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2019. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng, Pages 413. Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back [1896]. This book is Printed in black & white, Hardcover, sewing bi… More...

2019. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng, Pages 413. Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back [1896]. This book is Printed in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. (Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges). Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions., 2019, 2019. Hardcover. New. Lang: - eng, Pages 413. Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back [1896]. This book is Printed in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. (Any type of Customisation is possible with extra charges). Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions., 2019, Springer, 2008-10-23. Paperback. Good., Springer, 2008-10-23, Fidelio conducted by Leonard Bernstein (3 cassettes)Featuring: Wiener Staatsopernchor -Wiener Philharmoniker, Gundula Janowitz, Lucia Popp, also Kollo, Sotin, Fischer-Dieskau, Jungwirth, DallopozzaLabel DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHONContains a booklet with libretto in English, French & German. Fidelio (originally titled Leonore, oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe; English: Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love), Op. 72, is Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto was originally prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, with the work premiering at Vienna's Theater an der Wien on 20 November 1805. The following year, Stephan von Breuning helped shorten the work from three acts to two. After further work on the libretto by Georg Friedrich Treitschke, a final version was performed at the Kärntnertortheater on 23 May 1814. By convention, both of the first two versions are referred to as Leonore.The libretto, with some spoken dialogue, tells how Leonore, disguised as a prison guard named "Fidelio", rescues her husband Florestan from death in a political prison. Bouilly's scenario fits Beethoven's aesthetic and political outlook: a story of personal sacrifice, heroism, and eventual triumph. With its underlying struggle for liberty and justice mirroring contemporary political movements in Europe, such topics are typical of Beethoven's "middle period". Notable moments in the opera include the "Prisoners' Chorus" (O welche Lust"O what a joy"), an ode to freedom sung by a chorus of political prisoners, Florestan's vision of Leonore come as an angel to rescue him, and the scene in which the rescue finally takes place. The finale celebrates Leonore's bravery with alternating contributions of soloists and chorus.---------------------Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the US to receive worldwide acclaim. According to music critic Donal Henahan, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."His fame derived from his long tenure as the music director of the New York Philharmonic, from his conducting of concerts with most of the world's leading orchestras, and from his music for West Side Story, Peter Pan, Candide, Wonderful Town, On the Town, On the Waterfront, his Mass, and a range of other compositions, including three symphonies and many shorter chamber and solo works.Bernstein was the first conductor to give a series of television lectures on classical music, starting in 1954 and continuing until his death. He was a skilled pianist, often conducting piano concertos from the keyboard. He was also a critical figure in the modern revival of the music of Gustav Mahler, the composer he was most passionately interested in.As a composer he wrote in many styles encompassing symphonic and orchestral music, ballet, film and theatre music, choral works, opera, chamber music and pieces for the piano. Many of his works are regularly performed around the world, although none has matched the tremendous popular and critical success of West Side Story.In 1960 Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic held a Mahler Festival to mark the centenary of the composer's birth. Bernstein, Walter and Mitropoulos conducted performances. The composer's widow, Alma, attended some of Bernstein's rehearsals. In 1960 Bernstein also made his first commercial recording of a Mahler symphony (the Fourth) and over the next seven years he made the first complete cycle of recordings of all nine of Mahler's completed symphonies. (All featured the New York Philharmonic except the 8th Symphony which was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra following a concert in the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1966.) The success of these recordings, along with Bernstein's concert performances and television talks, was an important, if not vital, part of the revival of interest in Mahler in the 1960s, especially in the U.S. Bernstein