Bernstein: Dybbuk, Fancy Free / Mogrelia, Nashville Symphony

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
November 21, 2006
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BERNSTEIN
    • PERFORMER
      Mogrelia, Nashville So, Risinger, Ulrich
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 21, 2006
    • UPC
      636943928028
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8559280
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Part I: I. Invocation and Trance

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Mel Ulrich, Mark Risinger

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    2. Part I: II. The Fathers (David and Jonathan) - The Pledge

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    3. Part I: III. Variation O - Messengers (Angelic Messengers)

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    4. Part I: IIIa. Kabbalah

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Mel Ulrich, Mark Risinger

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    5. Part I: IV. Dream

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    6. Part II: IVa. Kabbalah

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Mel Ulrich, Mark Risinger

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    7. Part II: V. Variation A

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    8. Part II: VI. Variation M

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    9. Part II: VII. Variation N

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    10. Part II: VIII. Variation X

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    11. Part II: IX. Variation Y

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    12. Part II: X. Variation Z

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    13. Part III: XI. Alchemy - Variation O

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    14. Part III: XII. Leah (Maidens' Dance)

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    15. Part III: XIII. Possession

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    16. Part III: XIV. Demon

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    17. Part III: XV. Pas de deux

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    18. Part III: XVI. Exorcism

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Mel Ulrich, Mark Risinger

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    19. Part III: XVII. The Community (Reprise and Coda)

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Mel Ulrich, Mark Risinger

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    20. Big Stuff

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Performer: Abby Burke, Roger Spencer, Stephen Kummer, Samuel D. Bacco

    21. Enter Three Sailors

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    22. Scene at the Bar

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    23. Enter Two Girls

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    24. Pas de deux

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    25. Competition Scene

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    26. 3 Dance Variations: Variation 1: Galop

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    27. 3 Dance Variations: Variation 2: Waltz

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    28. 3 Dance Variations: Variation 3: Danzon

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    29. Finale

      Composer: Leonard Bernstein

      Ensemble: Nashville Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia


Not too many listeners are Dybbuk admirers, and even Bernstein's supporters find this music less interesting than much else that he wrote. The fact that the music resorts to some dodecaphonic and numerological compositional techniques isn't a point in its favor, though in actual sonority it's entirely characteristic of Bernstein, and at this late date it's easy to hear that his personality inhabits every bar. If there's a problem with the piece, it likely stems from the fact that the overall impression it makes is a bit glum, lacking in that special snap that makes his best work so memorable. Certainly the supernatural subject is a dark one, and it calls forth plenty of eerie, atmospheric scoring; but the actual musical material seems stretched thinly over the work's 45 minutes (48, if you're the composer). Bernstein recorded the complete work for Sony, but broke it up into a pair of suites for his DG remakes. I do prefer the original; the music is what it is, and over time it has grown on me--and might well do so for you too.


Fancy Free of course is delightful, and often recorded, but this performance holds its own with the best--and I frankly prefer Andrew Mogrelia to the composer in Dybbuk. He's just that much livelier, and the Nashville Symphony sounds as inside the idiom as the New York Philharmonic of several decades' past. This newcomer also is better recorded than Bernstein's performances either on Sony or DG, and the excellent version of "Hot Stuff" that opens Fancy Free also is a plus. If you're a Bernstein fan, you will certainly want this.
--David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com