Leonard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic in the concert. Overtures combine music with theater and create mood.
Bernstein explains aspects of the overture. The New York Philharmonic plays examples of crescendo and allegro that comprise a Gioachino Rossini composition.
Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic in the overture.
Great artists are hard to satisfy. Bernstein describes how Ludwig van Beethoven wrote four overtures for the opera that became "Fidelio." The New York Philharmonic plays the composition.
Preludes are played at symphony concerts rather than operas. Overtures have different tempos. The composition by Claude Debussy conjures images of a summer afternoon.
Bernstein conducts the New York philharmonic in the overture to an American Broadway musical comedy.
Credits: Overtures and Preludes
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Bernstein says that part of the excitement of an overture is the theatrical element. An overture is an opening piece designed to be played in a musical theater before the curtain goes up. A prelude is usually shorter than an overture, and usually doesn't have different parts. It is played all in the same tempo. After defining the terms, Bernstein analyzes and conducts the overture to the opera Semiramide by Rossini and then the Leonore Overture No. 3 by Beethoven. To illustrate a prelude, he conducts Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. The program closes with a performance of the overture to Bernstein's Candide.
Length: 54 minutes
Item#: BVL192739
Copyright date: ©1961
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