claimed that he identified with the works on a personal level, and once said of the composer: He showered a rain of beauty on this world that has not been equaled since.Other non-U.S. composers that Bernstein championed to some extent at the time include the Danish composer Carl Nielsen (who was then only little known in the U.S.) and Jean Sibelius, whose popularity had by then started to fade. Bernstein eventually recorded a complete cycle in New York of Sibelius's symphonies and three of Nielsen's symphonies (Nos. 2, 4, and 5), as well as conducting recordings of his violin, clarinet and flute concertos. He also recorded Nielsen's 3rd Symphony with the Royal Danish Orchestra after a critically acclaimed public performance in Denmark. Bernstein championed U.S. composers, especially those that he was close to like Aaron Copland, William Schuman and David Diamond. He also started to more extensively record his own compositions for Columbia Records. This included his three symphonies, his ballets, and the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story with the New York Philharmonic. He also conducted an LP of his 1944 musical On The Town, the first (almost) complete recording of the original featuring several members of the original Broadway cast, including Betty Comden and Adolph Green. (The 1949 film version only contains four of Bernstein's original numbers.) Bernstein also collaborated with the experimental jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck resulting in the recording Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein (1961).In one oft-reported incident, in April 1962 Bernstein appeared on stage before a performance of the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor with the pianist Glenn Gould. During rehearsals, Gould had argued for tempi much broader than normal, which did not reflect Bernstein's concept of the music. Bernstein gave a brief address to the audience starting with "Don't be frightened; Mr Gould is here..." and going on to "In a concerto, who is the boss (audience laughter)the soloist or the conductor?" (Audience laughter grows louder). The answer is, of course, sometimes the one and sometimes the other, depending on the people involved." This speech was subsequently interpreted by Harold C. Schonberg, music critic for The New York Times, as abdication of personal responsibility and an attack on Gould, whose performance Schonberg went on to criticize heavily. Bernstein always denied that this had been his intent and has stated that he made these remarks with Gould's blessing. In the book Dinner with Lenny, published in October 2013, author Jonathan Cott provided a thorough debunking, in the conductor's own words, of the legend which Bernstein himself described in the book as "one ... that won't go away". Throughout his life, he professed admiration and friendship for Gould. Schonberg was often (though not always) harshly critical of Bernstein as a conductor during his tenure as music director. However, his views were not shared by the audiences (with many full houses) and probably not by the musicians themselves (who had greater financial security arising from Bernstein's many TV and recording activities amongst other things).In 1962 the New York Philharmonic moved from Carnegie Hall to Philharmonic Hall (now David Geffen Hall) in the new Lincoln Center. The move was not without controversy because of acoustic problems with the new hall. Bernstein conducted the gala opening concert featuring vocal works by Mahler, Beethoven and Vaughan Williams, and the premiere of Aaron Copland's Connotations, a serial-work that was merely politely received. During the intermission Bernstein kissed the cheek of the President's wife Jacqueline Kennedy, a break with protocol that was commented on at the time. In 1961 Bernstein had conducted at President John F. Kennedy's pre-inaugural gala, and he was an occasional guest in the White House. Years later he conducted at the funeral mass in 1968 for President Kennedy's brother Robert Kennedy, featuring the Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony. Jackie Kennedy famously wrote to Bernstein after the event: When your Mahler started to fill (but that is the wrong word because it was more this sensitive trembling) the Cathedral today I thought it the most beautiful music I had ever heard.On November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Leonard Bernstein conducted the New York Philharmonic and the Schola Cantorum of New York in a nationally televised memorial featuring the "Resurrection Symphony" by Gustav Mahler. This was the first televised performance of the complete symphony. Mahler's music had never been performed for such an event, and since the tribute to JFK, Mahler symphonies have become part of the standard repertoire for national mourning.In 1964 Bernstein conducted Franco Zeffirelli's production of Verdi's Falstaff at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 