Leonard Bernstein, Piano & Chamber Music by Various Artists

Leonard Bernstein

Various Artists

Leonard Bernstein, Piano & Chamber Music

Price: € 40.95
Format: CD
Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085534708
Catnr: AVI 8553411
Release date: 01 March 2019
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Label
CAvi

UPC
4260085534708

Catalogue number
AVI 8553411

Release date
01 March 2019

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LEONARD BERNSTEIN

Anniversary Edition for his 100th Birthday

… That which comes closest to love

“Leonard Bernstein was certainly not surrounded by an aura of aloofness. He enjoyed his immense popularity, although he never consciously attempted to be “everybody’s darling” and to be hailed as “Lenny” by everyone on the street.

His parents had officially named him Louis, but tended to call him Leonard. Serge Koussevitzky, his teacher and elder friend – with whom he not only shared an outstanding musical talent but also an East European Jewish family background – called him “Lenyusha”.

Bernstein himself preferred “Lenny” and thought up a pseudonym under which he wrote popular music during his youth to stay afloat: “Lenny Amber”, since “amber” is the English translation of the German word “Bernstein”. He founded a publishing house to bring out his own works and called it “Amberson Enterprises”.

Games with codes, cyphers, codenames and identities run through Bernstein’s entire output: references to himself, to people in his private circle, or to works by other composers from all periods and almost all genres from Baroque to jazz…...” (Excerpt from the Booklet Notes by Johannes Jansen)

Artist(s)

Wayne Marshall (piano)

WAYNE MARSHALL’s relationship with music began at the age of three, when he had already familiarised himself with the piano; he only began to take formal lessons a few years later. He was a student at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester from 1971 to 1979. He won a foundation scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, which was combined with the post of Organ Scholar at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and he was a postgraduate student at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna from 1983-84. Wayne’s musical forays led him to experiment in multiple genres, including church music and jazz, but he quickly found his professional voice as an organ/piano recitalist. This was also the time in which Wayne began to find his footing...

WAYNE MARSHALL’s relationship with music began at the age of three, when he had already familiarised himself with the piano; he only began to take formal lessons a few years later. He was a student at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester from 1971 to 1979. He won a foundation scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, which was combined with the post of Organ Scholar at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and he was a postgraduate student at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna from 1983-84.
Wayne’s musical forays led him to experiment in multiple genres, including church music and jazz, but he quickly found his professional voice as an organ/piano recitalist. This was also the time in which Wayne began to find his footing as a conductor, a path that would see him working with some of the world’s most accomplished orchestras. He is thus a man with two gifts and one legacy.
He was the BBC Music Magazine’s Artist of the Year in 1998. In 2004, Wayne received an Honorary Doctorate from Bournemouth University, and in 2010 became a Fellow of the Royal College of Music.
2016 he received the prestigious Golden Jubilee Award in commemoration of his services to music.

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Benyamin Nuss (piano)

BENYAMIN NUSS (*1989 in Bergisch-Gladbach) began piano lessons at the age of six He was inspired and encouraged by his father, the trombonist Ludwig Nuss, an internationally renowned jazz musician. Benyamin made classical music and jazz into his passion. Benyamin has played with many international highly reputed orchestras such as the London Symphony and Japan Philharmonic.

BENYAMIN NUSS (*1989 in Bergisch-Gladbach) began piano lessons at the age of six He was inspired and encouraged by his father, the trombonist Ludwig Nuss, an internationally renowned jazz musician.
Benyamin made classical music and jazz into his passion. Benyamin has played with many international highly reputed orchestras such as the London Symphony and Japan Philharmonic.

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Maria Kliegel (cello)

Cellist Maria Kliegel has been described as La Cellissima by Rostropovich: 'The best cellist I have heard since Jacqueline du Pré.' She has won many first prizes in national and international cello competitions and has made appearances as a soloist across the world. Her extensive repertoire has been recorded on both album and video. With around 1 million albums sold worldwide, Maria Kliegel is the market leader in the field of cello literature. Above all, she has made a name for herself through her untiring commitment to contemporary music, which includes world premieres and recordings of works by, among others, Alfred Schnittke and Sofia Gubaidulina as well as Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann's Hommage à Nelson Mandela. She has also been a jury member...

