Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs / On the Town - (3) dance interludes / Fancy Free / Serenade after Plato's Symposium

Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs / On the Town - (3) dance interludes / Fancy Free / Serenade after Plato's Symposium

Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs / On the Town - (3) dance interludes / Fancy Free / Serenade after Plato's Symposium
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Composer: Leonard Bernstein
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
Composer: Benny Goodman
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic
Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Zino Francescatti
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-09-29
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Prelude, Fugue And Riffs For Solo Clarinet And Jazz Ensemble: Prelude For The Brass
  2. Prelude, Fugue And Riffs For Solo Clarinet And Jazz Ensemble: Fugue for the Saxes
  3. Prelude, Fugue And Riffs For Solo Clarinet And Jazz Ensemble: Riffs For Everyone
  4. On The Town - Three Dance Episodes: I. The Great Lover
  5. On The Town - Three Dance Episodes: II. Lonely Town: Pas de deux
  6. III. Times Square: 1944
  7. Serenade For Solo Violin, Strings, Harp And Percussion After Plato's 'Symposium': I. Phaedrus: Pausanias (Lento - Allegro)
  8. Serenade For Solo Violin, Strings, Harp And Percussion After Plato's 'Symposium': II. Aristophanes (Allegretto)
  9. Serenade For Solo Violin, Strings, Harp And Percussion After Plato's 'Symposium': III. Eryximachus (Presto)
  10. Serenade For Solo Violin, Strings, Harp And Percussion After Plato's 'Symposium': IV. Agathon (Adagio)
  11. Serenade For Solo Violin, Strings, Harp And Percussion After Plato's 'Symposium': V. Socrates: Alcibiades (Molto tenuto - Allegro molto vivace)
  12. Fancy Free: I. Enter Three Sailors
  13. Fancy Free: II. Scene At The Bar
  14. Fancy Free: III. Enter Two Girls
  15. Fancy Free: IV. Pas de deux
  16. Fancy Free: V. Competition Scene
  17. Fancy Free: VI. Three Dance Variations - Variation 1 (Galop)
  18. Fancy Free: VI. Three Dance Variations - Variation 2 (Waltz)
  19. Fancy Free: VI. Three Dance Variations - Variation 3 (Danzon)
  20. Fancy Free: VII. Finale

Music reviews of Bernstein: Prelude, Fugue and Riffs / On the Town - (3) dance interludes / Fancy Free / Serenade after Plato's Symposium

Music Review: Bernstein with fresh, youthful exuberance
Rating: 5 Stars

The most famous collaboraiton between Leonard Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins was West Side Story, but in the Forties they had a smash with the ballet Fancy Free. It's a jazzy, pop offspring of Copland and sitll extremely enjoyable (as much fun when revived on stage as here on CD). Its scenario of three sailors on leave for a night on the town was then borrowed for the hit Broadway musical, On the Town. There were dance interludes in the plot that have been excerpted here, based on several of the show's big tunes.

Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs was written for Benny Goodman; it's a mini-concerto for clarinet along the lines of Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto and Copland's clarinet concerto, but jazzier and more exuberant than either. LB didn't have to imitate the jazz idiom; he grew up with it. The most serious piece here is the violin concerto titled Serenade that depicts various characters sitting aorund the banquet table in Plato's Symposium. The rather pretentious references have little resonance for listeners, but the work remains solid--I've never been able to follow it with full enjoyment, but this recording with Francescatti is riveting.
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