{"product_id":"koussevitzky-conducts-bernstein-hanson-shostakovich-194649-pasc573","title":"KOUSSEVITZKY conducts Bernstein, Hanson \u0026 Shostakovich (1946\/49) - PASC573","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eBERNSTEIN \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 2, 'The Age of Anxiety'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSHOSTAKOVICH \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSymphony No. 9\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eHANSON \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eSerenade for Flute, Harp \u0026amp; Strings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eLive broadcast recordings, 1946\/49\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 69:57\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eLeonard Bernstein\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e, piano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eBoston Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eSerge Koussevitzky\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PASC573.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\nThe unsettling years immediately following the end of World War II are\nreflected in the two main pieces on this release.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nShostakovich’s Symphony No. 9 received its première on 3 Nov 1945 in\nLeningrad. It was the composer’s first post war symphony and was intended\nas the third of a war trilogy. The first two parts of the trilogy, the much\nlonger 7\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e and 8\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e symphonies depicted the heroic\nstruggle of the Soviet people against Nazism. This final part was\nsupposedly a celebration of victory but actually turns out to be more of a\ncelebration of life. Shostakovich himself said a ‘bright mood\npredominates’, and even described it as a ‘merry little piece’ that\nmusicians would enjoy but critics would ‘delight in blasting’. Serge\nKoussevitzky invited Shostakovich to the US to conduct it ultimately it was\nKoussevitzky himself who would deliver the American première at the\nBerkshire festival on 25 July 1946. The modest proportions of the 9 \u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e symphony compared to the two previous symphonies was\nimmediately apparent with the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e commenting that it\nwas ‘prevailingly gay’ with ‘no pretences to the epic’. Shostakovich was\nright about the critics: the \u003cem\u003eNew York World Telegram\u003c\/em\u003e grumbled that\n‘The Russian composer should not have expressed his feelings about the\ndefeat of Nazism in such a childish manner.’ A second performance, a few\nweeks later, was broadcast nationally by ABC and is the earliest extant\nlive performance of the symphony.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nBernstein’s Symphony No.2 was based on W. H. Auden’s poem ‘The Age of\nAnxiety’. The poem, dealing with man’s shifting place in a turbulent and\never-changing world, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1948. Leonard\nBernstein described the poem as ‘one of the most shattering examples of\npure virtuosity in the history of British poetry’ and recalled that it\n‘began immediately to affect me’ on first reading and that composing a\nsymphony based on it ‘acquired an almost compulsive quality.’ In part one\nthe story revolves around four characters drowning their sorrows in a bar,\nstruggling to find meaning and direction in an ever more bewildering world.\nPart two finds the same people at a soulless party which no one is really\nenjoying, but this spiritual emptiness eventually gives way to an\naffirmation of faith and hope. Bernstein dedicated the symphony to Serge\nKoussevitzky marking the end of his 25-year reign as conductor of the\nBoston Symphony Orchestra. The symphony premièred on 8 April 1949 with this\nbroadcast on the following day.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nHoward Hanson’s Serenade for Flute, Harp \u0026amp; Strings, Op. 35 premiered\nApril 1946 at Eastman School of Music in Rochester during an American Music\nFestival. Hanson was the Director of the Eastman School of Music between\n1924 and 1964 and although little known today his music was performed by\nthe New York Philharmonic, the NBC Symphony, the Boston Symphony and the\nMetropolitan Opera. His opera Merry Mount is available on PACO108, his 4 \u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e symphony on both PASC536 and PASC292 and his 5\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e\nsymphony on PASC332.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eKOUSSEVITZKY \u003c\/b\u003econducts Bernstein, Hanson \u0026amp; Shostakovich\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. \u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003eHANSON\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003e  Serenade for Flute, Harp and Strings\u003c\/span\u003e, Op. 35  (6:11)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorges Laurent\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eflute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBernard Zichera\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eharp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 17px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBERNSTEIN  \u003c\/b\u003eSymphony No. 2 - 'The Age of Anxiety'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Part 1 - The Prologue: Lento moderato  (2:20)\u003cbr\u003e3. The Seven Ages: 1. L'istesso tempo  (0:58)\u003cbr\u003e4. The Seven Ages: 2. Poco più mosso  (1:21)\u003cbr\u003e5. The Seven Ages: 3. Largamente, ma mosso  (1:21)\u003cbr\u003e6. The Seven Ages: 4. Più mosso  (0:55)\u003cbr\u003e7. The Seven Ages: 5. Agitato  (0:46)\u003cbr\u003e8. The Seven Ages: 6. Poco meno mosso  (1:01)\u003cbr\u003e9. The Seven Ages: 7. L'istesso tempo  (1:49)\u003cbr\u003e10. The Seven Stages: 8. Molto moderato, ma movendo  (1:44)\u003cbr\u003e11. The Seven Stages: 9. Più mosso (Tempo di Valse)  (1:10)\u003cbr\u003e12. The Seven Stages: 10. Più mosso  (0:27)\u003cbr\u003e13. The Seven Stages: 11. L'istesso tempo  (0:52)\u003cbr\u003e14. The Seven Stages: 12. Poco più vivace  (0:15)\u003cbr\u003e15. The Seven Stages: 13. L'istesso tempo  (0:47)\u003cbr\u003e16. The Seven Stages: 14. Poco più vivace  (0:32)\u003cbr\u003e17. Part 2 - The Dirge: Largo  (5:11)\u003cbr\u003e18. The Masque: Extremely Fast  (4:28)\u003cbr\u003e19. 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