The 1953 American Decca Recordings

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica": I. Allegro con brio

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  14:38
• 2
  Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica": II. Marcia funebre. Adagio assai

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  17:47
• 3
  Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica": III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  5:38
• 4
  Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica": IV. Finale. Allegro molto

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  12:21
• 5
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Beethoven's Symphony No. 3): "Simplicity itself..." (1st movement)

  [dialogue]
  13:24
• 6
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Beethoven's Symphony No. 3): "I always feel this gigantism..." (2nd movement)

  [dialogue]
  6:07
• 7
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Beethoven's Symphony No. 3): "We have just been examining..." (3rd movement)

  [dialogue]
  5:25
• CD 2
• 1
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Beethoven's Symphony No. 3): "All that we have said..." (4th movement)

  [dialogue]
  9:12
• 2
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Beethoven's Symphony No. 3): "The study of Eroica is a lifetime work..."

  [dialogue]
  1:11
• 3
  Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": I. Adagio – Allegro molto

  Antonín Dvořák
  8:51
• 4
  Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": II. Largo

  Antonín Dvořák
  13:32
• 5
  Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": III. Scherzo. Molto vivace

  Antonín Dvořák
  7:16
• 6
  Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": IV. Allegro con fuoco

  Antonín Dvořák
  11:33
• 7
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Dvorák's Symphony No.9): "Does this music sound like the New World to you?" (3rd movement, Trio II; 1st movement)

  [dialogue]
  9:51
• 8
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Dvorák's Symphony No.9): "We come now to the second movement, which has a charming melody, ..." (2nd movement)

  [dialogue]
  3:22
• 9
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Dvorák's Symphony No.9): "The third movement is a marvel of ingenuity and deftness" (3rd movement)

  [dialogue]
  1:40
• 10
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Dvorák's Symphony No.9): "And now the last movement. In general I should say that this is the most Slavic of all" (4th movement)

  [dialogue]
  5:00
• 11
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Dvorák's Symphony No.9): "The final claim of those who argue for the New World Symphony as American music, ..." (4th movement, continued)

  [dialogue]
  1:01
• CD 3
• 1
  Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61: I. Sostenuto assai - Un poco più vivace - Allegro ma non troppo - Con fuoco

  Robert Schumann
  12:27
• 2
  Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61: II. Scherzo: Allegro vivace

  Robert Schumann
  6:58
• 3
  Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61: III. Adagio espressivo

  Robert Schumann
  11:53
• 4
  Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61: IV. Allegro molto vivace

  Robert Schumann
  8:14
• 5
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Schumann's Symphony No. 2): "Robert Schumann has been dead..." (3rd movement, opening theme)

  [dialogue]
  4:22
• 6
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Schumann's Symphony No. 2): "To my mind, Schumann follows in this tradition..."

  [dialogue]
  1:48
• 7
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Schumann's Symphony No. 2): "Now let's look at the Symphony itself..." (1st movement)

  [dialogue]
  8:39
• 8
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Schumann's Symphony No. 2): "And so we have arrived at the allegro section..." (1st movement, continued)

  [dialogue]
  6:51
• 9
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Schumann's Symphony No. 2): "In the marvelous Scherzo that follows..." (2nd movement)

  [dialogue]
  4:49
• 10
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Schumann's Symphony No. 2): "But perhaps the greatest beauty...." (3rd movement)

  [dialogue]
  7:31
• 11
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Schumann's Symphony No. 2): "Even in the final movement...." (4th movement)

  [dialogue]
  5:15
• CD 4
• 1
  Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98: I. Allegro non troppo

  Johannes Brahms
  11:50
• 2
  Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98: II. Andante moderato

  Johannes Brahms
  11:53
• 3
  Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98: III. Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto - Tempo I

  Johannes Brahms
  6:07
• 4
  Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98: IV. Allegro energico e passionato - Più allegro

  Johannes Brahms
  11:01
• 5
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Brahms's Symphony No. 4): "Brahms' Fourth Symphony in E minor is today ..." (4th movement., opening theme)

  [dialogue]
  4:44
• 6
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Brahms's Symphony No. 4): "Our journey begins without introduction..." (1st movement)

  [dialogue]
  5:15
• 7
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Brahms's Symphony No. 4): "Do you see now what a symphonic theme is?" (1st movement)

  [dialogue]
  3:23
• 8
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Brahms's Symphony No. 4): "Now, think of it - we have so far only had 44 bars of music" (1st movement)

  [dialogue]
  5:47
• 9
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Brahms's Symphony No. 4): "Here is that second theme" (1st movement)

  [dialogue]
  2:41
• 10
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Brahms's Symphony No. 4): "This brings us to the development section proper" (1st movement)

  [dialogue]
  9:34
• 11
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Brahms's Symphony No. 4): And here we are back home, ready for the rehearing of the exposition,..." (1st movement)

  [dialogue]
  2:16
• 12
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Brahms's Symphony No. 4): "So we arrive at the coda" (1st movement)

  [dialogue]
  3:18
• 13
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Brahms's Symphony No. 4): "Well, we have had a microscopic look at symphonic method" (1st movement)

  [dialogue]
  2:11
• CD 5
• 1
  Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique": I. Adagio – Allegro non troppo

  Пётр Ильич Чайковский
  18:43
• 2
  Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique": II. Allegro con grazia

  Пётр Ильич Чайковский
  8:14
• 3
  Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique": III. Allegro molto vivace

  Пётр Ильич Чайковский
  9:08
• 4
  Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 "Pathétique": IV. Finale. Adagio lamentoso – Andante

  Пётр Ильич Чайковский
  11:26
• 5
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6): "Now there is a melody, a pure orchestral song..." (1st movement)

  [dialogue]
  9:18
• 6
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6): "Now the development section erupts..." (1st movement continued)

  [dialogue]
  1:58
• 7
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6): "Now one would think that Tchaikovsky had really exploited the device of scales" (2nd movement)

  [dialogue]
  1:56
• 8
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6): "Jumping now to the famous third movement, the great March..." (3rd movement)

  [dialogue]
  1:50
• 9
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6): "Perhaps the most admirable example of this is to be found in the wonderful last movement, ..." (4th movement)

  [dialogue]
  3:40
• 10
  Musical Analysis (Bernstein on Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6): "Now I don't want to give you the impression that scales are the only unifying force in this work"

  [dialogue]
  6:01

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Release credits

• Leonard Bernstein
  conductor [2.1-6, 3.1-4, 5.1-4, 1.1-7, 4.1-4], spoken vocals [4.5-13, 5.5-10, 2.1-2, 2.7-11, 3.5-11, 1.5-7]
• New York Stadium Symphony Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1.1-7, 2.1-6, 3.1-4, 4.1-4, 5.1-4]

Issues

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  The 1953 American Decca Recordings

  5x CD
  1 December 2004