Bernstein Conducts Candide
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Composer: Leonard BernsteinConductor: Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Adolph Green
Performer: Christa Ludwig
Performer: Della Jones
Performer: Jerry Hadley
Performer: June Anderson
Performer: Kurt Ollmann
Performer: Nicolai Gedda
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-04-15
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Candide: Act I: Overture
- Candide: Act I: Westphalia Chorale
- Candide: Act I: Life Is Happiness Indeed
- Candide: Act I: The Best Of All Possible Worlds
- Candide: Act I: Universal Good
- Candide: Act I: Oh, Happy We
- Candide: Act I: It Must Be So (Candide's Meditation)
- Candide: Act I: Westphalia
- Candide: Act I: Battle Music
- Candide: Act I: Candide's Lament
- Candide: Act I: Dear Boy
- Candide: Act I: Auto-da-fe (What a Day)
- Candide: Act I: Candide Begins His Travels; It Must Be Me (2nd Meditation)
- Candide: Act I: The Paris Waltz
- Candide: Act I: Glitter And Be Gay
- Candide: Act I: You Were Dead, You Know
- Candide: Act I: I Am Easily Assimilated (Old Lady's Tango)
- Candide: Act I: Quartet Finale
- Candide: Act II: Universal Good
- Candide: Act II: My Love
- Candide: Act II: We Are Women
- Candide: Act II: The Pilgrim's Procession - Alleluia
- Candide: Act II: Quiet
- Candide: Act II: Introduction To Eldorado
- Candide: Act II: The Ballad Of Eldorado
- Candide: Act II: Words, Words, Words
- Candide: Act II: Bon Voyage
- Candide: Act II: The Kings' Barcarolle
- Candide: Act II: Money, Money, Money
- Candide: Act II: What's The Use
- Candide: Act II: The Venice Gavotte
- Candide: Act II: Nothing More Than This
- Candide: Act II: Universal Good
- Candide: Act II: Make Our Garden Grow
Music reviews of Bernstein Conducts Candide
Music Review: A modest proposal for Candide
Rating: 4 Stars
(Note: This review substantially repeats an earlier one for a highlights album from DG.)
Since almost everyone owns a CD burner now, it's possible to compile a hybrid performance that merges the classic 1956 original cast recording (Sony) with this very complete DG performance from 1989, featuring Bernstein on the podium and nearly every delicious bit he composed for the show over a period of three decades. (One could also dip into the excellent revival by the Scottish National Opera, whose singers are as operatric as DG's but younger and often better.) Candide is the sum of original inspiration and a lot of mixed after-thoughts.
I mention this recourse to a hybrid rendition becasue for all its virtues--this is a well-reocrded set with alert conducting from Bernstein (without the extra fat he added to his semi-operatic West Side Story with Te Kanawa and Carreras) the weakest things here are the two leads. The late, lamented Jerry Hadley has a gorgeous voice, but he applies a layer of ersatz emotion carried over from the opera stage, and June Anderson is a crossover diva who never lets us forget that she was born to sing Norma, not Cunegonde.
They are so inferior to the brilliant Barbara Cook and Robert Rounseville on the original-cast album that I hit upon the idea of a hybrid performance, as follows: Keep all of the 1956 selections and splice in additional music from this set in proper sequence. It doesn't make for perfection, because after decades of tinkering with the score, allowing Broadway babies like Hal Prince and Stephen Sondheim to hang ugly tinsel on it, Bernstein includes some trashy numbers (the text of the opening quartet is a cringe-worthy Sondheim addition) and revives some inferior discards from the original score.
Even so, the finished hybrid product is very satisfying, much greater than the sum of its parts. One gets to hear a classic show saved by the skin of its teeth when Columbia producer Goddard Lieberson decided to make a cast recording of a flop, with the addition of brilliant music that never got into that first album. This DG performance gets 4 stars, the hybrid 5 stars.
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