Bernstein: Age of Anxiety; Fancy Free
On this CD:
1. Candide, operetta Overture
Composed by Leonard Bernstein
Performed by Bournemouth Sinfonietta
Conducted by Andrew Litton
2. Symphony No. 2 ("The Age of Anxiety")
Composed by Leonard Bernstein
Performed by Bournemouth Sinfonietta
Conducted by Andrew Litton
3. Fancy Free, ballet
Composed by Leonard Bernstein
Performed by Bournemouth Sinfonietta
with Billie Holiday
Conducted by Andrew Litton
Bernstein: Age of Anxiety; Fancy Free, Music, Leonard Bernstein, Andrew Litton, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Billie Holiday, 20th/21st Century Ballet, 20th/21st Century Overture, 20th/21st Century Symphony, Ballet, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Orchestral, Orchestral & Symphonic, Symphonic
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Customer Reviews:
Mostly valuable for what's not duplicated.......2006-09-21
Once he departed for Europe, Bernstein rarely recorded again in the U.S. These recordings demonstrate his loyalty to the Israel Phil., with whom he duplicated many things he had already recorded in New York. This set is equally a testimonry to his love affair with the Vienna Phil, which sounds a little out of touch in American music. The original recordings from NY on Sony surpass the remakes in vigor and freshness. Even so, it's nice to get the Kaddish Sym. with revised narration, and to hear Gidon Kremer in the Serenade for violin and orchestra.
This 7-disc set also includes later Bernstein compositions that never appeared on Sony, in particular Songest and Jubilee Games. But the singers aren't particularly good in the former recording and the piece isn't very good in the latter. All in all, I think only a Bernstein completist would seek out this collection. Better to stick with the wonderful recordings originally made in New York in Bernstein's heyday.
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A Total Embrace: The Composer
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ASIN: B0000AQS3U
Release Date: 2003-09-09 |
Tracks:
- Concert Works: I. Psalm 108 (Verse 2) & Psalm 100 (Complete) - Camerata Singers
- Concert Works: II. Psalm 23 (Complete) & Psalm 2 (Verses 1-4) - Camerata Singers
- Concert Works: III. Psalm 131 (Complete) & Psalm 133 (Verse 1) - Camerata Singers
- Concert Works: III. Lamentation - Jennie Tourel
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- Concert Works: B. The Masque: Extremely Fast - Philippe Entremont
- Concert Works: C. The Epilogue: Adagio; Andante; Con Moto - Philippe Entremont
- Concert Works: IV. ' A Big Indian And A Little Indian' Con Brio - Leonard Bernstein
- Concert Works: IV. 'Civet A Toute Vitesse (Rabbit At Top Speed)' - Leonard Bernstein
- Concert Works: I. Prelude For The Brass - Benny Goodman
- Concert Works: II. Fugue For The Saxes - Benny Goodman
- Concert Works: III. Riffs For Everyone - Benny Goodman
- Concert Works: I. Invocation. Kaddish 1 - Camerata Singers
- Concert Works: Film: Love Theme - New York Philharmonic
Tracks:
- Theater Works: Opening: 'New York, New York' - Adolph Green
- Theater Works: 'Lonely Town'/Dance: Lonely Town - John Reardon
- Theater Works: Dance: Times Square - Leonard Bernstein
- Theater Works: 'Some Other Time' - Betty Comden
- Theater Works: Dance: The Real Coney Island - Ensemble
- Theater Works: I. Enter Three Sailors - Leonard Bernstein
- Theater Works: IV. Pas De Deux - Leonard Bernstein
- Theater Works: VII. Finale - Leonard Bernstein
- Theater Works: 'The Pirate Songs' - Boris Karloff And The Pirates
- Theater Works: 'Ohio' - Rosalind Russell
- Theater Works: 'A Little Bit In Love (Never Felt This Way Before)' - Jacquelyn
- Theater Works: 'A Quiet Girl' - Sydney Chaplin
- Theater Works: 'Conga!' - Ensemble
- Theater Works: 'Wrong Note Rag' - Ensemble
- Theater Works: Overture - Original Broadway Cast
- Theater Works: 'Best Of All Possible Worlds' - Chorus
- Theater Works: Mazurka - Barbara Cook
- Theater Works: 'Glitter And Be Gay' - Barbara Cook
- Theater Works: 'Make Our Garden Grow' - Ensemble
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- Theater Works: The Dance At The Gym - The Jets
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Bernstein: Age of Anxiety; Fancy Free
Manufacturer: EMI Records [All429]
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ASIN: B00000DO06
Release Date: 2000-07-11 |
Tracks:
- Candide Overture - The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No.2 For Piano And Orchestra
- The Prologue
- Variation I: L'Istesso Tempo
- Variation II: Poco Piu Mosso
- Variation III: Largamente
- Variation IV: Piu Mosso
- Viriation V
- Variation VI: Poco Meno Mosso
- Variation VII: L'Istesso Tempo
- Variation VII: Molto Moderato, Ma Movendo
- Variation IX: Piu Mosso (Tempo Di Valse)
- Variation X: Piu Mosso
- Variation XI: L'Istesso Tempo
- Variation XII: Poco Piu Vivace
- Variation XII: L'Istesso Tempo
- Variation XIV: Poco Piu Vivace
- The Dirge
- The Masque
- The Epilogue
- Enter Three Sailors
- Scene At The Bar
- Enter Two Girls
- Pas De Deux
- Competition Scene Three Dance Variations
- I. Galop
- II. Waltz
- III. Danzon
- Finale
Customer Reviews:
While I don't have THIS very album...........2003-05-09
...I can tell you, Fancy Free is probably the best thing the NY Philharmonic ever composed outside of "West Side Story". In fact, the latter was informed with quite a bit of the former's cues and melodic tricks. Yelping crescendoes, lots of rim shots....that old "Broadway" sound, latinate influence, especially in the "Waltz" movement, all put you in mind of Fred Astaire encountering the Jets or the Sharks at the corner of 8th Ave.and 90th St. Nothing could pry Bernstein away from the Broadway/Manhattan influence, and just about everything he composed showed it...even his "Mass" sounded like something the La Mama Players would have whipped up in the Village!
