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| Bernstein Century - Ives: Unanswered Question / New York Po | |||||
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Release Date: 03/31/1998 Label: Sony Catalog #: 60203 Spars Code: ADD Composer: Charles Ives, Elliott Carter Performer: William Vacchiano Conductor: Leonard Bernstein, Seiji Ozawa, Maurice Peress Orchestra/Ensemble: New York Philharmonic, Camerata Singers
Number of Discs: 1 |
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It was Bernstein who introduced the Ives Second, amazingly, in 1951; the young conductor then premiered Ives's Symphony No. 1 in 1953 and No. 4 in 1965. All were worth the wait. And if the modest Ives revival has yielded other very fine recordings of the symphonies - from Michael Tilson Thomas and the Concertgebouw at their most surprising, from the sterling Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, from the inimitable Bernstein himself late in his own career - the New York Philharmonic captured with Bernstein in these recordings dating from 1958 to 1966 is in a class of its own. What a ball Lenny and his players have with the music! Everyone is at his or her spontaneous best, and while the rough edges show in ways they would not in the late Seventies or Eighties the whole affair still carries the exhilaration of discovery. There is method in all the rambunctiousness, too: Bernstein's sublime control in the Adagio cantabile central movement of the Symphony No. 2 is all the more extraordinary in the naturalness of the results. Only the Holidays symphony, recorded on different occasions before its disparate movements were called a unified work, betrays the absence of the conductor's breathtakingly organic approach. Yet the opening holiday, 'Washington's Birthday', emerges with so much joy that only a prig would complain of the lack of relation to the final 'Thanksgiving Day'. These are key recordings in understanding both Ives and Bernstein. They are also immensely enjoyable. -- Octavio Roca, BBC Music Magazine |
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Contemplations (2): no 1, The Unanswered Question by Charles Ives | ||||
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Performer:
William Vacchiano (Trumpet)
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein Orchestra/Ensemble: New York Philharmonic Period: 20th Century Written: 1906; USA |
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Date of Recording: 04/17/1964 Venue: Manhattan Center, New York City |
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Holidays: Washington's Birthday by Charles Ives | ||||
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Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble: New York Philharmonic Period: 20th Century Written: 1909; USA |
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Date of Recording: 01/31/1967 Venue: Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC |
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Holidays: Decoration Day by Charles Ives | ||||
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Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble: New York Philharmonic Period: 20th Century Written: 1912; USA |
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Date of Recording: 05/27/1963 Venue: Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC |
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Holidays: The Fourth of July by Charles Ives | ||||
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Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble: New York Philharmonic Period: 20th Century Written: 1911-1913; USA |
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Date of Recording: 11/23/1964 Venue: Manhattan Center, New York City |
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Holidays: Thanksgiving and/or Forefathers' Day by Charles Ives | ||||
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Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble: Camerata Singers, New York Philharmonic Period: 20th Century Written: 1904; USA |
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Date of Recording: 03/05/1968 Venue: Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC |
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Contemplations (2): no 2, Central Park in the Dark by Charles Ives | ||||
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Conductor:
Seiji Ozawa,
Maurice Peress
Orchestra/Ensemble: New York Philharmonic Period: 20th Century Written: 1906; USA |
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Date of Recording: 05/07/1962 Venue: Manhattan Center, New York City |
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Concerto for Orchestra by Elliott Carter | ||||
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Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble: New York Philharmonic Period: 20th Century Written: 1969; USA |
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Date of Recording: 02/11/1970 Venue: Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC |
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