Copland: Symphony No. 3; Quiet City
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Composer: Aaron CoplandConductor: Leonard Bernstein
Performer: Thomas Stacy
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic
Performer: Philip Smith [1]
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- Symphony No. 3: 1. Molto moderato
- Symphony No. 3: 2. Allegro molto
- Symphony No. 3: 3. Andantino quasi allegretto
- Symphony No. 3: 4. Molto deliberator (Fanfare) - Allegro risoluto
- Quiet City
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Free Music Review: The best Bernstein reading of a nearly great work
Hit: 5 Stars
Copland met a sad end as the result of Alzheimer's, which set in fairly early (when he was about 70, I believe) but was carefully hidden from the public. Bernstein had been his lifelong champion, of course, and here he gives an elegaic, almost melancholy reading of the Third Symphony that is about a minute slower in each movement than his earlier, excellent version from 1966 with the same NY Phil.
There's no comparison betwen the two, given how much more detailed and expressive the 1985 DG version is, and how much better it is recorded. The Third just misses being a great work. It is in Copland's most populist idiom, the same as one hears in Appalachian Spring, but the material is thinner, less organized, ultimately not all that compelling despite many beautiful moments. Bernstein makes the very best of what's there, and his reading of Quiet City is incomparable--it brings tears to one's eyes. This recording stands as a wonderful, if somewhat sad, memorial to a great musical partnership.
Copland: Symphony No. 3; Quiet City Poster
Late in his career, Leonard Bernstein returned to the greatest orchestral work by his lifelong friend, Aaron Copland, with a performance that eclipsed all others, including Bernstein's own previous recording of the Symphony no. 3 on Sony. Though Copland's stock still hadn't climbed back to its present height, Bernstein gave the music a grandeur that made you forget how much of a clich? the Fanfare for the Common Man--which was worked into the finale of the Third--can be. In fact, many of the world-stopping qualities Bernstein brought to his second Mahler cycle for Deutsche Grammophon seem much in evidence here, with the New York Philharmonic playing as though its collective life depended on it. --David Patrick StearnsClassical Music CDs
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