Artist
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein is a conductor artist from Massachusetts, USA. 22 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Conductor · Massachusetts, USA · Best conductor albums
- 22
- Releases
- 1961–2018
- Active years
Artist
Leonard Bernstein is a conductor artist from Massachusetts, USA. 22 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Conductor · Massachusetts, USA · Best conductor albums
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Wonderful Town
2018
Ode to Freedom: Bernstein in Berlin: Beethoven Symphony no. 9
1990
Symphonien nos. 5 & 7
1989
Bernstein: West Side Story Symphonic Dances and Songs
1989
Symphonie no. 2
1988
Symphony no. 5 / Pohjola's Daughter
1988
CBS Great Performances, Volume 39: Appalachian Spring Suite / Fanfare for the Common Man / El Salón México / Danzón Cubano
1988
Fauré: Requiem / Bernstein: Chichester Psalms (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra feat. conductor: Richard Hickox)
1987
Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 / The Unanswered Question
1987
Appalachian Spring / Rodeo / Billy the Kid / Fanfare for the Common Man
1987
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms / Copland: In the beginning and Three Motets / Barber: Agnus Dei
1987
Bernstein Conducts Bernstein (New York Philharmonic feat. conductor: Leonard Bernstein)
1987
Symphony No. 3 / Quiet City
1986
Symphony No. 7
1986
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / An American in Paris / Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite (Columbia Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic feat. conductor: Leonard Bernstein)
1986
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
1983
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / Barber: Adagio for Strings / Copland: Appalachian Spring
1983
Symphony No. 5
1980
The Planets
1973
Bernstein: Le Sacre du printemps
1972
On the Beautiful Blue Danube
1969
West Side Story (1961 film cast)
1961
Leonard Bernstein, a unique source of creative energy in America’s music throughout his entire adult lifetime, was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on August 25, 1918. He was given piano lessons as a boy and had his pre-college education at the Garrison and Boston Latin schools. Going on to Harvard University, he worked with Walter Piston, Edward Burlingame Hill, and A. Tillman Merritt, among others. By the time of his graduation, in 1939, he had made an unofficial conducting debut (his own incidental music to The Birds), and directed and performed in Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock. Later, at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he studied piano with Isabella Vengerova, conducting with Fritz Reiner, and composition with Randall Thompson. In 1949 he became a student of the Boston Symphony’s reigning conductor, Serge Koussevitzky, at Tanglewood, and he was subsequently named his conducting assistant. Mr. Bernstein’s first permanent conducting post, however, was as Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, to which he was named in 1943. That was an important year for him both as a composer and as a conductor. Not only did he win the New York Music…