Bernstein - Broadway to Hollywood
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Label: Somm
Cat No: ARIADNE5002
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 27th July 2018
Contents
Works
CandideOn the Town: 3 Dance Episodes
West Side Story: Symphonic Dances
Artists
Hannover PhilharmonieConductor
Iain SutherlandWorks
CandideOn the Town: 3 Dance Episodes
West Side Story: Symphonic Dances
Artists
Hannover PhilharmonieConductor
Iain SutherlandAbout
Five of Bernstein’s era-defining works for Broadway and Hollywood revel in his inexhaustible gift for memorable melodies, his vivid sense of drama, infectious playfulness and captivating sense of poetry.
The effervescent Overture to Bernstein’s 1956 re-telling of Voltaire’s Candide has long been a concert hall favourite. Brilliant, uplifting and thrillingly orchestrated, it brims with memorable tunes threaded together with masterful aplomb.
The Symphonic Suite drawn from his score for Elia Kazan’s Oscar-laden 1954 film On the Waterfront is a heavyweight exercise in evocative and atmospheric music, its muscle and menace transformed into a final, redemptive hymn to individual freedom.
A decade earlier, Bernstein’s first extended theatre music – for Jerome Robbins’ ballet Fancy Free – made brilliant use of a symphony orchestra’s resources with stylish infusions of jazz-based and Latin-influenced concert music.
On the Town pays tribute to the city that never sleeps in an exuberant tale of three sailors finding love on 24-hour shore-leave in New York. Its Two Dance Episodes borrow themes from Fancy Free (on which it was based) to exhilarating effect.
Bernstein’s theatre masterpiece West Side Story transformed the American musical overnight in 1957. With its great trajectory from C major to E flat and back again, it carries itself with operatic immediacy. The Symphonic Dances drawn from the score exalt in the power of an orchestra in full, forceful flow.
Robert Matthew-Walker, author of Broadway to Hollywood: the Musical and the Cinema, provides insightful booklet notes that illuminate Bernstein the man, the composer and his wonderfully inimitable music.
Bernstein’s Piano Sonata was featured on SOMM’s acclaimed collection of Great American Sonatas played by Nathan Williamson.
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