1966 he made his debut at the Vienna State Opera conducting Luchino Visconti's production of the same opera with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff. During his time in Vienna he also recorded the opera for Columbia Records and conducted his first subscription concert with the Vienna Philharmonic (which is made up of players from the Vienna State Opera) featuring Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Fischer-Dieskau and James King. He returned to the State Opera in 1968 for a production of Der Rosenkavalier and in 1970 for Otto Schenk's production of Beethoven's Fidelio. Sixteen years later, at the State Opera, Bernstein conducted his sequel to Trouble in Tahiti, A Quiet Place, with the ORF orchestra. Bernstein's final farewell to the State Opera happened accidentally in 1989: following a performance of Modest Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina, he unexpectedly entered the stage and embraced conductor Claudio Abbado in front of a cheering audience.With his commitment to the New York Philharmonic and his many other activities, Bernstein had little time for composition during the 1960s. The two major works he produced at this time were his Kaddish Symphony dedicated to the recently assassinated President John F. Kennedy and the Chichester Psalms, which he produced during a sabbatical year he took from the Philharmonic in 1965 to concentrate on composition. To make more time to composition was probably a major factor in his decision to step down as Music Director of the Philharmonic in 1969, and to never again accept such a position elsewhere.After stepping down from the New York Philharmonic, Bernstein continued to appear with them in most years until his death, and he toured with them to Europe in 1976 and to Asia in 1979. He also strengthened his relationship with the Vienna Philharmoniche conducted all nine completed Mahler symphonies with them (plus the Adagio from the 10th) in the period from 1967 to 1976. All of these were filmed for Unitel with the exception of the 1967 Mahler 2nd, which instead Bernstein filmed with the London Symphony Orchestra in Ely Cathedral in 1973. In the late 1970s Bernstein conducted a complete Beethoven symphony cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic, and cycles of Brahms and Schumann were to follow in the 1980s. Other orchestras he conducted on numerous occasions in the 1970s include the Israel Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.In 1970 Bernstein wrote and narrated a ninety-minute program filmed on location in and around Vienna as a celebration of Beethoven's 200th birthday. It featured parts of Bernstein's rehearsals and performance for the Otto Schenk production of Fidelio, Bernstein playing the 1st piano concerto and the Ninth Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic and the young Plácido Domingo amongst the soloists. The program was first telecast in 1970 on Austrian and British television, and then on CBS in the U.S. on Christmas Eve 1971. The show, originally entitled Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna, won an Emmy and was issued on DVD in 2005. In the summer of 1970, during the Festival of London, he conducted Verdi's Requiem Mass in St. Paul's Cathedral, with the London Symphony Orchestra.In 1978, Bernstein returned to the Vienna State Opera to conduct a revival of the Otto Schenk production of Fidelio, now featuring Gundula Janowitz and René Kollo in the lead roles. At the same time, Bernstein made a studio recording of the opera for Deutsche Grammophon and the opera itself was filmed by Unitel and released on DVD by Deutsche Grammophon in late 2006. In May 1978, the Israel Philharmonic played two U.S. concerts under his direction to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Orchestra under that name. On consecutive nights, the Orchestra, with the Choral Arts Society of Washington, performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and at Carnegie Hall in New York., DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON, NY: Street & Smith, 1940. Vol. 152, No. 6. Pulp magazine. Cover art by Arthur Mitchell for "Undercover Justice" (novel; Sonny Tabor series) by Ward W. Stevens; "Death Runs Wild" (novelette) by James P. Webb; "Open Road to Boothill" (novelette) by Charles N. Heckelmann; "Better Than Bushwhack" by Ralph Yergen; "Driver to Doom" by Nelse Anderson; "Polecat Poker" by Stephen Payne; "Hot Lead Harvest" by Cliff Walters. Western Features: "A Chat with the Range Boss"; "Quien Sabe?"; "Cow Country Spanish"; "Readers' Branding Irons". Illustrations are uncredited. Creasing; tanning; standard foredge wear and tear; minor soiling; stress; minor staple tear.. SingleIssueMagazine. Very Good., Street & Smith, 1940, Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1929. Author's first mystery, introducing Sgt. Stephen Harper. An underworld boss is murdered and Harper is on the case. Bumped with wear and fraying at the edges, including tears to the rear spine fold. Hinges cracked with the fore edge of the front end paper removed, leaving part of the previous owner's name stamp. Plot synopsis from the front jacket flap glued to the front pastedown. Reading copy.