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With his 'comic operetta' Candide, which opened unsuccessfully on Broadway in 1956, Leonard Bernstein and his librettist Lillian Hellman used Voltaire's play to hit back at the United States' terrible era of the anti-communist witch-hunt under the aegis of the infamous Senator Joseph McCarthy.
A dizzying tribute to European music, with its brilliant and tender pastiches of opera and operetta, Candide had suffered a long and difficult genesis, interrupted by setbacks, cuts and constant rewrites. A hybrid work between opera and operetta with a sophisticated and refined style, Candide was most assuredly not the work that the fans of musicals were expecting. Despite all the revisions and additions by new lyricists such as Stephen Sondheim and John Wells, the work never found its audience. And yet Bernstein worked on it until the end of his life, conducting and recording for Deutsche Grammophon a final 'definitive' version in New York and at the Barbican Centre in London in December 1989, only a few months before his death.
This new Anglo-American production, recorded live in the Barbican Centre in December 2018 on the occasion of Leonard Bernstein's centenary, is the work of director Garnett Bruce and conductor Marin Alsop, who was a student of Bernstein with whom she had a difficult relationship; the conductor, though so open-minded and generous, was uneasy with a woman at the podium. This version benefits from a golden cast with Leonardo Capalbo's Candide, Jane Archibald's Cunégonde (stratospheric 'Glitter and Be Gay') and the presence of prestigious 'veterans' such as Anne Sofie von Otter as the Old Lady and Sir Thomas Allen as Dr. Pangloss and the recitation. The whole work is conducted with precision, elegance and spirit under the exacting baton of Marin Alsop, who is one of the main architects of this re-appraisal of a work that urgently needs to be (re)discovered. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Marcus Farnsworth, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Frederick Jones, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Carmen Artaza, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Lucy McAulay, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Marcus Farnsworth, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Carmen Artaza, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Carmen Artaza, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Marcus Farnsworth, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Frederick Jones, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Carmen Artaza, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Lucy McAulay, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Liam Bonthrone, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Marcus Farnsworth, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Thomas Atkins, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Guildhall School Young Artists, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Anne Sofie von Otter, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Frederick Jones, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Liam Bonthrone, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Anne Sofie von Otter, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Anne Sofie von Otter, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Thomas Atkins, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Frederick Jones, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Anne Sofie von Otter, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Marcus Farnsworth, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Anne Sofie von Otter, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Marcus Farnsworth, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
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Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Marcus Farnsworth, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Thomas Atkins, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Frederick Jones, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Carmen Artaza, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Liam Bonthrone, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Thomas Atkins, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Anne Sofie von Otter, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Marcus Farnsworth, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Thomas Atkins, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Anne Sofie von Otter, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Marcus Farnsworth, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Carmen Artaza, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Carmen Artaza, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Katherine McIndoe, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Lucy McAuley, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Anne Sofie von Otter, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Thomas Atkins, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Carmen Artaza, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Guildhall School Young Artists, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Thomas Atkins, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Anne Sofie von Otter, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Frederick Jones, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Anne Sofie von Otter, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Marcus Farnsworth, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Frederick Jones, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Jonathan Eyers, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Anne Sofie von Otter, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Marcus Farnsworth, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Thomas Atkins, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Carmen Artaza, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Leonard Bernstein, Composer - London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Anne Sofie von Otter, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Sir Thomas Allen, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - London Symphony Chorus, Choir, MainArtist - Marin Alsop, Conductor, MainArtist - Marcus Farnsworth, MainArtist, BaritoneVocals - Jane Archibald, MainArtist, SopranoSolo - Thomas Atkins, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Leonardo Capalbo, MainArtist, TenorSolo - Carmen Artaza, MainArtist, MezzoSopranoVocals - Guildhall School Young Artists, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
Album review
With his 'comic operetta' Candide, which opened unsuccessfully on Broadway in 1956, Leonard Bernstein and his librettist Lillian Hellman used Voltaire's play to hit back at the United States' terrible era of the anti-communist witch-hunt under the aegis of the infamous Senator Joseph McCarthy.
A dizzying tribute to European music, with its brilliant and tender pastiches of opera and operetta, Candide had suffered a long and difficult genesis, interrupted by setbacks, cuts and constant rewrites. A hybrid work between opera and operetta with a sophisticated and refined style, Candide was most assuredly not the work that the fans of musicals were expecting. Despite all the revisions and additions by new lyricists such as Stephen Sondheim and John Wells, the work never found its audience. And yet Bernstein worked on it until the end of his life, conducting and recording for Deutsche Grammophon a final 'definitive' version in New York and at the Barbican Centre in London in December 1989, only a few months before his death.
This new Anglo-American production, recorded live in the Barbican Centre in December 2018 on the occasion of Leonard Bernstein's centenary, is the work of director Garnett Bruce and conductor Marin Alsop, who was a student of Bernstein with whom she had a difficult relationship; the conductor, though so open-minded and generous, was uneasy with a woman at the podium. This version benefits from a golden cast with Leonardo Capalbo's Candide, Jane Archibald's Cunégonde (stratospheric 'Glitter and Be Gay') and the presence of prestigious 'veterans' such as Anne Sofie von Otter as the Old Lady and Sir Thomas Allen as Dr. Pangloss and the recitation. The whole work is conducted with precision, elegance and spirit under the exacting baton of Marin Alsop, who is one of the main architects of this re-appraisal of a work that urgently needs to be (re)discovered. © François Hudry/Qobuz
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 38 track(s)
- Total length: 01:56:26
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Marin Alsop London Symphony Orchestra Leonardo Capalbo Jane Archibald Anne Sofie von Otter Sir Thomas Allen
- Composer: Leonard Bernstein
- Label: LSO Live
- Genre: Classical Opera
2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd 2021 London Symphony Orchestra Ltd
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