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Brahms & Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein, Johannes Brahms

Jaap van Zweden / George Pieterson

Brahms & Bernstein

Price: € 12.95
Format: CD
Label: Fineline Legacy
UPC: 0608917240320
Catnr: FL 72403
Release date: 01 February 2005
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Fineline Legacy
UPC
0608917240320
Catalogue number
FL 72403
Release date
01 February 2005
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Brahms en Bernstein verfijnd vertolkt door Jaap van Zweden, George Pieterson en het Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
Dit album presenteert een bijzondere uitvoering van Brahms' klarinet kwintet en 22 songs uit West Side Story van Leonard Bernstein.

Jaap van Zweden is een Nederlands dirigent en violist. Hij is tevens aangesteld als de nieuwe muzikaal directeur van het New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Momenteel is hij dirigent bij het Dallas Symphony Orchestra en het Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Hij begint zijn nieuwe functie in 2018. Van Zweden werd bekroond met vele prijzen, waaronder de Amerikaanse Conductor of the Year Award 2012 en in de Radio 4 Prijs (2010).

Van Zweden kende George Pieterson goed, omdat Pieterson solo-klarinettist was in het Concertgebouworkest, waar Van Zweden jarenlang dirigent was. Beide bekwame musici spelen Brahms' klarinet kwintet dat wordt beschouwd als een van Brahms' mooiste werken. Daarnaast spelen Van Zweden en het Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet een speciaal arrangement van 22 songs uit West Side Story van Leonard Bernstein voor viool en saxofoonkwartet.

Artist(s)

Jaap van Zweden (violin)

Born in Amsterdam in 1960, Jaap Van Zweden began his musical career as a violinist, becoming at nineteen the youngest ever concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.  In 1997, van Zweden made his decision to conduct full time, played his last concert as a violinist with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and was named the chief conductor of the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra where he remained until 2003. In 2000, he added the music directorship of the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague to his credits, a post he held until 2005. Jaap van Zweden began his third season as music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in September 2010. His commitment to the orchestra was recently extended through the 2015-2016 season. Under his...
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Born in Amsterdam in 1960, Jaap Van Zweden began his musical career as a violinist, becoming at nineteen the youngest ever concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In 1997, van Zweden made his decision to conduct full time, played his last concert as a violinist with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and was named the chief conductor of the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra where he remained until 2003. In 2000, he added the music directorship of the Residentie Orchestra of The Hague to his credits, a post he held until 2005.
Jaap van Zweden began his third season as music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in September 2010. His commitment to the orchestra was recently extended through the 2015-2016 season. Under his direction, the orchestra is enhancing its programming and community outreach, continuing to champion new composers, and raising its national profile with an annual residency in Vail, CO and a 2011 appearance at Carnegie Hall in the inaugural Spring for Music Festival. Concurrently with his post in Dallas, van Zweden’s other titled positions include chief conductor and artistic director of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (2005-2012), and chief conductor of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra of Belgium (2008-2012).
Under van Zweden’s leadership, the DSO has established an ongoing residency at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival through the summer of 2012, and debuted five world premiere works over two seasons as part of the DSO’s Texas Instruments Classical Series. Throughout the past seasons, the orchestra, under van Zweden's leadership, has received lavish praise from notable media including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Musical America, The Financial Times, BBC Music Magazine, The Dallas Morning News and many others. In a December 2009 article in The LA Times, Mark Swed named van Zweden one of the”Faces to Watch“ in 2010, noting van Zweden “knows how to generate tense, tactile excitement in all kinds of music.” Van Zweden has also become a highly sought-after guest artist since the DSO introduced him to US audiences in 2007. During the 2010-2011 season, van Zweden debuts with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, San Paulo Symphony, Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra and the Monte Carlo Philharmonic. He makes his much-anticipated fourth guest appearance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and returns to guest conduct with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Saint Louis Symphony and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
He also has guested with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre National du Capital de Toulouse, Munich Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, Hong Kong Philharmonic and Tokyo Philharmonic, among others.