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket., J.B. Lippincott, 1929, NY: Frank A. Munsey Co., 1925. Vol. CLXXIII, No. 5. Cover by Stockton Mulford for "Unhearing Ears" (pt. 1 of 5) by Arthur Preston Hankins. Includes "Her Hour of Reckoning" (pt. 2 of 4) by Elizabeth York Miller; "The Starlit Trail" (pt. 5 of 6) by Kenneth Perkins; "The Sun-Makers" (pt. 3 of 3) by William F. McMorrow; "The Test of the Sea" by Arthur Hunt Chute; "The Boss" by John Scarry; "Men With Spirit" by H. M. Hamilton; "One Evening of Crime" by George F. Worts; "Papered" by Walter A. Sinclair; "Grit" by Theodora Booth; "A Hundred Hints" by L. Paul. Poetry: "We Have Left undone" by Lucile Topping Howell; "The Window Flower" by Beatrice Ashton Vandergrift; "This Man I Knew" by Henry Harrison; "My Bronc" by Edgar Daniel Kramer; "To a Red-Haired Girl" by William Laird; "Alone With Nature" by Hamilton Pope Galt; "The Bargain" by P. Sidney. Many small bits out at edges; paper quality is very high.. SingleIssueMagazine. Very Good., Frank A. Munsey Co., 1925, New York: A. L. Burt, 1916. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Douglas Duer. Plate frontispiece. Very good brown illustrated cloth. Some wear, spine heel tear, previous owner name inside, no jacket. (1916), 8vo, [7], 2-321pp. [11] pages adverts. "Only the strong could survive logging in the vast forests of British Columbia, where two honest timbermen battled an amoral greedy rival in a business with great potential for profit but bosses and workers paid a high price in extreme isolation, primitive living conditions and hazardous work. Stella Benton, an impoverished but gently reared young woman trapped in brother Charlies rough lumber camp, added fuel to the already volatile mix. Big Jack Fyfe, Charlies neighbor and friend, offered Stella escape from the camp in a loveless marriage along with prosperity and respectability. Then unforeseen tragedy, bad market conditions, tinder-dry forest, and Walter Monahans vicious vendetta threatens to destroy them all." oclc, A. L. Burt, 1916<

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Fidelio conducted by Leonard Bernstein (3 cassettes)Featuring: Wiener Staatsopernchor -Wiener Philharmoniker, Gundula Janowitz, Lucia Popp, also Kollo, Sotin, Fischer-Dieskau, Jungwirth, … More...

Fidelio conducted by Leonard Bernstein (3 cassettes)Featuring: Wiener Staatsopernchor -Wiener Philharmoniker, Gundula Janowitz, Lucia Popp, also Kollo, Sotin, Fischer-Dieskau, Jungwirth, DallopozzaLabel DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHONContains a booklet with libretto in English, French & German. Fidelio (originally titled Leonore, oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe; English: Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love), Op. 72, is Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto was originally prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, with the work premiering at Vienna's Theater an der Wien on 20 November 1805. The following year, Stephan von Breuning helped shorten the work from three acts to two. After further work on the libretto by Georg Friedrich Treitschke, a final version was performed at the Kärntnertortheater on 23 May 1814. By convention, both of the first two versions are referred to as Leonore.The libretto, with some spoken dialogue, tells how Leonore, disguised as a prison guard named "Fidelio", rescues her husband Florestan from death in a political prison. Bouilly's scenario fits Beethoven's aesthetic and political outlook: a story of personal sacrifice, heroism, and eventual triumph. With its underlying struggle for liberty and justice mirroring contemporary political movements in Europe, such topics are typical of Beethoven's "middle period". Notable moments in the opera include the "Prisoners' Chorus" (O welche Lust"O what a joy"), an ode to freedom sung by a chorus of political prisoners, Florestan's vision of Leonore come as an angel to rescue him, and the scene in which the rescue finally takes place. The finale celebrates Leonore's bravery with alternating contributions of soloists and chorus.