Leonard Bernstein: Broadway to Hollywood

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Sutherland’s grasp of the musical qualities of each score is impressive. Most notable is the symphonic suite On the Waterfront, which receives a performance of genuine insight. This is worth... — Musical Opinion, October/December 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Jul 2018
Catalogue No: ARIADNE5002
Label: Somm
Series: Ariadne
Length: 75 minutes

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Bernstein: Candide - Overture

Work length4:52

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NDR Radiophilharmonie
Iain Sutherland
Recorded: 1993
Recording Venue: Live recording, Studios of NDR Radiophilharmonie, Hanover, Germany

Bernstein: On the Waterfront: Symphonic Suite

Work length21:20

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NDR Radiophilharmonie
Iain Sutherland
Recorded: 1993
Recording Venue: Live recording, Studios of NDR Radiophilharmonie, Hanover, Germany

Bernstein: Fancy Free, ballet

Work length20:05

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NDR Radiophilharmonie
Iain Sutherland
Recorded: 1993
Recording Venue: Live recording, Studios of NDR Radiophilharmonie, Hanover, Germany

Excerpt, Bernstein: West Side Story: Symphonic Dances

Work length23:44

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NDR Radiophilharmonie
Iain Sutherland
Recorded: 1993
Recording Venue: Live recording, Studios of NDR Radiophilharmonie, Hanover, Germany

Excerpt, Bernstein: Dance Episodes (3) from ‘On The Town'

Work length5:19

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NDR Radiophilharmonie
Iain Sutherland
Recorded: 1993
Recording Venue: Live recording, Studios of NDR Radiophilharmonie, Hanover, Germany

No. 2, Lonely Town [Live]

Track length3:12

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No. 1, The Great Lover Displays Himself [Live]

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SOMM Recordings celebrates the centenary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth in style with a remarkable 1993 live broadcast recording – never before issued and newly mastered for CD – with the Hannover Philharmonie conducted by Iain Sutherland.

Five of Bernstein’s era-defining works for Broadway and Hollywood revel in his inexhaustible gift for memorable melodies, his vivid sense of drama, infectious playfulness and captivating sense of poetry.

The effervescent Overture to Bernstein’s 1956 re-telling of Voltaire’s Candide has long been a concert hall favourite. Brilliant, uplifting and thrillingly orchestrated, it brims with memorable tunes threaded together with masterful aplomb.

The Symphonic Suite drawn from his score for Elia Kazan’s Oscar-laden 1954 film On the Waterfront is a heavyweight exercise in evocative and atmospheric music, its muscle and menace transformed into a final, redemptive hymn to individual freedom.

A decade earlier, Bernstein’s first extended theatre music – for Jerome Robbins’ ballet Fancy Free – made brilliant use of a symphony orchestra’s resources with stylish infusions of jazz-based and Latin-influenced concert music.

On the Town pays tribute to the city that never sleeps in an exuberant tale of three sailors finding love on 24-hour shore-leave in New York. Its Two Dance Episodes borrow themes from Fancy Free (on which it was based) to exhilarating effect.

Bernstein’s theatre masterpiece West Side Story transformed the American musical overnight in 1957. With its great trajectory from C major to E flat and back again, it carries itself with operatic immediacy. The Symphonic Dances drawn from the score exalt in the power of an orchestra in full, forceful flow.

Robert Matthew-Walker, author of Broadway to Hollywood: the Musical and the Cinema, provides insightful booklet notes that illuminate Bernstein the man, the composer and his wonderfully inimitable music.

Bernstein’s Piano Sonata was featured on SOMM’s acclaimed collection of Great American Sonatas played by Nathan Williamson.

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Musical Opinion October/December 2018

Sutherland’s grasp of the musical qualities of each score is impressive. Most notable is the symphonic suite On the Waterfront, which receives a performance of genuine insight. This is worth the price of the disc itself. As the recording quality is clear and natural, this addition to the Bernstein discography is fully recommended.

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