, Happy We

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David Eisler, Erie Mills
New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra
John Mauceri

Bernstein: Candide Begins His Travels

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Bernstein: It Must Be So (Candide's Meditation)

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David Eisler
New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra
John Mauceri

Bernstein: Westphalian Fanfare, Chorale, Battle Music, and It Must Be So reprise

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Bernstein: Entrance of The Jew

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Bernstein: Glitter and be gay (from Candide)

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Erie Mills
New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra
John Mauceri

Bernstein: Earthquake Music / Dear Boy

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John Lankston
New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra
John Mauceri

Bernstein: Auto-da-Fe (What a Day): Parts I-III

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New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra
John Mauceri

Bernstein: Candide's Lament

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David Eisler
New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra
John Mauceri

Bernstein: You Were Dead, You Know (from Candide)

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David Eisler, Erie Mills
New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra
John Mauceri

Bernstein: Travel (to the stables) / I Am Easily Assimilated

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Joyce Castle
New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra
John Mauceri

Bernstein: Quartet Finale

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New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra
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Bernstein: Entr'acte

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Bernstein: Ballad of the New World

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Bernstein: My Love

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John Mauceri

Bernstein: Barcarolle

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Bernstein: Alleluia

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New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra
John Mauceri

Bernstein: Eldorado

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Bernstein: Sheep Song

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David Eisler, Maris Clement
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John Mauceri

Bernstein: Governor's Waltz

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Bernstein: Bon Voyage

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John Lankston
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John Mauceri

Bernstein: Quiet

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David Eisler, Maris Clement, Joyce Castle
New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra
John Mauceri

Bernstein: Constantinople / What's the Use

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John Lankston, James Billings, Jack Harrold
New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra
John Mauceri

Bernstein: Finale: Make Our Garden Grow

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John Lankston, David Eisler, Erie Mills, Scott Reeve, Maris Clement, Joyce Castle
New York City Opera Chorus and Orchestra
John Mauceri

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Leonard Bernstein's musical adaptation of Candide started life in 1956 as a musical comedy, became an operetta, was heard several times in concert form, and if not home to roost once and for all in this recorded version, is certainly being cultivated in the place many felt it belonged from the very beginning-the opera house.

By the time Candide opened at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York on December 1, 1956, this question was clarified somewhat by changing the billing from "a musical" to "a comic operetta." But the identity of the piece remained unclear. Audiences at the time did not embrace the show, and it closed after 73 performances.

Candide might have passed into history as a cult musical had not the Masterworks division of Columbia Records, then headed by David Oppenheim, decided to make an original-cast album. It was then-and is now-extremely rare for a major company to record a show that is not a bonafide hit. In the case of Candide, however, the score deserved attention, veteran cast-album producer Goddard Lieberson worked his usual magic, and the recording became successful. That album is responsible for keeping Candide alive.

Then, in 1973, Harold Prince and his collaborators finally made Candide a success. Prince discarded Lillian Hellman's book and hired Hugh Wheeler to go back to Voltaire and create a new libretto. He also hired John Mauceri as the musical director, and Patricia Birch to provide choreography. He also enlisted the help of Stephen Sondheim to make lyric adjustments. Together they were able to do what no one had been able to do before-blend all the elements into cohesive entertainment. The production ran on Broadway for 740 performances.

For those whose introduction to Candide had been by way of the original-cast recording, there were disappointments, as the orchestra was reduced to 13 players, and the music was subservient to the action. But Prince and his collaborators had proved that Candide could work in the theater, and it seemed inevitable that somehow, somewhere, Candide would find its way into a production where the musical values would once again be stressed. This production might even end up where some of those Boston critics in 1956 had suggested the piece belonged-in an opera house. Find its way it did, premiering at the New York City Opera on October 13, 1982, as "Candide-the opera house version."

Bernstein: Candide

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