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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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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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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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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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Brahms - Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4
Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
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Leonard Bernstein conducts Beethoven & Haydn
RecommendedJudith Blegen (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Claes H. Ahnsjö (tenor), Hans Sotin (bass)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Leonard Bernstein
Beethoven's last quartet, expanded for full strings, sounds nicely urgent but unsuitably Romantic. Haydn's Mass is almost upstaged by its glorious setting, the Baroque basilica at Ottobeuren. — More…
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Building A Library, October 2021, Recommendation with modern instruments
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Video Documentary
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In the last three there is a close rapport and unity of purpose between these two in many ways highly differing musical personalities; Zimerman poised and aristocratic, Bernstein a full-bodied,... — More…
