Barber: Adagio for Strings; Violin Concerto / Schuman / Ives / Copland ~ Bernstein / Stern
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Composer: Samuel BarberComposer: William Schuman
Composer: Charles Ives
Composer: Aaron Copland
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Performer: Isaac Stern
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-09-30
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Adagio For Strings - Leonard Bernstein
- I. Allegro - Isaac Stern
- II. Andante - Isaac Stern
- III. Presto In Moto - Isaac Stern
- To Thee Old Cause - Harold Gomberg
- Vigoroso - Leonard Bernstein
- Lento (Bar 185) - Leonard Bernstein
- The Unanswered Question - William Vacchiano
- Molto Deliberato - Leonard Bernstein
Music reviews of Barber: Adagio for Strings; Violin Concerto / Schuman / Ives / Copland ~ Bernstein / Stern
Music Review: Classic Bernstein recordings of American music, in best sound
Rating: 5 Stars
Sony's reissue machine tries to entice us to buy some classic Bernstein performances by giving us mid-price, excellent sound, and a jam-packed CD. As Mr. Richman notes below, the main part of this disc appeared in the Bernstein Century series, but two items have been added, Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man and Ives' Unanswered Question, both performed with all of Bernstein's infectious energy and insight.
I also give Sony the benefit of the doubt that their current DSD (Direct Stream Digital) technology is a step ahead of the last improvement, 20-bit SBM (Super Bit Mapping) technology. Who knows for sure?
Anyway, Bernstein and Stern have never been bettered in their 1964 reading of the Barber Violin Concerto. Their secret is twofold: the superb orchestral playing by the NY Phil. at its height (Harold Gomberg's oboe solo that opens the slow movement couldn't be more tender), and Bernstein's unqiue ability to conduct American rhythms. He was both a jazz baby and a swing kid, and it shows even when he is handling the delicate tracery of the concerto's first movement. Stern keeps his tone relatively dry, which is also a good idea when the melody is this luscious.
Gomberg is back center stage for William Schuman's evocative 'To the Old Cause,' a combination of oboe concerto and brooding elegy for the deaths of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. A cultural era was ending, and Schuman gives dark, painful testimony to it. The same is true for the even darker, jagged 'In Praise of Ben Shahn,' with its rough-hewn brass interjections and turbulent unease. Schuman's idiom dates from the Forties and here is getting its last stand in a moving way.
Once you throw in the Copland and Ives fillers, the net result is a terrific 74 min. memento of Bernstein at his very best and a high-water mark in Aerican music.
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