---------------------Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the US to receive worldwide acclaim. According to music critic Donal Henahan, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."His fame derived from his long tenure as the music director of the New York Philharmonic, from his conducting of concerts with most of the world's leading orchestras, and from his music for West Side Story, Peter Pan, Candide, Wonderful Town, On the Town, On the Waterfront, his Mass, and a range of other compositions, including three symphonies and many shorter chamber and solo works.Bernstein was the first conductor to give a series of television lectures on classical music, starting in 1954 and continuing until his death. He was a skilled pianist, often conducting piano concertos from the keyboard. He was also a critical figure in the modern revival of the music of Gustav Mahler, the composer he was most passionately interested in.As a composer he wrote in many styles encompassing symphonic and orchestral music, ballet, film and theatre music, choral works, opera, chamber music and pieces for the piano. Many of his works are regularly performed around the world, although none has matched the tremendous popular and critical success of West Side Story.In 1960 Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic held a Mahler Festival to mark the centenary of the composer's birth. Bernstein, Walter and Mitropoulos conducted performances. The composer's widow, Alma, attended some of Bernstein's rehearsals. In 1960 Bernstein also made his first commercial recording of a Mahler symphony (the Fourth) and over the next seven years he made the first complete cycle of recordings of all nine of Mahler's completed symphonies. (All featured the New York Philharmonic except the 8th Symphony which was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra following a concert in the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1966.) The success of these recordings, along with Bernstein's concert performances and television talks, was an important, if not vital, part of the revival of interest in Mahler in the 1960s, especially in the U.S. Bernstein claimed that he identified with the works on a personal level, and once said of the composer: He showered a rain of beauty on this world that has not been equaled since.Other non-U.S. composers that Bernstein championed to some extent at the time include the Danish composer Carl Nielsen (who was then only little known in the U.S.) and Jean Sibelius, whose popularity had by then started to fade. Bernstein eventually recorded a complete cycle in New York of Sibelius's symphonies and three of Nielsen's symphonies (Nos. 2, 4, and 5), as well as conducting recordings of his violin, clarinet and flute concertos. He also recorded Nielsen's 3rd Symphony with the Royal Danish Orchestra after a critically acclaimed public performance in Denmark. Bernstein championed U.S. composers, especially those that he was close to like Aaron Copland, William Schuman and David Diamond. He also started to more extensively record his own compositions for Columbia Records. This included his three symphonies, his ballets, and the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story with the New York Philharmonic. He also conducted an LP of his 1944 musical On The Town, the first (almost) complete recording of the original featuring several members of the original Broadway cast, including Betty Comden and Adolph Green. (The 1949 film version only contains four of Bernstein's original numbers.) Bernstein also collaborated with the experimental jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck resulting in the recording Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein (1961).In one oft-reported incident, in April 1962 Bernstein appeared on stage before a performance of the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor with the pianist Glenn Gould. During rehearsals, Gould had argued for tempi much broader than normal, which did not reflect Bernstein's concept of the music. Bernstein gave a brief address to the audience starting with "Don't be frightened; Mr Gould is here..." and going on to "In a concerto, who is the boss (audience laughter)the soloist or the conductor?" (Audience laughter grows louder). The answer is, of course, sometimes the one and sometimes the other, depending on the people involved." This speech was subsequently interpreted by Harold C. Schonberg, music critic for The New York Times, as abdication of personal responsibility and an attack on Gould, whose performance Schonberg went on to criticize heavily. Bernstein always denied that this had been his intent and has stated that he made these remarks with Gould's blessing. In the book Dinner with Lenny, published in October 2013, author Jonathan Cott provided a thorough debunking, in the conductor's own words, of the legend which Bernstein himself described in the book as "one ... that won't go away". Throughout his life, he professed admiration and friendship for Gould. Schonberg was often (though not always) harshly critical of Bernstein as a conductor during his tenure as music director. However, his views were not shared by the audiences (with many full houses) and probably not by the musicians themselves (who had greater financial security arising from Bernstein's many TV and recording activities amongst other things).In 1962 the New York Philharmonic moved from Carnegie Hall to Philharmonic Hall (now David Geffen Hall) in the new Lincoln Center. The