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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra|Bernstein: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2

Bernstein: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2

Marin Alsop, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

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This recording follows on a successful reading by the same forces of Bernstein's Symphony No. 3 ("Kaddish") of 1963. You can see why they started with the later work first, although the 1965 revision of the Symphony No. 2 ("The Age of Anxiety") actually postdates the earlier-numbered work. All three works share a common theme, namely the crisis of faith, but the oratorio-like "Kaddish" Symphony has a dramatic quality that makes its concerns explicitly. Here, Bernstein employed musical symbolism that takes a little bit of immersion (or study of the fine booklet notes by Frank K. DeWald) to grasp. The Symphony No. 2 was inspired by a lengthy W.H. Auden poem of the same name, consisting of pieces of a conversation among a group of New Yorkers in a bar. Bernstein does not represent it blow by blow, but tries to replicate the structure, using two sets of variations, a tone row (although not 12-tone structure), and diversions into jazz and pop along the way. It works once you get into it, and conductor Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra are greatly aided by the presence of French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. The Symphony No. 1, which Bernstein began to think about in 1939, when he was 21, is similarly hard to pin down: it uses Jewish melodic material only obliquely (the booklet quotes a specialist with the interesting claim that Bernstein used more of it than he thought he did), but it is suffused throughout with the spirit of the Lamentations that provide the final movement's text. These are sympathetic performances, worth the time of those interested in the work of one of the 20th century's still underrated composers (at least in the classical sphere).

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Symphony No. 1 "Jeremiah" (Leonard Bernstein)

1
I. Prophecy
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
00:07:08

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Tim Handley, Producer - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor

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2
II. Profanation
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
00:06:59

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

3
III. Lamentation
Jennifer Johnson Cano
00:10:04

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor - Jennifer Johnson Cano, Artist, MainArtist

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

Symphony No. 2, "The Age of Anxiety"* (Leonard Bernstein)

4
Part I: The Prologue: Lento moderato -
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:02:02

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Tim Handley, Producer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety", Pt. 1, The Seven Ages (Leonard Bernstein)

5
Part I: The Seven Ages: Variation 1: L'istesso tempo -
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:00:51

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

6
Part I: The Seven Ages: Variation 2: Poco più mosso -
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:01:27

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

7
Part I: The Seven Ages: Variation 3: Largamente, ma mosso -
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:01:19

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

8
Part I: The Seven Ages: Variation 4: Più mosso -
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:00:54

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

9
Part I: The Seven Ages: Variation 5 -
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:00:50

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

10
Part I: The Seven Ages: Variation 6: Poco meno mosso -
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:01:01

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

11
Part I: The Seven Ages: Variation 7: L'istesso tempo -
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:01:35

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety", Pt. 1, The Seven Stages (Leonard Bernstein)

12
Part I: The Seven Stages: Variation 8: Molto moderato, ma movendo -
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:01:49

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

13
Part I: The Seven Stages: Variation 9: Più mosso [tempo di valse] -
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:01:21

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

14
Part I: The Seven Stages: Variation 10: Più mosso -
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:00:28

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

15
Part I: The Seven Stages: Variation 11: L'istesso tempo -
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:00:55

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

16
Part I: The Seven Stages: Variation 12: Poco più vivace -
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:00:13

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

17
Part I: The Seven Stages: Variation 13: L'istesso tempo -
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:00:44

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

18
Part I: The Seven Stages: Variation 14: L'istesso tempo [poco più vivace]
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:00:31

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety", Pt. 2 (Leonard Bernstein)

19
Part II: The Dirge: Largo -
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:06:28

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

20
Part II: The Masque: Extremely fast -
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:04:49

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

21
Part II: The Epilogue: L'istesso tempo
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
00:07:49

Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Artist, MainArtist - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Marin Alsop, Conductor

(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos

Album review

This recording follows on a successful reading by the same forces of Bernstein's Symphony No. 3 ("Kaddish") of 1963. You can see why they started with the later work first, although the 1965 revision of the Symphony No. 2 ("The Age of Anxiety") actually postdates the earlier-numbered work. All three works share a common theme, namely the crisis of faith, but the oratorio-like "Kaddish" Symphony has a dramatic quality that makes its concerns explicitly. Here, Bernstein employed musical symbolism that takes a little bit of immersion (or study of the fine booklet notes by Frank K. DeWald) to grasp. The Symphony No. 2 was inspired by a lengthy W.H. Auden poem of the same name, consisting of pieces of a conversation among a group of New Yorkers in a bar. Bernstein does not represent it blow by blow, but tries to replicate the structure, using two sets of variations, a tone row (although not 12-tone structure), and diversions into jazz and pop along the way. It works once you get into it, and conductor Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra are greatly aided by the presence of French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. The Symphony No. 1, which Bernstein began to think about in 1939, when he was 21, is similarly hard to pin down: it uses Jewish melodic material only obliquely (the booklet quotes a specialist with the interesting claim that Bernstein used more of it than he thought he did), but it is suffused throughout with the spirit of the Lamentations that provide the final movement's text. These are sympathetic performances, worth the time of those interested in the work of one of the 20th century's still underrated composers (at least in the classical sphere).

© TiVo

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