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A best-selling collection of some of the most popular Adagios ever written for strings, this album is a staple of Sony's catalog and a logical choice for the Masterworks Expanded Edition. While this CD corresponds to the same title in the Great Performances series, its sound is remastered and the additional tracks make it a better value for the price. Leonard Bernstein and the strings of the New York Philharmonic are elegiac and solemn in these performances, extremely slow and often more lush than is really necessary. However, this broad, hyper-Romantic approach is part of Bernstein's controversial legacy, and his exaggerated interpretations of Barber's Adagio, Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Tchaikovsky's Andante cantabile, and Mahler's Adagietto from the Symphony No. 5 are so entrenched in the public's imagination that dissenting criticism is almost pointless. Even so, Bernstein's labored versions of Mozart's Romance from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and Vivaldi's Largo from the "Winter" Concerto are still open for debate. Recorded at Columbia Studios, Avery Fisher Hall, and the Manhattan Center between 1963 and 1976, the varied acoustics and limitations of the analog tapes are substantially improved through Direct Stream Digital and SBM Direct.
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John McClure, Producer - SAMUEL BARBER (1910-1981), Composer - Richard Killough, Producer - Leonard Bernstein, Conductor - Leonard Bernstein, Performer - New York Philharmonic, Performer
Originally released 1971 Sony Music Entertainment
John McClure, Producer - Leonard Bernstein, Conductor - Leonard Bernstein, Performer - Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - New York Philharmonic, Performer
(P) 1983 Sony Music Entertainment
Richard Killough, Producer - Leonard Bernstein, Conductor - Leonard Bernstein, Performer - Ralph Vaughan Williams, Composer - New York Philharmonic, Performer
(P) 1971 Sony Music Entertainment
John McClure, Producer - Leonard Bernstein, Conductor - Leonard Bernstein, Performer - PETER TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893), Composer - New York Philharmonic, Performer
(P) 1983 Sony Music Entertainment
Gustav Mahler, Composer - John McClure, Producer - Leonard Bernstein, Conductor - Leonard Bernstein, Performer - New York Philharmonic, Performer
Originally released 1964 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
John McClure, Producer - Leonard Bernstein, Conductor - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Composer - New York Philharmonic, Performer
1978 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
John McClure, Producer - Alceo Toni, Arranger - Leonard Bernstein, Conductor - Leonard Bernstein, Harpsichord - Leonard Bernstein, Performer - John Corigliano, Violin - Antonio Vivaldi, Composer - New York Philharmonic, Performer
Originally released 1965 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Richard Killough, Producer - Leonard Bernstein, Conductor - Leonard Bernstein, Performer - PETER TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893), Composer - New York Philharmonic, Performer
(P) 1976SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Album review
A best-selling collection of some of the most popular Adagios ever written for strings, this album is a staple of Sony's catalog and a logical choice for the Masterworks Expanded Edition. While this CD corresponds to the same title in the Great Performances series, its sound is remastered and the additional tracks make it a better value for the price. Leonard Bernstein and the strings of the New York Philharmonic are elegiac and solemn in these performances, extremely slow and often more lush than is really necessary. However, this broad, hyper-Romantic approach is part of Bernstein's controversial legacy, and his exaggerated interpretations of Barber's Adagio, Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Tchaikovsky's Andante cantabile, and Mahler's Adagietto from the Symphony No. 5 are so entrenched in the public's imagination that dissenting criticism is almost pointless. Even so, Bernstein's labored versions of Mozart's Romance from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and Vivaldi's Largo from the "Winter" Concerto are still open for debate. Recorded at Columbia Studios, Avery Fisher Hall, and the Manhattan Center between 1963 and 1976, the varied acoustics and limitations of the analog tapes are substantially improved through Direct Stream Digital and SBM Direct.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 8 track(s)
- Total length: 01:13:06
- Main artists: Leonard Bernstein
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Sony Classical
- Genre: Classical
(P) 1976, 1978, 1983 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT / Originally released 1964, 1965, 1971 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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