Track Listings (3) - Disc #1| All Artists: Bruckner, Bernstein, Nyp Title: Symphony 9 Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Sony Original Release Date: 1/1/1992 Re-Release Date: 7/28/1992 Genre: Classical Style: Symphonies Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 074644754223 |
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CD ReviewsThe greatest composer Bernstein couldn't conduct Santa Fe Listener | Santa Fe, NM USA | 10/01/2005 (3 out of 5 stars) "In a recent interview James Levine commented that there were only two composers he would never conduct: Shostakovich and Bruckner. The reason he gave was that he had no idea how to add anythng new that others hadn't already said better. Bernstein admitted as much when he told an interviewer that Karajan had already said all that could be said about Bruckner (a rare compliment considering the source.) Even so, he gave the Ninth Sym. two tries, once on DG with the Vienna Phil. and here with his own NY Phil. on Sony. Both performances misfire. Bernstein can't find a way to combine his own emotionalism and romantic grandiosity with Bruckner's, and the result feels awkward and unsympathetic. Even as a document of a great conductor offering some unusual ideas, this CD merits only passing interest. It's like hearing Furtwangler in Ravel or Bartok. " The Last of the Royal Editions Michael B. Richman | Portland, Maine USA | 07/07/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic's 1969 recording of Bruckner's 9th Symphony (Nowak Edition) is one of the last titles available in the classic Sony Royal Edition series. While many of these titles have been reissued in the Bernstein Century series, this one has not, which probably accounts for its current availability. While Bernstein was not generally thought of as a Brucknerian, I have always enjoyed this account, and rank it favorably with other versions of the 9th I own by Jochum (EMI and DG), Wand, Walter and van Beinum. If you are interested in this title, I would move fast as most Bernstein Royal Edition titles are now out of print, and most likely this one will suffer the same fate shortly." Lenny in unfamiliar territory David Goldman | 12/27/2007 (2 out of 5 stars) "The celestial vision and final certainty of Bruckner was beyond Leonard Bernstein, or perhaps Bernstein was too far beyond and above Bruckner, a simple man who Knew what he Knew. More than ten years after, I still remember my initial disappointment, and mounting amusement, when I played the Bernstein CD. The only worth of Bernstein's parody-like interpretation is comparative, and as a lesson that even geniuses have their limits. The best starting point for appreciating this greatest of symphonies is the version by Carlo Maria Giulini, who proceeded with perfect humility to capture Bruckner's vision of heaven, the closest I'll probably ever get to it."
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