This piece was another take on Gershwin's territory, updated for the postwar era. While Gershwin captured the Cotton Club feel of Manhattan in the 30s, this work nailed the feel of Broadway in the same period, all the 50s and the early 60s like no other neo-classical work. Bernstein was one of the few composers who had any connection to the classical field, besides Gershwin, to actually stage anything on Broadway itself, composing scores for numerous collaborations with Betty Comden and Adolph Green: "On The Town", "Wonderful Town" and "Candide" were some of the fruits of these labors, with West Side Story, which he did with Stephen Sondheim and Jerome Robbins, perhaps being his crowning non-classical achievement. Fancy Free, composed in 1944, captured the permanent image of central Manhattan as a bustling, sparkling urban mecca with all kinds of sophisticated and seedy characters. While the portion of the piece that precedes the "Three Dances" seems like filler, it, as well, captures the feel of midtown Manhattan at anywhere from 9pm to 3 in the wee smalls. The three dances illuminate the island's soul: The opening chords of "Galop" immediately put you in mind of a police car answering an all points bulletin....the waltz takes you to Spanish Harlem, with "Danzon" enlarging on that, perhaps putting you in the midst of a block party with the women in full "carnivale" regalia.
One of the best pieces of "city" music ever done....aside from Richard Rodger's "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" and others I can't think of right now, for some odd reason.
I do NOT, however, recommend "Age Of Anxiety". This piece, probably more than anything else Bernstein ever did, exemplifies the pretense and pomposity he was capable of, and the melodic payoff is almost nil.
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ASIN: B000026CID
Release Date: 2000-02-01 |
Tracks:
- Symphonic Dances From West Side Story: Prologue
- Symphonic Dances From West Side Story: 'Somewhere'
- Symphonic Dances From West Side Story: Scherzo
- Symphonic Dances From West Side Story: Mambo
- Symphonic Dances From West Side Story: Cha-Cha
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- Symphonic Dances From West Side Story: Finale
- On The Town: The Great Lover
- On The Town: Pas de deux
- On The Town: Times Square Ballet
- Fancy Free: Enter Three Sailors
- Fancy Free: Scene At The Bar
- Fancy Free: Enter Two Girls
- Fancy Free: Pas de deux
- Fancy Free: Competition Scene
- 3 Dances Variations: I. Galop
- 3 Dances Variations: II. Waltz
- 3 Dances Variations: III. Danzon
- 3 Dances Variations: Finale
- Candide: Overture
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- The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Part One: A. The Prologue
- The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Part One: B. The Seven Ages; Var. I. - L'istesso tempo
- Part One: B. The Seven Ages; Var. II. - Poco piu lento
- The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Part One: B. The Seven Ages; Var. III. - Largamente
- The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Part One: B. The Seven Ages; Var. IV. - Piu mosso
- The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Part One: B. The Seven Ages; Var. V.
- The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Part One: B. The Seven Ages; Var. VI. - Poco meno mosso
- The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Part One: B. The Seven Ages; Var. VII. - L'istesso tempo
- The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Part One: C. The Seven Stages; Var. VIII. - Molto moderato, ma movendo
- The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Part One: C. The Seven Stages; Var. IX. - Piu mosso (Tempo di Valse)
- The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Part One: C. The Seven Stages; Var. X. - Piu mosso
- The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Part One: C. The Seven Stages; Var. XI. - L'istesso tempo
- The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Part One: C. The Seven Stages; Var. XII. - Poco piu vivace
- The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Part One: C. The Seven Stages; Var. XIII. - L'istesso tempo
- The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Part One: C. The Seven Stages; Var. XIV. - Poco piu vivace
- The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Part Two: A. The Dirge
- The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Part Two: B. The Masque
- The Age Of Anxiety: Symphony No. 2 For Piano & Orchestra: Part Two: C. The Epilogue
- Appalachian Spring, Suite
- Quiet City
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