Leonard Bernstein - Bernstein - Works by the Maestro (2025)

Leonard Bernstein No figure in 20th century American classical music had as prominent or controversial a career – or did more to sell classical music to the general public as something genuinely exciting and worth getting into a sweat over – than Leonard Bernstein. For more than 30 years, from his assumption of the post of Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in 1958 until the final concerts that he conducted in obviously failing health near the end of his life in 1990, he was the most widely recognized American-born conductor in the world, and the dominant personality in American classical music as both a conductor and, to a lesser degree, a composer. A charismatic public figure, he burst three different times on the musical world – twice in classical, with a rush of success on Broadway in between – in the space of 15 years; and over a career lasting from the early '40s until the beginning of the '90s, he never lost an opportunity to advance his reputation as well as the cause of music.

Tracklist
01. IX. Finale (Live)
02. Dialogue. Dites-moi, brigadier
03. Chorus. Mais nous ne voyons pas la Carmencita
04. Carmen, sur tes pas
05. Le lieutenant! Prenez garde!
06. Entracte After Act I (Les dragons d'Alcala)
07. Vivat le toréro!
08. Toréador, en garde
09. Duet & Final Chorus. C'est toi!
10. Siam nimbi volanti dai limbi
11. II. Ibéria: c. Le matin d’un jour de fête (Live)
12. Theme. Andante
13. Var. 1. L'istesso tempo "C.A.E."
14. Var. 3. Allegretto "R.B.T."
15. Var. 6. Andantino "Ysobel"
16. IV. Finale. Allegro con spirito (Live)
17. IV. Finale. Allegro di molto (Live)
18. No. 1, Recit. Im Anfange schuf Gott Himmel und Erde – Chorus. Und der Geist Gottes schwebte auf der Fläche der Wasser (Raphael, Uriel) (Live)
19. No. 3, Recit. Und Gott machte das Firmament (Raphael) (Live)
20. No. 4, Solo. Mit Staunen sieht das Wunderwerk – Chorus. Und laut ertönt aus ihren Kehlen (Gabriel) (Live)
21. No. 5, Recit. Und Gott sprach. Es sammle sich das Wasser (Raphael) (Live)
22. No. 11, Recit. Und Gott sprach. Es sei'n Lichter an der Feste des Himmels (Uriel) (Live)
23. No. 16, Recit. Und Gott schuf große Walfische (Raphael) (Live)
24. No. 23, Recit. Und Gott schuf den Menschen (Uriel) (Live)
25. No. 31, Recit. Nun ist die erste Pflicht erfüllt (Adam, Eva) (Live)
26. IIc. Quoniam tu solus sanctus
27. IIIc. Et resurrexit
28. IIa. Lebhaft (Live)
29. IV. Lento maestoso (Live)
30. Tone Roads No. 1 (Live)
31. Hallowe'en (Live)
32. Ic. Schnell (Live)
33. IIa. Andante moderato. Sehr gemächlich (Live)
34. IIb. Nicht eilen. Sehr gemächlich (Live)
35. IIc. In Tempo I zurückkehren (Live)
36. III. Scherzo: b. Sehr getragen und gesangvoll (Live)
37. V. Finale: a. Im Tempo des Scherzos (Live)
38. V. Finale: c. Am Anfang sehr zurückgehalten (Live)
39. V. Finale: g. Sehr langsam und gedehnt (Live)
40. Id. Zeit lassen (Live)
41. IIa. Tempo di minuetto. Sehr mässig (Live)
42. IIb. L'istesso tempo (Live)
43. IIIa. Comodo. Scherzando. Ohne Hast (Live)
44. I. Langsam: a. Adagio (Live)
45. I. Langsam: b. Nicht schleppen (Live)
46. I. Langsam: c. Allegro con fuoco (Live)
47. I. Langsam: d. A tempo. Sempre l'istesso (Live)
48. I. Langsam: e. Moderato (Live)
49. III. Andante (Live)
50. II. Andante
51. III. Menuetto
52. III. Menuetto (Live)
53. IV. Finale. Presto (Live)
54. III. Menuetto
55. Ave verum corpus, K. 618 (Live)
56. II. Gloria: a. Gloria in excelsis Deo (Live)
57. II. Gloria: c. Gratias agimus tibi (Live)