Bernstein - Kaddish · Chichester Psalms / Mattila · Menuhin · Radio France · Yutaka Sado

Leonard Bernstein (Artist), Yutaka Sado (Artist), Karita Mattila (Artist), Yehudi Menuhin (Artist), Choeur et Maîtrise de Radio France Orchestre Philharmonique (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 18, 1999)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B00000IWRN
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #844,541 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Symphony No. 3 ('Kaddish'), for soprano, speakers, choruses & orchestra: 1. Invocation. Kaddish 1

2. Symphony No. 3 ('Kaddish'), for soprano, speakers, choruses & orchestra: 2. Din-Torah. Kaddish 2

3. Symphony No. 3 ('Kaddish'), for soprano, speakers, choruses & orchestra: 3. Scherzo. Kaddish 3. Finale. Fugue-tutti

4. Chichester Psalms, for boy soloist, chorus & orchestra: 1. Psalm 108 (verse 2) & Psalm 100 (complete)

5. Chichester Psalms, for boy soloist, chorus & orchestra: 2. Psalm 23 (complete) & Psalm 2 (verses 1-4)

6. Chichester Psalms, for boy soloist, chorus & orchestra: 3. Psalm 131 (complete) & Psalm 133 (verse 1)

Customer Reviews

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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Imposing when not posing, June 2, 1999

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This review is from: Bernstein - Kaddish · Chichester Psalms / Mattila · Menuhin · Radio France · Yutaka Sado (Audio CD)

Leonard Bernstein's <Symphony No. 3:Kaddish> and <Chichester Psalms> are very powerful works, but in them are obvious echoes of Mahler, Carl Orff, and even Respighi. That "but" is not pejorative since no work can be utterly original; still I have always found this composer to be a bit of poseur. In the "Kaddish," which is the Hebrew Prayer for the Dead, Yehudi Menuhin is assigned the role of Speaker, while soloists Karita Mattila and others sing in Hebrew with the Chorus, Children's Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France under Yutaka Sado. The anger and bewilderment against a God who can allow such evil to exist is dramatically portrayed more in the music than in the words; while the companion pieces, the "Chichester Psalms," use the device of juxtaposing lines from the Psalms to form equally dramatic contrasts. All in all, this is a very worthwhile set to have and enjoy-although I do wish there were a way of blocking out the spoken parts on subsequent hearings.