by Leonard Bernstein, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Wiener Jeunesse-Chor, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra · Deutsche Grammophon / Polygram Records · CD · EAN 0028941596529
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«Bernstein Conducts Bernstein: Songfest / Chichester Psalms» is the album conducted by Leonard Bernstein, released by Deutsche Grammophon on CD.
It brings together two works by Leonard Bernstein conducted by himself: «Songfest» (1977), a cycle of American poems for six singers and orchestra with texts by authors such as Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe and Julia de Burgos, and «Chichester Psalms» (1965), composed for mixed choir, boy soloist and orchestra based on psalms.
1978 recording for Deutsche Grammophon (ref. 415 965-2), with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Wiener Jeunesse-Chor. 1-disc CD.
For fans of classical music and of Leonard Bernstein as composer and conductor, with 20th-century symphonic-choral repertoire.
