 | Essential Leonard Bernstein
Buy used from: $2.42 Provides a range of Bernstein's works; the best Bernstein collections CD available, one every Bernstein collector should have.
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 | Mass
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $10.99 In my opinion, this is Bernstein's greatest work. While it is called a Mass, it is mass with a plot, one of a struggle with faith and God.
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 | Bernstein Conducts Candide
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.47 Outside of West Side Story, Candide is Bernstein's most popular work. This is the fullest recording available of the score (though some smaller orchestral numbers are still slashed).
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 | Bernstein Century - Bernstein: Trouble In Tahiti, Facsimile / Bernstein, New York Philharmonic by Nancy Williams
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.98 Bernstein's successful one-act opera, telling the story of a stereotypical 1950s family and their underlying relationship struggles.
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 | Bernstein: A Quiet Place
Buy used from: $74.99 The (unjustly) unpopular sequel to Trouble in Tahiti, Quiet Place is Bernstein's only large opera. Many years later, the family is drawn together by the mother's death.
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 | Bernstein: Arias and Barcarolles
Buy used from: $2.60 Bernstein continues with his family struggles theme in the Arias and Bacarolles.
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 | Bernstein: A White House Cantata
Buy used from: $14.98 Another rejected Bernstein masterpiece, his musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Unfortunately, this is an abridged recording, as a full recording is not available.
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 | Bernstein Century - Symphony No. 1 "Jeremiah" & Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety" by Leonard Bernstein
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $5.21 The first and second symphonies of Bernstein, as well as two song cycles.
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 | Bernstein: Symphony No. 3 ("Kaddish"); Chichester Psalms
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $4.94 The third symphony of Bernstein, which capitalizes on another favorite theme of Bernstein's: one's struggle with God.
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 | Bernstein conducts Bernstein: Serenade, Songfest / Bernstein
Buy used from: $4.12 The Serenade is for orchestra and violin solo. Songfest is a collection of American poetry set to varying styles of music (neo-romantic to 12-tone)
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 | Wonderful Town: First Complete Recording (1998 Studio Cast) by Leonard Bernstein
Buy new: $38.98 / Used from: $14.57 The complete recording of Wonderful Town, though the repetition of some instrumental portions can get obnoxious.
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 | Wonderful Town (Original Broadway Cast) by Leonard Bernstein
Buy used from: $1.49 The original recording of Wonderful Town.
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 | West Side Story (1957 Original Broadway Cast) by Carol Lawrence
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $2.93 The Broadway recording of West Side Story, Bernstein's most popular piece.
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 | West Side Story (1961 Film Soundtrack) by Leonard Bernstein
Buy used from: $3.74 The soundtrack to the first West Side Story. Aside from these two WSS recordings, there are no other recordings of this musical worth getting.
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 | Peter Pan (2005 Studio Cast) - Leonard Bernstein
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $6.70 A reconstructed performance of Peter Pan by Alexander Frey.
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| Peter Pan - Original 1950 Broadway Cast- Bernstein by Jean Arthur
Buy used from: $80.00 The original recording of Peter Pan; there is a lot of dialogue and less music on the CD, but provides a fitting less grand performance than the other CD.
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 | Bernstein: Dybbuk
Buy used from: $6.26 A dark ballet based on Jewish demons and exorcisms.
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 | On the Town (1992 London Concert Cast)
Buy used from: $1.98 Bernstein's first musical. While the vocalists are not the best, the orchestra is tops.
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 | Leonard Bernstein: A Jewish Legacy (Milken Archive of American Jewish Music)
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.85 This CD contains many of Bernstein's smaller Jewish-influenced works, many for voice or chorus.
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 | The Complete Solo Piano Music Of Leonard Bernstein / Frey
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $15.37 Bernstein's many small "Anniversary" piano works and his piano sonata.
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 | Bernstein: Symphony No. 1 "Jeremiah"; Concerto for Orchestra "Jubilee Games"
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.47 Jubilee Games is one of Bernstein's more difficult works to comprehend, but worth listening to when it settles on you.
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 | Barber: Agnus Dei (An American Collection) by Samuel Barber
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $9.99 One of Bernstein's last works, his choral piece, The Lark.
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 | Bernstein: Suite from Candide; Five Songs; Three Meditations from Mass; Divertimento by Oue
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $8.99 Bernstein's five songs, three meditations from Mass, Divertimento, and Candide Suite.
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 | Bernstein Conducts Bernstein by Leonard Bernstein
Buy new: $55.98 / Used from: $27.64 An abridged collection of DG's Bernstein Conducts Bernstein CD series.
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 | Bernstein Conducts Bernstein by L. Bernstein
This is a collection of 12 CDs, including all of DG's Bernstein Conducts Bernstein CD collection
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