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Compositeur: BERNSTEIN, Leonard ((1918-1990)) |
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A prodigiously talented composer, pianist, conductor and teacher, Leonard Bernstein did more to validate America's position in the musical world than virtually any other musician in history. More importantly, he contributed a galaxy of superlative compositions and recorded performances to our culture, and redefined the boundaries between classical music and other recently-derived popular styles. He was the leading light of 20th century American music, and no contemporary musician of any instrument or specialty pursues his craft without first acknowledging a debt to Bernstein. As a charismatic ambassador of music, he remains without peer.
He was born Louis Bernstein into a family of Russian Jewish immigrants in Lawrence, Mass. in 1918; he changed his name to Leonard to avoid confusion with a relative named Louis. He studied piano in Boston as a child, and entered Harvard at the age of seventeen, where his composition teachers included Walter Piston and A. Tillman Merritt. After graduating in 1939, he arrived at the Curtus Institute in Philadelphia, where he studied conducting with the legendary maestro Fritz Reiner. During the summers of 1940 and 1941, he went to the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood and studied with his most important musical mentor, conductor/bassist Serge Koussevitzky. Even at this relatively young age, Bernstein was considered a major talent, both on the podium and at the piano.
By 1943, Bernstein had attained a position as an assistant conductor for the New York Philharmonic; in November of that year, he had his famous musical epiphany. On November 14, he was called upon to substitute-conduct a demanding Philharmonic concert; his flair and virtuosity captivated the audience, and critics sang his praises. From this moment on, he was the darling of the classical music world, particularly in America, where he was proclaimed the greatest young musician of the age. For the next fifteen years, he conducted the greatest orchestras of the world, both in concerts and in a blistering schedule of recordings, and won the highest stature as a pianist. In 1958, he was appointed Music Director of the New York Philharmonic; in the same year, he began his legendary series of televised concerts for children, which are still regarded as definitive ground-breaking educational events. Over the course of his career as a podium celebrity, he led countless concerts of repertoire from the Baroque to contemp
Bernstein was also a composer of great ability and verve. He wrote several classics for orchestra, including three symphonies, Facsimile, Fancy Free, Kaddish, and the Serenade for Violin and Orchestra; his musical theater credits include West Side Story, Candide, and Wonderful Town; he was the composer of many songs, chamber pieces, and incidental works. An accomplished author, he penned several books on music-making and music education. For two generations of students, he was a demi-god; making Tanglewood his second home, he conducted legendary classes in conducting and music appreciation. He was conducting and creating music until his death in 1990.
Summarizing Bernstein's musical accomplishments - and the effect of his ebullient and headstrong personality on the world's musical landscape - is a task best left to professional biographers, and several have produced high-profile studies of his life and art. As famed for his mercurial lifestyle as his musicianship, he will be forever regarded as an enigmatic and extraordinary blessing to music.
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ID: ACDBA090-2
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Collection:
Brass Collection
Subcollection: QuintetTRACKLIST
1. Fanfare La Péri 2:01
2. Stanfare 5:24
3. Esther 3:57
4. Music Hall Suite - Soubrette Song 1:33
5. Music Hall Suite - Trick-cyclists 1:12
6. Music Hall Suite - Soft shoe shuffle 2:33
7. Music Hall Suite - Les Girls 1:27
8. Triosonate in g minor - Largo 2:45
9. Triosonate in g minor - Allegro 2:44
10. Triosonate in g minor - Cantabile 2:49
11. Triosonate in g minor - Allegro 1:24
12. Air 3:37
13. Letter from Home 2:35
14. West Side Story - Prologue 2:24
15. West Side Story - Something’s Comin’ 2:24
16. West Side Story - Maria 2:46
17. West Side Story - Tonight 1:58
18. West Side Story - America 2:22
19. West Side Story - One hand, one heart 1:59
20. West Side Story - I Feel Pretty 1:38
21. West Side Story - Somewhere 2:46
22. Tea for Two 2:03
23. Night and Day 2:36 |
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ID: BC3003
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Brass Collection
J. S. Bach, (arr. Eric Crees) - Fantasia & Fugue in G minor, BWV542 'Great'
L. Bernstein, (arr. Eric Crees) - Dance Episodes (3) from ‘On The Town'
