This is the CBS/Great Performances recording! Treasure trove indeed! The usual suspects in most of the first chair sections. I'll need to find a program of who all these people were. The definitive recording of this suite.......as a one-time French hornist, their fanfare at the beginning of the last section is chillingly awe inspiring. If only I could have ever sounded like that! I'll be listening to this often
Thanks for this posting of a classic by Aaron Copeland. i enjoy watching Leonard Bernstein perform. There will never be another composer, conductor, performer like him. Sometimes it takes a lot of searching on the internet to find lost gems like this one. The audio is superb and the video even though it isn't high definition, it brings the audio to life and gives it meaning.
A lovely performance that stunningly cut, CUT the fight section! Was that editing for television? I can't imagine Bernstein doing so. That percussion is the grist of the entire suite, the climax of the ballet itself. No wonder it seemed short.
The collaboration between Bernstein and Copland is legendary
This is the CBS/Great Performances recording! Treasure trove indeed! The usual suspects in most of the first chair sections. I'll need to find a program of who all these people were. The definitive recording of this suite.......as a one-time French hornist, their fanfare at the beginning of the last section is chillingly awe inspiring. If only I could have ever sounded like that! I'll be listening to this often
Thanks for this posting of a classic by Aaron Copeland. i enjoy watching Leonard Bernstein perform.
There will never be another composer, conductor, performer like him.
Sometimes it takes a lot of searching on the internet to find lost gems like this one.
The audio is superb and the video even though it isn't high definition,
it brings the audio to life and gives it meaning.
The way Bernstein delicately conducts Billy's death scene is as beautiful as the music.
There is a superb analysis as well that Bernstein gave just before this performance.
A lovely performance that stunningly cut, CUT the fight section! Was that editing for television? I can't imagine Bernstein doing so. That percussion is the grist of the entire suite, the climax of the ballet itself. No wonder it seemed short.
Yes, it was from a Young People's Concert. They were only an hour long when broadcast so some works were performed as abridged versions.
@@Nyssa337 it's nice how Lenny is "performing" the conductor's role with some extra emphasis...
Good bye, Old Paint.........I'm a'leavin Cheyenne..............
Nobody conducted Copland like Bernstein and if i dare say it not even Copland himself.
At 11:12 we see and hear the late great Saul Goodman on timpani