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 Great Conductors - Leonard Bernstein - Gershwin, Carpenter
Release Date: 11/26/2002 
Label:  Symposium   Catalog #: 1295   Spars Code: ADD 
Composer:  John Alden CarpenterDmitri ShostakovichFelix MendelssohnGeorge Gershwin
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York PhilharmonicRCA Victor Symphony Orchestra

Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Mono 
Length: 1 Hours 18 Mins. 

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Notes & Reviews   Works on This Recording  
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To the historical collector, this CD will sell itself. Both the Carpenter and the Shostakovich works are taken from a concert given in 1945. The performance of the Gershwin was done in the studio in 1947.
 Works on This Recording Back to Top 
1.  Sea Drift by John Alden Carpenter
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1933/1944; USA 
Date of Recording: 01/28/1945 
Venue:  Live  Carnegie Hall, New York City 
Length: 11 Minutes 10 Secs. 
Notes: This selection is preceded by a spoken introduction and the playing of John Stafford Smith's "Star-spangled Banner."
Ver: 1944 
2.  Symphony no 5 in D minor, Op. 47 by Dmitri Shostakovich
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1937; USSR 
Date of Recording: 01/28/1945 
Venue:  Live  Carnegie Hall, New York City 
Length: 43 Minutes 30 Secs. 
Notes: This selection is preceded by a spoken introduction from the 1945 radio
broadcast. 
3.  Symphony no 3 in A minor, Op. 56 "Scottish": 1st movement, Andante con moto-Allegro un poco agitato by Felix Mendelssohn
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1842; Germany 
Date of Recording: 01/28/1945 
Venue:  Live  Carnegie Hall, New York City 
Length: 2 Minutes 0 Secs. 
Notes: This selection is interrupted by a spoken announcement and is presented in excerpted form. 
4.  An American in Paris by George Gershwin
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1928; USA 
Date of Recording: 1947 
Length: 17 Minutes 48 Secs. 
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