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Leonard Bernstein: Historic Broadcasts 1946-1961 | Music and Arts WHRA6048

Leonard Bernstein: Historic Broadcasts 1946-1961

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Label: Music and Arts

Cat No: WHRA6048

Barcode: 5425008378923

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 12

Release Date: 8th April 2013

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About

When it was announced that Leonard Bernstein was the become the new conductor of the New York Philharmonic in November 1957, Claudia Cassidy in the Chicago Daily Tribune wrote that it was “no great surprise” but injected a note of caution: “wish him luck, because no one needs it more than the musical director of a symphony orchestra.” It turned out to be an inspired appointment.

This set demonstrates what it was about his music making and in his personality that led the New York Philharmonic’s directors to choose him. It includes extensive recorded documentation of Bernstein’s career up to the time of his nomination in New York, mostly in live performances and rehearsal segments, working on music ranging from Mozart to Messiaen.

Bernstein’s work after his appointment to the NYP is represented in this set by performances of American music given as part of his “Survey of American Music” in the 1958–9 season (Fine, Harris and Piston), along with Copland in 1957 and Diamond in 1961; the 1959 recording sessions for two of his favourite twentieth-century classics (Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony and Copland’s Billy the Kid) which show conductor and orchestra at their most efficient and effective; and hitherto unpublished live performances of music by Bartók, Beethoven, Chávez and Mahler.

Contents:
CD 1:
67:05
Schumann: Symphony no.2 in C
23 March 1946, Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall, Boston

Shostakovich: Symphony no.7 in C (rehearsal)
22 Dec. 1948, Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall, Boston

CD 2: 69:35
Shostakovich: Symphony no.7 in C
22 Dec. 1948, Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall, Boston

CD 3: 78:44
Mahler: Symphony no.2 (rehearsal)
21 Nov. 1949, Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall, Boston

Mozart: Piano Concerto no.15, K450 (rehearsal); Leonard Bernstein (piano)
21 Nov. 1949, Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall, Boston

Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie (rehearsal)
28 Nov. 1949, Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall, Boston

CD 4: 79:53
Mahler:
Symphony No.2 in c, “Resurrection”
Adele Addison (soprano); Nan Merriman (mezzo-soprano)
25 Nov. 1949, Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall, Boston

CD 5: 73:16
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G (rehearsal), Leonard Bernstein (piano)
5 Dec. 1949, Boston Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall, Boston

Copland: Preamble for a Solemn Occasion; Laurence Olivier (narrator) [premiere]
10 Dec. 1949, Boston Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, New York

Shostakovich arr. Langendoen: United Nations on the March
Boston Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, New York, 10 Dec. 1949

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G; Leonard Bernstein (piano)
10 Dec. 1949, Boston Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, New York

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in d, “Choral”: Finale excerpt
With Collegiate Chorale & Irma Gonzales (soprano), Nan Merriman (mezzo-soprano), Raoul Jobin (tenor), Nicola Moscona (bass)
10 Dec. 1949, Boston Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, New York

CD 6: 64:49
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no.1 in C, Op.15; Bernstein (piano), (19 Feb. 1950, New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall, New York)

CD 7:
66:07
Bernstein: Symphony no.2, The Age of Anxiety; Lukas Foss (piano)
26 Feb. 1950, New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall, New York

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
18 Feb. 1951, New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall, New York

CD 8: 67:02
Weill: Three-Penny Opera [Blitzstein version]
Marc Blitzstein (narrator); Lotte Lenya (Jenny); Joe Sullivan (Polly); David Brooks (Macheath)
14 June, 1952 at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA [world premiere]

CD 9: 52:36
Copland: Short Symphony, “Symphony no.2”
27 Jan. 1957, New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall, New York

Harris: American Creed
7 Feb. 1959, New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall, New York

Piston: Concerto for Orchestra
Rec. 15 Feb. 1959, New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall, New York

Fine: Serious Song
19 Apr. 1959, New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall, New York

CD 10: 62:57
Shostakovich: Symphony no.5 (rec. session)
Copland: Billy the Kid (rec. session)
20 Oct. 1959, New York Philharmonic in Symphony Hall, Boston

CD 11:
69:18
Chávez: Symphony no.4 “Sinfonia Romántica”
Mahler: Songs: Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft; Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen; Das irdische Leben; Um Mitternacht
Jennie Tourel
8 February 1960, New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall, New York

Diamond: Symphony no.8
9 October 1961 New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall, New York

CD 12: [texts]

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