New York Philharmonic NYP 2003

Bernstein Live

Disc 1
Igor Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale
Sir Edward Elgar: Cockaigne Overture
Sergej Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Lazar Berman)

Disc 2
Virgil Thomson: The Seine at Night
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 (Byron Janis)
Anton Webern: Six Pieces for Orchestra
Paul Hindemith: Symphony, Mathis der Mahler

Disc 3
Benjamin Britten: Spring Symphony (Jennifer Vyvyan, Regina Sarfaty, Richard Lewis)
Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto (Jacqueline du Pré)
Jean Sibelius: Songs (Phyllis Curtin)

Disc 4
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Wilhelm Kempff)
Lukas Foss: Quintets for Orchestra
Aaron Copland: Dance Symphony

Disc 5
Sergej Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Vladimir Ashkenazy)
Igor Markevitch: Icare (United States Premiere)
Edgard Varèse: Arcana

Disc 6
Samuel Barber: Second Essay
William Russo: Symphony No. 2 (Maynard Ferguson) (World Premiere)
Carl Ruggles: Men and Mountains
Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2 (World Premiere) (*)

Disc 7
Rodion Shchedrin: Mischievous Folk Ditties
Igor Stravinsky: Capriccio (Seymour Lipkin)
Hans Werner Henze: Symphony No. 5 (World Premiere)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Triple Concerto (Leonard Bernstein, John Corigliano, Laszlo Varga)

Disc 8
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern, John Wummer)
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.6

Disc 9
Bernstein Discusses and Performs Twentieth-Century Music:
Aaron Copland: An Outdoor Overture (*)
Iannis Xenakis: Pithoprakta (United States Premiere)
Henry Brant: Antiphony One
Pierre Boulez: Improvisations sur Mallermé (Marni Nixon) (United States Premiere)
John Cage: Atlas Eclipticalis (1961-62)

Disc 10
Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung (Eileen Farrell, Jess Thomas) (**)

Soloists mentioned after work-titles. Westfield Saint Paul's Church Boys' Choir. Little Church Around the Corner Boys' Choir. Collegiate Chorale. New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Leonard Bernstein, conductor.

Contains 2 booklets (500 pages) including new program notes by Alan Rich, a list of nearly 500 Bernstein recordings, a catalogue of Bernstein's over 1200 Philharmonic concert programs and other information.
Various recording dates (1951-1981). Cage recorded February 9, 1964. Recordings taken from broadcast performances, except for some live performances from Carnegie Hall, New York (*) and the Philharmonic Hall, New York (**).
CD released in 2000