BERNSTEIN, L.: Arias and Barcarolles / BARBER, S.: The School for Scandal / DIAMOND, D.: Elegy in Memory of Maurice Rave

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BERNSTEIN, L.: Arias and Barcarolles / BARBER, S.: The School for Scandal / DIAMOND, D.: Elegy in Memory of Maurice Rave
Author : Bernstein, Leonard

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BERNSTEIN, L.: Arias and Barcarolles / BARBER, S.: The School for Scandal / DIAMOND, D.: Elegy in Memory of Maurice Rave [CD]
(Date: 2012-05-03)
Price($): HK$71 (US$)
Publisher:Naxos International (Far East)

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This triumvirate of composers represents an essentially lyrical impulse in American music. Leonard Bernsteins Arias and Barcarolles was completed in 1988 but had existed in some form since 1955. The cycle of songs about love and marriage was written for voice and piano (four-hands) but orchestrated, under Bernsteins supervision, by Bright Sheng, and premied by Gerard Schwarz. Eclectic, exciting, jazzy, and Mahlerian, it reflects Bernstein in all his multi-faceted glory. Barbers concert overture is a vibrant work, fizzing with energy, whilst Diamonds Elegy offers a poignant, noble and at times violent lament for Ravel.