move was not without controversy because of acoustic problems with the new hall. Bernstein conducted the gala opening concert featuring vocal works by Mahler, Beethoven and Vaughan Williams, and the premiere of Aaron Copland's Connotations, a serial-work that was merely politely received. During the intermission Bernstein kissed the cheek of the President's wife Jacqueline Kennedy, a break with protocol that was commented on at the time. In 1961 Bernstein had conducted at President John F. Kennedy's pre-inaugural gala, and he was an occasional guest in the White House. Years later he conducted at the funeral mass in 1968 for President Kennedy's brother Robert Kennedy, featuring the Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony. Jackie Kennedy famously wrote to Bernstein after the event: When your Mahler started to fill (but that is the wrong word because it was more this sensitive trembling) the Cathedral today I thought it the most beautiful music I had ever heard.On November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Leonard Bernstein conducted the New York Philharmonic and the Schola Cantorum of New York in a nationally televised memorial featuring the "Resurrection Symphony" by Gustav Mahler. This was the first televised performance of the complete symphony. Mahler's music had never been performed for such an event, and since the tribute to JFK, Mahler symphonies have become part of the standard repertoire for national mourning.In 1964 Bernstein conducted Franco Zeffirelli's production of Verdi's Falstaff at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 1966 he made his debut at the Vienna State Opera conducting Luchino Visconti's production of the same opera with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff. During his time in Vienna he also recorded the opera for Columbia Records and conducted his first subscription concert with the Vienna Philharmonic (which is made up of players from the Vienna State Opera) featuring Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Fischer-Dieskau and James King. He returned to the State Opera in 1968 for a production of Der Rosenkavalier and in 1970 for Otto Schenk's production of Beethoven's Fidelio. Sixteen years later, at the State Opera, Bernstein conducted his sequel to Trouble in Tahiti, A Quiet Place, with the ORF orchestra. Bernstein's final farewell to the State Opera happened accidentally in 1989: following a performance of Modest Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina, he unexpectedly entered the stage and embraced conductor Claudio Abbado in front of a cheering audience.With his commitment to the New York Philharmonic and his many other activities, Bernstein had little time for composition during the 1960s. The two major works he produced at this time were his Kaddish Symphony dedicated to the recently assassinated President John F. Kennedy and the Chichester Psalms, which he produced during a sabbatical year he took from the Philharmonic in 1965 to concentrate on composition. To make more time to composition was probably a major factor in his decision to step down as Music Director of the Philharmonic in 1969, and to never again accept such a position elsewhere.After stepping down from the New York Philharmonic, Bernstein continued to appear with them in most years until his death, and he toured with them to Europe in 1976 and to Asia in 1979. He also strengthened his relationship with the Vienna Philharmoniche conducted all nine completed Mahler symphonies with them (plus the Adagio from the 10th) in the period from 1967 to 1976. All of these were filmed for Unitel with the exception of the 1967 Mahler 2nd, which instead Bernstein filmed with the London Symphony Orchestra in Ely Cathedral in 1973. In the late 1970s Bernstein conducted a complete Beethoven symphony cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic, and cycles of Brahms and Schumann were to follow in the 1980s. Other orchestras he conducted on numerous occasions in the 1970s include the Israel Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.In 1970 Bernstein wrote and narrated a ninety-minute program filmed on location in and around Vienna as a celebration of Beethoven's 200th birthday. It featured parts of Bernstein's rehearsals and performance for the Otto Schenk production of Fidelio, Bernstein playing the 1st piano concerto and the Ninth Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic and the young Plácido Domingo amongst the soloists. The program was first telecast in 1970 on Austrian and British television, and then on CBS in the U.S. on Christmas Eve 1971. The show, originally entitled Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna, won an Emmy and was issued on DVD in 2005. In the summer of 1970, during the Festival of London, he conducted Verdi's Requiem Mass in St. Paul's Cathedral, with the London Symphony Orchestra.In 1978, Bernstein returned to the Vienna State Opera to conduct