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George Pieterson (clarinet)

Johan Kracht (violin)

Ken Hakii (viola)

Jean Decroos (cello)

Composer(s)

Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the 'Three Bs' of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.   Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become...
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Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the "Three Bs" of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow.
Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire. Brahms, an uncompromising perfectionist, destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished.
Brahms has been considered, by his contemporaries and by later writers, as both a traditionalist and an innovator. His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Classical masters. While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his contribution and craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar. The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms's works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers. Within his meticulous structures is embedded, however, a highly romantic nature.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein was one of the most iconic American composers and conductors of the 20th century, and was among the first American musicians who gained worldwide recognition. He actually made his breakthrough as a conductor by chance, when he suddenly had to stand in for the ailing Bruno Walter for a concert by the New York Philharmonic in 1943. The concert, which was broadcast live on radio, received critical acclaim from the press. Bernstein would soon become a sought-after guest conductor. From 1958 till 1969, Bernstein was principal conductor of the New York Philharmonic, with which he performed amongst others the complete symphonies of Mahler, which sparked a renewed interest in the music of the Austrian composer in the United States. He...
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Leonard Bernstein was one of the most iconic American composers and conductors of the 20th century, and was among the first American musicians who gained worldwide recognition.
He actually made his breakthrough as a conductor by chance, when he suddenly had to stand in for the ailing Bruno Walter for a concert by the New York Philharmonic in 1943. The concert, which was broadcast live on radio, received critical acclaim from the press. Bernstein would soon become a sought-after guest conductor.
From 1958 till 1969, Bernstein was principal conductor of the New York Philharmonic, with which he performed amongst others the complete symphonies of Mahler, which sparked a renewed interest in the music of the Austrian composer in the United States. He was also an advocate of the music of American composers, in particular that of his close friend Aaron Copland. Bernstein recorded nearly all of his orchestral works, and paid much attention to his music in his popular television series Young People’s Concerts, in which he introduced a young audience to classical music.
As a composer, Bernstein is primarily known for his accessible theatre works such as Wonderful Town, Candide and The West Side Story, which still is his most popular work. He also composed three symphonies and several shorter chamber works. In his music he fused elements of Jewish music, theatre music and jazz with those of composers like Copland, Stravinsky and Gershwin.

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01.
Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115: Allegro
11:53
(Johannes Brahms) Jaap van Zweden, George Pieterson, Johan Kracht, Ken Hakii, Jean Decroos
02.
Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115: Adagio
10:53
(Johannes Brahms) Jaap van Zweden, George Pieterson, Johan Kracht, Ken Hakii, Jean Decroos
03.
Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115: Andantino - Presto Non Assai, Ma Con Sentimento
04:40
(Johannes Brahms) Jaap van Zweden, George Pieterson, Johan Kracht, Ken Hakii, Jean Decroos
04.
Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op. 115: Con Moto
08:14
(Johannes Brahms) Jaap van Zweden, George Pieterson, Johan Kracht, Ken Hakii, Jean Decroos
05.
West Side Story: Overture
04:44
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
06.
West Side Story: Jet song
00:47
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
07.
West Side Story: Dance At The Gym: Blues
01:50
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
08.
West Side Story: Somewhere
02:21
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
09.
West Side Story: One Hand, One Heart
01:21
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
10.
West Side Story: Dance At The Gym: Promenade
01:09
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
11.
West Side Story: Dance At The Gym: Mambo
02:16
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
12.
West Side Story: Maria
01:44
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
13.
West Side Story: I Feel Pretty
02:09
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
14.
West Side Story: Maria
02:37
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
15.
West Side Story: Cool
01:13
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
16.
West Side Story: America
02:24
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
17.
West Side Story: One Hand, One Heart
03:08
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
18.
West Side Story: Gee, Officer Krupke
02:06
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
19.
West Side Story: Tonight
03:54
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
20.
West Side Story: A Boy Like That
01:31
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
21.
West Side Story: I Have A Love
02:39
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
22.
West Side Story: The Rumble
01:54
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
23.
West Side Story: Finale
01:51
(Leonard Bernstein) Jaap van Zweden, Amsterdam Saxophone Quartet
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