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Leonard Bernstein - Copland, E. Power Biggs - Zino Francescatti, New York Philharmonic* ‎– Organ Symphony - Serenade For Violin And Orchestra

Label:
Columbia Masterworks ‎– MS 7058
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Country:
US
Released:
1967
Genre:
Classical
Style:
Modern, Contemporary, Neo-Classical

Tracklist

    –Copland*     Symphony For Organ And Orchestra

    Organ – E. Power Biggs

   
A1     –     I - Prelude: Andante 6/8     5:56
A2     –     II - Scherzo: Allegro Molto 3/4; Moderato 4/4     7:32
A3     –     III - Finale: Lento; Allegro Moderato 4/4     11:02
    –Bernstein*     "Serenade" For Solo Violin, String Orchestra, Harp And Percussion (After Plato's "Symposium")

    Violin – Zino Francescatti

   
B1     –     I - Phaedrus; Pausanias (Lento; Allegro)     6:57
B2     –     II - Aristophanes (Allegretto)     4:06
B3     –     III - Eryximachus (Presto)     1:24
B4     –     IV - Agathon (Adagio)     6:53
B5     –     V - Socrates; Alcibiades (Molto Tenuto; Allegro Molto Vivace)     10:45

Companies etc

    Recorded At – Manhattan Center
    Recorded At – Philharmonic Hall, New York

Credits

    Conductor – Leonard Bernstein
    Engineer – Fred Plaut, Raymond Moore*
    Liner Notes – Phillip Ramey
    Orchestra – New York Philharmonic*
    Producer – John McClure

Notes

Side A recorded 3.1.1967 in NYC philharmonic Hall
Side B recorded 22.7.1965 in Manhattan Center NYC

Title printed on spine. Manufactured by Columbia Records/CBS Inc. Printed in U.S.A.

Grey white printed Two-Eye Label
Barcode and Other Identifiers

    Matrix / Runout (Stamped Side 1): XXSM119302-3B
    Matrix / Runout (Stamped Side 2): XXSM119303-1B

E. Power Biggs
Real Name:
Edward George Power Biggs
Profile:
English organist and harpsichordist.

*29 March 1906 in Westcliff-on-Sea, England, UK
†10 March 1977 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Biggs was born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England; a year later, the family moved to the Isle of Wight. Biggs was trained in London at the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied with G.D. Cunningham. Biggs emigrated to the United States in 1930. In 1932, he took up a post at Christ Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he lived for the rest of his life.

Biggs did much to bring the classical pipe organ back to prominence, and was in the forefront of the mid-20th-century resurgence of interest in the organ music of pre-Romantic composers. On his first concert tour of Europe, in 1954, Biggs performed and recorded works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Sweelinck, Dieterich Buxtehude, and Pachelbel on historic organs associated with those composers. Thereafter, he believed that such music should ideally be performed on instruments representative of that period and that organ music of that epoch should be played by using (as closely as possible) the styles and registrations of that era. Thus, he sparked the American revival of organ building in the style of European Baroque instruments, seen especially in the increasing popularity of tracker organs — analogous to Europe's Orgelbewegung.

Among other instruments, Biggs championed G. Donald Harrison's Baroque-style unenclosed, unencased instrument with 24 stops and electric action (produced by Aeolian-Skinner in 1937 and installed in Harvard's Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts) and the three-manual Flentrop tracker organ subsequently installed there in 1958. Many of his CBS radio broadcasts and Columbia recordings were made in the museum. Another remarkable instrument used by Biggs was the Challis pedal harpsichord; Biggs made recordings of the music of J.S. Bach and Scott Joplin on this instrument.
His critics of the time included rival concert organist Virgil Fox, who was known for a more flamboyant, colorful style of performance. Fox decried Biggs' insistence on historical accuracy, claiming it was "relegating the organ to a museum piece." However, most observers agree that Biggs "should be given great credit for his innovative ideas as far as the musical material he recorded, and for making the organs he recorded even more famous."[2] Despite different approaches, both artists enjoyed hugely successful careers and Biggs rose to the top of his profession.
In addition to concertizing and recording, Biggs taught at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at various times in his career and edited a large body of organ music.
For his contribution to the recording industry, E. Power Biggs has a star on California's Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6522 Hollywood Blvd.

Aaron Copland
Real Name:
Aaron Copland
Profile:
American composer, born November 14, 1900, in Brooklyn, New York, died December 2, 1990, in North Tarrytown.

From the 1960s onward, Copland's activities turned more from composing to conducting. He became a frequent guest conductor of orchestras in the U.S. and the UK and made a series of recordings of his music, primarily for Columbia Records.

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