Three examples of Leonard Berstine's vocal art can be heard in this recording. His Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish" shuns traditional symphonic ideas in favor of an eclectic theatrical and oratorio-like form with a prominent role for speaker. For this recording Marin Alsop has returned to the work's original narrative text, heard before the 1977 revision. The Lark - heard in a concert version with added narration - derives from Lillian Hellman's adaptation of L'Alouette on the life of Joan of Arc, and it was this music that Bernstein reworked into his Missa Brevis many years later.

Tracklist:

Missa Brevis: Kyrie
Missa Brevis: Gloria
Missa Brevis: Sanctus
Missa Brevis: Benedictus
Missa Brevis: Agnus Dei
Missa Brevis: Dona Nobis Pacem
Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish": Ia. Invocation
Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish": Ib. Kaddish 1
Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish": Iia. Din Torah
Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish": Iib. Kaddish 2
Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish": Iiia. Scherzo
Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish": Iiib. Kaddish 3
Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish": Iiic. Finale
Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish": Iiic. Fugue
The Lark (2012 Concert Version With Narrator By N.G. Lew And M. Alsop)

UPC: 636943974223
Label: Naxos
Release Date: 9.11.15
Format: CD

Berstein / Baltiimore Sym Orch / Bloom / Alsop - Symphony No. 3 Kaddish (CD)