Bernstein: Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish" - Missa Brevis - The Lark
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SKU: NX.8559742

By Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Choir of the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Claire Bloom, Kelley Nassief, Marin Alsop, Maryland State Boychoir, Members of the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Paulo Mestre, and The Washington Chorus. By Leonard Bernstein. Naxos American Classics. Classical. Listening CD. Published by Naxos (NX.8559742).

UPC: 636943974223.

Three examples of Leonard Berstine's vocal art can be heard in this recording. His Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish" shuns traditional symphonic ideas in favor of an eclectic theatrical and oratorio-like form with a prominent role for speaker. For this recording Marin Alsop has returned to the work's original narrative text, heard before the 1977 revision. The Lark - heard in a concert version with added narration - derives from Lillian Hellman's adaptation of L'Alouette on the life of Joan of Arc, and it was this music that Bernstein reworked into his Missa Brevis many years later.

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