Cellist Maria Kliegel has been described as La Cellissima by Rostropovich: "The best cellist I have heard since Jacqueline du Pré." She has won many first prizes in national and international cello competitions and has made appearances as a soloist across the world.
Her extensive repertoire has been recorded on both album and video. With around 1 million albums sold worldwide, Maria Kliegel is the market leader in the field of cello literature. Above all, she has made a name for herself through her untiring commitment to contemporary music, which includes world premieres and recordings of works by, among others, Alfred Schnittke and Sofia Gubaidulina as well as Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann's Hommage à Nelson Mandela. She has also been a jury member in many competitions and is known for her active involvement in music education. Since 1986 Maria Kliegel has been teaching a master class at the Cologne University of Music.
In Schott Master Class Cello, her multimedia book and DVD project published in 2006, she explores completely new paths for learning how to play the instrument. Since 2010 the English version Using Technique and Imagination to Achieve Artistic Expression is sold worldwide.
Maria Kliegel plays a cello by Carlo Tononi, ca.1730, Venice.
http://www.maria-kliegel.com/

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Maurice Steger (recorder)

With concerts held all over the world and numerous CD recordings – many of which have been awarded the highest accolades – MAURICE STEGER (*1971) has established himself as one of the most popular soloists in the field of early music. With his vibrant manner and his personal, spontaneous and technically brilliant style, Maurice Steger has enhanced the standing of the recorder as an instrument and positioned it on an entirely new level.

With concerts held all over the world and numerous CD recordings – many of which have been awarded the highest accolades – MAURICE STEGER (*1971) has established himself as one of the most popular soloists in the field of early music. With his vibrant manner and his personal, spontaneous and technically brilliant style, Maurice Steger has enhanced the standing of the recorder as an instrument and positioned it on an entirely new level.

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Lisa Schumann (violin)

LISA SCHUMANN was born near Cologne in 1988 and had first violin lessons when she was four years old. At the age of eight she started studying with Zakhar Bron at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne. She garnered further valuable artistic counsel from renowned musicians including Daniel Sepec, Igor Ozim, Mihaela Martin, Sergei Fatkulin, Gerhard Schulz (of the Alban Berg Quartet) and Vineta Sareika (of the Artemis Quartet). Lisa Schumann has won several awards. Concert appearances have led her to perform in Austria, Switzerland, France, Japan and Germany. Lisa Schumann is concertmaster of the Cologne Kammersymphoniker and is regularly called upon to guest as concertmaster for Hamburg Camerata, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, and other ensembles. She plays a violin made by Ferdinando Gagliano in Naples (1795).

LISA SCHUMANN was born near Cologne in 1988 and had first violin lessons when she was four years old. At the age of eight she started studying with Zakhar Bron at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne. She garnered further valuable artistic counsel from renowned musicians including Daniel Sepec, Igor Ozim, Mihaela Martin, Sergei Fatkulin, Gerhard Schulz (of the Alban Berg Quartet) and Vineta Sareika (of the Artemis Quartet). Lisa Schumann has won several awards.
Concert appearances have led her to perform in Austria, Switzerland, France, Japan and Germany.
Lisa Schumann is concertmaster of the Cologne Kammersymphoniker and is regularly called upon to guest as concertmaster for Hamburg Camerata, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, and other ensembles.
She plays a violin made by Ferdinando Gagliano in Naples (1795).

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Composer(s)

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 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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Artist(s)

Wayne Marshall (piano)

Benyamin Nuss (piano)

Maria Kliegel (cello)

Maurice Steger (recorder)

Lisa Schumann (violin)

Composer(s)

Leonard Bernstein

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