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Bernstein: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Awards:
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Record Review, 14th January 2017, Recording of the Week
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Symphonic Recording (20th/21st-century music)
The performances are predictably excellent. In No. 1, the imposing first movement is presented with fervour, and the Copland-like central scherzo with lightness and precision; Jennifer Johnson...
Bernstein: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano), Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
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Awards:
-
Record Review, 14th January 2017, Recording of the Week
-
Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Symphonic Recording (20th/21st-century music)
The performances are predictably excellent. In No. 1, the imposing first movement is presented with fervour, and the Copland-like central scherzo with lightness and precision; Jennifer Johnson...
About
Leonard Bernstein’s legendary 1943 Carnegie Hall conducting début brought his name to national attention, and the event was followed a few months later by the triumphant reception of his Symphony No. 1 ‘Jeremiah.’ This major symphonic statement explores a crisis in faith and employs Jewish liturgical sources, its final movement, Lamentation, being an anguished cry at the destruction of Jerusalem. Sharing the theme of loss of faith, Symphony No. 2 ‘The Age of Anxiety’ takes W.H. Auden’s poem of the same name and follows its four characters in their spiritual journey to hard-won triumph. Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3 ‘Kaddish’ can be heard on Naxos 8559742.
Contents and tracklist
- Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano)
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
- Marin Alsop
- Recorded: 21 and 23 November 2014
- Recording Venue: Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
- Marin Alsop
- Recorded: 27-28 September 2013
- Recording Venue: Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Awards and reviews
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Record Review14th January 2017Recording of the Week
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Opus Klassik Awards2018Winner - Symphonic Recording (20th/21st-century music)
March 2017
The performances are predictably excellent. In No. 1, the imposing first movement is presented with fervour, and the Copland-like central scherzo with lightness and precision; Jennifer Johnson Cano brings sustained intensity to the finale. In No. 2, the orchestra and Jean-Yves Thibaudet negotiate the two opening chains of variations with wide-ranging characterisation
24th February 2017
Fine Bernstein interpretations, splendidly played.
Classics Today December 2016
We all know that Alsop is a superb Bernstein conductor…in the central Profanation movement, Alsop really does outdo Bernstein himself; the playing of the Baltimore Symphony here is sensational, and in the finale Jennifer Johnson Cano sings with great sensitivity and a beautiful tone. The tragic climaxes hit you right in the gut…a marvellous release by any standard.
