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Bernstein: Candide
RecommendedCandide - Jerry Hadley, Cunegonde - June Anderson, Dr.Pangloss/Martin - Adolph Green, Old Lady - Christa Ludwig, Govenor/Vanderdendur/Ragotski - Nicolai Gedda, Paquette - Della Jones & Maximilian/Captain - Kurt Ollmann
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Music Theatre
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Grammy Awards, 34th Awards (1991), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 34th Awards (1991), Classical Album of the Year
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Bernstein: Candide
RecommendedJerry Hadley (Candide), June Anderson (Cunegonde), Adolph Green (Dr. Pangloss/Martin), Christa Ludwig (Old Lady), Nicolai Gedda (Governor/Vanderdendur/Ragotski)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Leonard Bernstein
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Music Theatre
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Grammy Awards, 34th Awards (1991), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Grammy Awards, 34th Awards (1991), Classical Album of the Year
2 CDs + DVD Video
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
RecommendedGundula Janowitz (Leonore), Rene Kollo (Florestan), Manfred Jungwirth (Rocco), Hans Sotin (Pizarro), Lucia Popp (Marzelline), Adolf Dallapozza (Jaquino), Hans Helm (Fernando), Karl Terkal (First Prisoner), Alfred Sramek (Second Prisoner)
Wiener Staatsoper, Leonard Bernstein
Bernstein had a special rapport with Beethoven's opera and indeed with Vienna, where Otto Schenk's 1989 production is given further conviction by a top-quality cast led by Gundula Janowitz's... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
Marie Mclaughlin (soprano), Maria Ewing (mezzo), Jerry Hadley (tenor), Cornelius Hauptmann (baritone)
Chor und Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Leonard Bernstein
A big-hearted, quasi-19th-century view…deliberate and portentous in the slower movements, swift and dramatic in the faster ones…carried off with the conviction this conductor brings to all his... — More…
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The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
Eva Marton, Kiri Te Kanawa, James McCracken, Ruggero Raimondi, Joan Sutherland, Catherine Malfitano, Alfredo Kraus, Nicolai Gedda, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Plácido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Jose Carreras, Montserrat Caballé, Ileana Cotrubas, Linda Gelinas, Ricardo Costa, Renato Bruson, Grace Bumbry, Katia...
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Liszt: A Faust Symphony, S108
RecommendedKenneth Riegel (tenor)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus & Boston Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
Noble, passionate performance of Liszt's greatest work, Bernstein conducting with precision and fervour, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra ideal. Not much is added by seeing Bernstein emoting... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Leonard Bernstein - Reflections
RecommendedA film by Peter Rosen
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & Orchestre National de France, Leonard Bernstein
…we see Bernstein reflecting on his life and music, shot in Carnegie Hall (scene of his legendary 1943 debut) and his studio overlooking New York's Central Park. What a charismatic talker he... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - DVD Documentary
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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 17 & Symphony No. 39
RecommendedLeonard Bernstein (piano)
Wiener Philharmoniker
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Brahms - Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4
Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
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Bernstein was periodically accused of self-indulgence in other repertoire. That’s a charge that could never stick in these joyous performances of three G major symphonies…Rather, there is grace,... — More…
