Leonard Bernstein - Maestro on Record (12 CDs plus 224 page book)
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Leonard Bernstein - Maestro on Record (12 CDs plus 224 page book)
Andre Watts (piano) Zino Francescatti (violin) Glenn Gould (piano) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) / Conducted by Leonard Benstein
[ Sony Music / 13 CD/Book ]
Release Date: Friday 15 September 2023
Leonard Bernstein first signed with Columbia Masterworks in 1956, and up to 1979 he recorded over 500 compositions as conductor, pianist, and commentator for the label. Just a year before, legendary photographer Don Hunstein joined Columbia Records at a time when the company was under the direction of Goddard Lieberson, who thought it important to document in photographs the cultural history of the music of the time.
This 224-page book collects for the first time the photographic highlights - many of them previously unseen - from the Leonard Bernstein photo collection. It also contains twelve CDs with Bernstein's legendary recordings of symphonic masterpieces, concertos, and vocal works, featuring him as conductor, composer, and pianist. This book is a tribute to the art of recording-studio photography in the heyday of the LP era. The newly retouched images show "Lenny" in the intimate moments of shared music-making and allow us to experience something of the secret inherent in music itself: its magical ability to touch and connect people in their hearts.
The reason why these precious photos are all still preserved lies in the middle of Manhattan: in a separate area of an art deco landmark, the Sony Music Photo Collection is located, one of the world's most important photo archives, documenting the history of the recording industry from the 1950s up to today. The invaluable archives of roughly two and a half million film negatives, transparencies, and prints encompass recording-session, album-cover, publicity, and live-concert shoots - and more than 21,000 images related to Leonard Bernstein himself.
NOTE: We will not be holding stock, however this set is available to order
Tracks:
Barber, Samuel
Adagio for Strings, op.11
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat major, op.19
Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.55 'Eroica'
Bernstein, Leonard
Anniversaries (7) for piano (1943)
Candide "Overture"
On the Town: 3 Dance Episodes
On the Waterfront: Symphonic Suite
Serenade after Plato's 'Symposium'
Symphony no.2 'The Age of Anxiety'
West Side Story: Symphonic Dances
Bizet, Georges
Carmen Suite no.1
Symphony in C major
Copland, Aaron
Rodeo (Four Dance Episodes)
Dukas, Paul
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'Apprenti sorcier)
Dvorak, Antonin
Symphony no.9 in E minor, op.95 B178 'From the New World'
Gershwin, George
An American in Paris
Rhapsody in Blue
Grieg, Edvard
Peer Gynt: Suite no.1, op.46
Haydn, Franz Joseph
Symphony no.86 in D major, Hob.I:86
Honegger, Arthur
Pacific 231
Ives, Charles
The Unanswered Question
Liszt, Franz
Piano Concerto no.1 in E flat major, S124
Mahler, Gustav
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer)
Ruckert-Lieder (5)
Symphony no.3 in D minor
Symphony no.5 in C sharp minor
"IV Adagietto"
Mendelssohn, Felix
Symphony no.4 in A major, op.90 'Italian'
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Piano Concerto no.17 in G major, K453
Mussorgsky, Modest
A Night on the Bare Mountain
Ponchielli, Amilcare
La Gioconda
"Dance of the Hours" (Act 3)
Ravel, Maurice
Bolero
Revueltas, Silvestre
Sensemaya
Rossini, Gioachino
William Tell (Guillaume Tell)
"Overture"
Shostakovich, Dmitri
Piano Concerto no.2 in F major, op.102
Sibelius, Jean
Valse triste, op.44 no.1
Violin Concerto in D minor, op.47
Strauss, Richard
Der Rosenkavalier, op.59
"Ist Ein Traum, Kann Nicht Wirklich Sein"
"Marie Theres! ...Es ist ein Traum"
Stravinsky, Igor
The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps)
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
Capriccio italien, op.45
Verdi, Giuseppe
Falstaff
"Tutto nel mondo e burla"
Wagner, Richard
Tannhauser
"Festive March"
Tristan und Isolde
"Prelude and Liebestod"