a revival of the Otto Schenk production of Fidelio, now featuring Gundula Janowitz and René Kollo in the lead roles. At the same time, Bernstein made a studio recording of the opera for Deutsche Grammophon and the opera itself was filmed by Unitel and released on DVD by Deutsche Grammophon in late 2006. In May 1978, the Israel Philharmonic played two U.S. concerts under his direction to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Orchestra under that name. On consecutive nights, the Orchestra, with the Choral Arts Society of Washington, performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and at Carnegie Hall in New York., DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON, Chicago: Time, Inc., 1959 Articles include: The Lacaze Affair -- An all-out French scandal; NASA launches Pioneer IV; Caravan of Detroiters heads for homestead farming in Alaska; Riot and Repression in Nyasaland; Rehearsal for Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley; Darwin's World of Nature, Part V -- The Animal Heirs of Ages Past, Life of forest and pampas showed Darwin path of evolution; India's New Boss-Lady, Indira Gandhi; Anne Holmes Waxman and her baby blanket; TV adaption of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" with Jason Robards, Maria Schell, Syd Pollack; The Private Letters of the President -- They reveal how Eisenhower brings a personal touch to public affairs; Fair Week in Manizales, Columbia. Edgewear, center spread is loose., Time, Inc., 1959, NY: Street & Smith, 1940. Vol. 152, No. 6. Pulp magazine. Cover art by Arthur Mitchell for "Undercover Justice" (novel; Sonny Tabor series) by Ward W. Stevens; "Death Runs Wild" (novelette) by James P. Webb; "Open Road to Boothill" (novelette) by Charles N. Heckelmann; "Better Than Bushwhack" by Ralph Yergen; "Driver to Doom" by Nelse Anderson; "Polecat Poker" by Stephen Payne; "Hot Lead Harvest" by Cliff Walters. Western Features: "A Chat with the Range Boss"; "Quien Sabe?"; "Cow Country Spanish"; "Readers' Branding Irons". Illustrations are uncredited. Creasing; tanning; standard foredge wear and tear; minor soiling; stress; minor staple tear.. SingleIssueMagazine. Very Good., Street & Smith, 1940, NY: Frank A. Munsey Co., 1925. Vol. CLXXIII, No. 5. Cover by Stockton Mulford for "Unhearing Ears" (pt. 1 of 5) by Arthur Preston Hankins. Includes "Her Hour of Reckoning" (pt. 2 of 4) by Elizabeth York Miller; "The Starlit Trail" (pt. 5 of 6) by Kenneth Perkins; "The Sun-Makers" (pt. 3 of 3) by William F. McMorrow; "The Test of the Sea" by Arthur Hunt Chute; "The Boss" by John Scarry; "Men With Spirit" by H. M. Hamilton; "One Evening of Crime" by George F. Worts; "Papered" by Walter A. Sinclair; "Grit" by Theodora Booth; "A Hundred Hints" by L. Paul. Poetry: "We Have Left undone" by Lucile Topping Howell; "The Window Flower" by Beatrice Ashton Vandergrift; "This Man I Knew" by Henry Harrison; "My Bronc" by Edgar Daniel Kramer; "To a Red-Haired Girl" by William Laird; "Alone With Nature" by Hamilton Pope Galt; "The Bargain" by P. Sidney. Many small bits out at edges; paper quality is very high.. SingleIssueMagazine. Very Good., Frank A. Munsey Co., 1925, Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1929. Author's first mystery, introducing Sgt. Stephen Harper. An underworld boss is murdered and Harper is on the case. Bumped with wear and fraying at the edges, including tears to the rear spine fold. Hinges cracked with the fore edge of the front end paper removed, leaving part of the previous owner's name stamp. Plot synopsis from the front jacket flap glued to the front pastedown. Reading copy.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket., J.B. Lippincott, 1929, New York: A. L. Burt, 1916. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Douglas Duer. Plate frontispiece. Very good brown illustrated cloth. Some wear, spine heel tear, previous owner name inside, no jacket. (1916), 8vo, [7], 2-321pp. [11] pages adverts. "Only the strong could survive logging in the vast forests of British Columbia, where two honest timbermen battled an amoral greedy rival in a business with great potential for profit but bosses and workers paid a high price in extreme isolation, primitive living conditions and hazardous work. Stella Benton, an impoverished but gently reared young woman trapped in brother Charlies rough lumber camp, added fuel to the already volatile mix. Big Jack Fyfe, Charlies neighbor and friend, offered Stella escape from the camp in a loveless marriage along with prosperity and respectability. Then unforeseen tragedy, bad market conditions, tinder-dry forest, and Walter Monahans vicious vendetta threatens to destroy them all." oclc, A. L. Burt, 1916<

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Fidelio conducted by Leonard Bernstein (3 cassettes)Featuring: Wiener Staatsopernchor -Wiener Philharmoniker, Gundula Janowitz, Lucia Popp, also Kollo, Sotin, Fischer-Dieskau, Jungwirth, … More...