E. Crees - The Birth of Conchobar
F. Liszt, (arr. Eric Crees) - Prelude & Fugue on B-A-C-H, S260 |
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ID: BRIL6169
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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Collection:
World Music
Subcollection: Popular Classical Music MelodiesCD 1- Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig - Kurt Masur / S. Stöckigt piano (1)
CD 2- Royal Philharmonich Orchestra - Carl Davis
CD 3 - Royal Philharmonich Orchestra - Philip Ellis |
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ID: BRIL6322
CDs: 1
Type: DVD5
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Collection:
Choral Collection
1 DVD 16:9
Total time: 1:53:43
Region: (All) PAL, 2.35:1 ALL FORMATS
Sound Tracks: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Stereo 5.1 |
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ID: CDC013
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Popular Music
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ID: CHRCD008
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and PianoShe went on to say:
The upper reaches of Lott's still gleaming soprano inhabit Barber's ?Shining Night' and Fauré's ?Clair de lune'. And her robust English version of Schubert's ?Who is Sylvia?' finds an irresistible companion in Arne's ?Where the Bee Sucks', with its veritable midsummer night's dream of an accompaniment from Johnson. The artists' palpable sense of joy and well-being gathers momentum as they visit Berlioz's ?L'île inconnue' and as they sing on the water with Schubert. . . . And Lott and Johnson know well that the only way to face sentiment is to acknowledge its own integrity, as they do when they listen to Haydn Wood's ?Little Brown Bird' and eavesdrop with Fraser-Simson on Christopher Robin saying his prayers.
This CD features songs from a great variety of composers - Gershwin, Barber, Cole Porter, Bernstein, Brahms, Schubert, Arne, Schumann, Berlioz, and many more. A full 29 tracks of summer-themed songs! |
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ID: COR16031
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir |
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ID: DCD34097
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Choral and OrganThis ‘songbook’ is unique to the Schola Cantorum choristers of Tewkesbury Abbey. “Essentially, it's a showcase for the Abbey trebles,” their Director of Music Benjamin Nicholas explains. “We’ve been assembling our own Songbook for quite a while now - the songs the trebles sing, from time to time, in boys-only concerts, and that they are taught in individual singing lessons. I’ve always been keen to build each boy up as a soloist, not necessarily with the express idea of them singing lots of solos, but so that they can learn to sing in a soloistic way.”
This is evident most of all in the distinctive singing of 11- year-old Laurence Kilsby, whose gifts won him the BBC Chorister of the Year competition in 2009. On this recording, he features as soloist in two Shelley settings by Roger Quilter, the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria and in John Ireland’s beautiful, sincerely-felt Passiontide motet Ex Ore Innocentium from 1944.
Laurence Kilsby (treble), Helen Porter (piano), Carleton Etherington (organ)
The trebles of Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, Benjamin Nicholas (director)
Track listing
1 Music, When Soft Voices Die
Roger Quilter
2 Vater Unser
Arvo Pärt
3 Fairest Isle (Address To Britain)
Henry Purcell
4 Love’s Philosophy
Quilter
5 The Land Of Spices
Gabriel Jackson
6 Whispers
Howard Skempton
7 O Salutaris Hostia
Léo Delibes
8 Ex Ore Innocentium
John Ireland
9 The Flower
Philip Wilby
10 A Song At Evening
Richard Rodney Bennett
11 Ave Maria
J.S. Bach / Charles Gounod
12 Nymphs And Shepherds
Purcell
13 Dutch Carol
James MacMillan
14 I Will Give My Love An Apple
trad., arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
15 Linden Lea
Vaughan Williams
16 Dirge For Fidele
Vaughan Williams
17 Somewhere
Leonard Bernstein
18 Sure On This Shining Night
Samuel Barber
19 At The River
Robert Lowry, arr. Aaron Copland
20 The Lord’s Prayer
John Tavener, arr. Barry Rose
21 Wedding Introit
MacMillan
22 I Sing Of A Maiden
Patrick Hadley
23 Skye Boat Song
trad., arr. Percy Grainger
24 How Can I Keep From Singing?
Lowry, arr. John Scott
Total playing time [66:42] |
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ID: GCCD4044
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Sacred Music
Subcollection: Sacred Songs of SorrowAled Jones as a boy treble with Stephen Roberts.
This CD features Aled Jones when a boy treble with Stephen Roberts in two of the most popular choral works. He nowadays enjoys a second career as a baritone, a radio presenter and BBC TV presenter of "Song of Praise". |
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