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Bernstein Century - The Age Of Anxiety, Serenade

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Artist
Bernstein, Foss, Stern, Nyp
Format
CD
Label
Sony Masterworks
Released
Aug 30, 2012
Catalog #
SONY 60558
UPC
074646055823

About

Sony are now reissuing the earlier New York recordings of the Bernstein symphonies in the Bernstein Century Edition. In the case of No. 2 this is the very first (1950) mono version, with Lukas Foss as the piano soloist. Subtitled The Age of Anxiety and based on Auden's poem, this concertante work shows the composer at his most eclectic, with the stylistic contrasts emphasized by the clear, forward mono sound, the "Dirge" stridently dissonant, and the jazzy exuberance of the "Masque" contrasting boldly with the closing "Epilogue". Foss is dazzlingly idiomatic but he is too forwardly recorded; and the same has to be said of the coupled (1956) mono performance of the Serenade after Plato's "Symposium", with the violin soloist Isaac Stern on top form and naturally attuned to the score, but with the solo violin balanced way out front and the orchestral sound unrefined.

-- Ivan March, Gramophone [12/1998]

Tracklist 11 tracks

  1. 1 Part I: The Prologue: Lento moderato - 02:20
    Track
    1
    Title
    Part I: The Prologue: Lento moderato -
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Leonard Bernstein
    Performer
    Lukas Foss
    Ensemble
    New York Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Leonard Bernstein
  2. 2 Part I: The Seven Ages: Variation 1 - Variation 7 08:23
    Track
    2
    Title
    Part I: The Seven Ages: Variation 1 - Variation 7
    Duration
    08:23
    Composer
    Leonard Bernstein
    Performer
    Lukas Foss
    Ensemble
    New York Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Leonard Bernstein
  3. 3 Part I: The Seven Stages: Variation 8 - Variation 14 05:52
    Track
    3
    Title
    Part I: The Seven Stages: Variation 8 - Variation 14
    Duration
    05:52
    Composer
    Leonard Bernstein
    Performer
    Lukas Foss
    Ensemble
    New York Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Leonard Bernstein
  4. 4 Part II: The Dirge: Largo - 05:38
    Track
    4
    Title
    Part II: The Dirge: Largo -
    Duration
    05:38
    Composer
    Leonard Bernstein
    Performer
    Lukas Foss
    Ensemble
    New York Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Leonard Bernstein
  5. 5 Part II: The Masque: Extremely fast - 04:27
    Track
    5
    Title
    Part II: The Masque: Extremely fast -
    Duration
    04:27
    Composer
    Leonard Bernstein
    Performer
    Lukas Foss
    Ensemble
    New York Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Leonard Bernstein
  6. 6 Part II: The Epilogue: L'istesso tempo 05:20
    Track
    6
    Title
    Part II: The Epilogue: L'istesso tempo
    Duration
    05:20
    Composer
    Leonard Bernstein
    Performer
    Lukas Foss
    Ensemble
    New York Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Leonard Bernstein
  7. 7 I. Phaedrus - Pausanias: Lento - Allegro 07:00
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Phaedrus - Pausanias: Lento - Allegro
    Duration
    07:00
    Composer
    Leonard Bernstein
    Performer
    Isaac Stern, Lukas Foss
    Ensemble
    Symphony of the Air, New York Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Leonard Bernstein
  8. 8 II. Aristophanes: Allegretto 04:18
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Aristophanes: Allegretto
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Leonard Bernstein
    Performer
    Isaac Stern, Lukas Foss
    Ensemble
    Symphony of the Air, New York Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Leonard Bernstein
  9. 9 III. Eryximachus: Presto 01:35
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Eryximachus: Presto
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    Leonard Bernstein
    Performer
    Isaac Stern, Lukas Foss
    Ensemble
    Symphony of the Air, New York Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Leonard Bernstein
  10. 10 IV. Agathon: Adagio 07:34
    Track
    10
    Title
    IV. Agathon: Adagio
    Duration
    07:34
    Composer
    Leonard Bernstein
    Performer
    Isaac Stern, Lukas Foss
    Ensemble
    Symphony of the Air, New York Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Leonard Bernstein
  11. 11 V. Socrates - Alcibiades: Molto tenuto - Allegro molto vivace 10:30
    Track
    11
    Title
    V. Socrates - Alcibiades: Molto tenuto - Allegro molto vivace
    Duration
    10:30
    Composer
    Leonard Bernstein
    Performer
    Isaac Stern
    Ensemble
    Symphony of the Air, New York Philharmonic
    Conductor
    Leonard Bernstein