Leonard Bernstein wrote his Mass at the request of Jacqueline Onassis, for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington. It is a huge work, almost an hour and three-quarters long, that with bewildering range of musical styles. In this recording, Bernstein’s protege Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, shows convincingly that she may be the best interpreter of his music alive today. This recording also features Jubilant Sykes, the Morgan State University Choir and the Peabody Children’s Chorus.
Endorsed by the Leonard Bernstein Estate, the set features rare audiovisual footage of Bernstein as piano soloist, as well as historic performances including his final appearance with the Vienna Philharmonic performing Bruckner Symphony No. 9
On August 26-and in time for the Bernstein 90th Anniversary concert celebrations which begin in September- Medici Arts, distributed by Naxos of America, releases Leonard Bernstein a 5-DVD Anniversary set devoted to performances by the legendary conductor.
The set features performances of Brahms Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (1973); and the first DVD release of Bernstein conducting the Orchestre National de France in a 1976 performance of Franck’s Symphony in D Minor and Darius Milhaud’s ballets La Création du monde and
Le Boeuf sur le toit.
Additionally, the set includes rare audiovisual footage from a 1981 performance with the Vienna Philharmonic of Bernstein performing as piano soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 in G Major, K. 453 (paired with Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K. 543); the historic concert performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, recorded at Schauspielhaus Berlin on December 25, 1989 to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall; and Bernstein’s final appearance with the Vienna Philharmonic, conducting Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9, a work he came to at the end of his life.
Herbert VON KARAJAN
Beethoven: Symphony No.9 “Choral”
Anna Tomowa-Sintow • Agnes Baltsa • René Kollo • José Van Dam •
Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Recorded live at the Philharmonie, Berlin, 31 December 1977
EuroArts 2072408
UPC: 880242724083
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Leonard Bernstein wrote his Mass at the request of Jacqueline Onassis, for the opening of the John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts in Washington. It is a huge work, almost an hour and three-quarters long, that with bewildering range of musical styles. In this recording, Bernstein’s protege Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, shows convincingly that she may be the best interpreter of his music alive today. This recording also features Jubilant Sykes, the Morgan State University Choir and the Peabody Children’s Chorus.
Herbert VON KARAJAN
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