Browse: Bernstein (composer), Musicals
This page lists all recordings composed by Leonard Bernstein (1918–90).
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Bernstein: Candide
RecommendedLeonardo Capalbo (Candide), Jane Archibald (Cunegonde), Anne Sofie von Otter (Old Lady), Thomas Allen (Dr Pangloss/Narrator)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Marin Alsop
In the title role, Leonardo Capalbo offers charm, delicacy and a touch of melancholy. Jane Archibald makes an amiable Cunegonde, though her showpiece ‘Glitter and be gay’ doesn’t sparkle enough.... — More…
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Record Review, 9th October 2021, Record of the Week
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Bernstein: On The Waterfront
RecommendedOrchestral Works
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Lindberg
They’re completely on fire, chiselling hot rhythms out of the percussion, melting their lips on ritzy brass cascades. They also obviously relish the tenderness of those rare moments when Bernstein... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2018, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Quiet City
RecommendedAlison Balsom (trumpet), Tom Poster (piano), Nicholas Daniel (cor anglais), Britten Sinfonia, Scott Stroman
Revisiting the improvisatory practice of jazz icons with highly idiosyncratic techniques can fall flat, but Balsom and the Britten Sinfonia make it work. They are entirely idiomatic and wonderfully... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th August 2022
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Elîna Garanča: Habanera
RecommendedElîna Garanča (mezzo), Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Coro Filarmonico del Regio di Torino, Karel Mark Chichon
Garanča's is a medium-scale mezzo approach, elegant and devoid of ugly lurches into chest voice. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd August 2010
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2010, Editor's Choice
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Bernstein: Wonderful Town
RecommendedDanielle de Niese (Eileen), Alysha Umphress (Ruth), Nathan Gunn (Bob Baker), Duncan Rock (Wreck), David Butt Philip (Lonigan), Ashley Riches (Guide/First Editor/Frank)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
Rattle obviously adores the score and in broad terms he certainly enters into its spirit…but there’s just a slight touch of restrain about the whole enterprise; it’s all a bit too tasteful…The... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th September 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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One happy consequence of the Bolívar Orchestra's ascendancy is that Latin American repertoire previously known to connoisseurs has gained circulation… the one widely acknowledged masterpiece,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th May 2008
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, Disc of the Month
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Classical Without Borders
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Alsop and her Bournemouth band capture [On the Waterfront] as surely and atmospherically as they do the glitzy exuberance of On the Town...it reeks of adrenaline, and brutal oppression...It may... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2003, Disc of the Month
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The performances range from a touchingly direct version of Maria from West Side Story, to a distinctly mannered You’ll Never Walk Alone from Carousel, which Kaufmann delivers in an oddly halting... — More…
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