Fidelio conducted by Leonard Bernstein (3 cassettes)Featuring: Wiener Staatsopernchor -Wiener Philharmoniker, Gundula Janowitz, Lucia Popp, also Kollo, Sotin, Fischer-Dieskau, Jungwirth, DallopozzaLabel DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHONContains a booklet with libretto in English, French & German. Fidelio (originally titled Leonore, oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe; English: Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love), Op. 72, is Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto was originally prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, with the work premiering at Vienna's Theater an der Wien on 20 November 1805. The following year, Stephan von Breuning helped shorten the work from three acts to two. After further work on the libretto by Georg Friedrich Treitschke, a final version was performed at the Kärntnertortheater on 23 May 1814. By convention, both of the first two versions are referred to as Leonore.The libretto, with some spoken dialogue, tells how Leonore, disguised as a prison guard named "Fidelio", rescues her husband Florestan from death in a political prison. Bouilly's scenario fits Beethoven's aesthetic and political outlook: a story of personal sacrifice, heroism, and eventual triumph. With its underlying struggle for liberty and justice mirroring contemporary political movements in Europe, such topics are typical of Beethoven's "middle period". Notable moments in the opera include the "Prisoners' Chorus" (O welche Lust"O what a joy"), an ode to freedom sung by a chorus of political prisoners, Florestan's vision of Leonore come as an angel to rescue him, and the scene in which the rescue finally takes place. The finale celebrates Leonore's bravery with alternating contributions of soloists and chorus.---------------------Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the US to receive worldwide acclaim. According to music critic Donal Henahan, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."His fame derived from his long tenure as the music director of the New York Philharmonic, from his conducting of concerts with most of the world's leading orchestras, and from his music for West Side Story, Peter Pan, Candide, Wonderful Town, On the Town, On the Waterfront, his Mass, and a range of other compositions, including three symphonies and many shorter chamber and solo works.Bernstein was the first conductor to give a series of television lectures on classical music, starting in 1954 and continuing until his death. He was a skilled pianist, often conducting piano concertos from the keyboard. He was also a critical figure in the modern revival of the music of Gustav Mahler, the composer he was most passionately interested in.As a composer he wrote in many styles encompassing symphonic and orchestral music, ballet, film and theatre music, choral works, opera, chamber music and pieces for the piano. Many of his works are regularly performed around the world, although none has matched the tremendous popular and critical success of West Side Story.In 1960 Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic held a Mahler Festival to mark the centenary of the composer's birth. Bernstein, Walter and Mitropoulos conducted performances. The composer's widow, Alma, attended some of Bernstein's rehearsals. In 1960 Bernstein also made his first commercial recording of a Mahler symphony (the Fourth) and over the next seven years he made the first complete cycle of recordings of all nine of Mahler's completed symphonies. (All featured the New York Philharmonic except the 8th Symphony which was recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra following a concert in the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1966.) The success of these recordings, along with Bernstein's concert performances and television talks, was an important, if not vital, part of the revival of interest in Mahler in the 1960s, especially in the U.S. Bernstein claimed that he identified with the works on a personal level, and once said of the composer: He showered a rain of beauty on this world that has not been equaled since.Other non-U.S. composers that Bernstein championed to some extent at the time include the Danish composer Carl Nielsen (who was then only little known in the U.S.) and Jean Sibelius, whose popularity had by then started to fade. Bernstein eventually recorded a complete cycle in New York of Sibelius's symphonies and three of Nielsen's symphonies (Nos. 2, 4, and 5), as well as conducting recordings of his violin, clarinet and flute concertos. He also recorded Nielsen's 3rd Symphony with the Royal Danish Orchestra after a critically acclaimed public performance in Denmark. Bernstein championed U.S. composers, especially those that he was close to like Aaron Copland, William Schuman and David Diamond. He also started to more extensively record his own compositions for Columbia Records. This included his three symphonies, his ballets, and the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story with the New York Philharmonic. He also conducted an LP of his 1944 musical On The Town, the first (almost) complete recording of the original featuring several members of the original Broadway cast, including Betty Comden and Adolph Green. (The 1949 film version only contains four of Bernstein's original numbers.) Bernstein also collaborated with the experimental jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck resulting in the recording Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein (1961).In one oft-reported incident, in April 1962 Bernstein appeared on stage before a performance of the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor with the pianist Glenn Gould. During rehearsals, Gould had argued for tempi much broader than normal, which did not reflect Bernstein's concept of the music. Bernstein gave a brief address to the audience starting with "Don't be frightened; Mr Gould is here..." and going on to "In a concerto, who is the boss (audience laughter)the soloist or the conductor?" (Audience laughter grows louder). The answer is, of course, sometimes the one and sometimes the other, depending on the people involved." This speech was subsequently interpreted by Harold C. Schonberg, music critic for The New York Times, as abdication of personal responsibility and an attack on Gould, whose performance Schonberg went on to criticize heavily. Bernstein always denied that this had been his intent and has stated that he made these remarks with Gould's blessing. In the book Dinner with Lenny, published in October 2013, author Jonathan Cott provided a thorough debunking, in the conductor's own words, of the legend which Bernstein himself described in the book as "one ... that won't go away". Throughout his life, he professed admiration and friendship for Gould. Schonberg was often (though not always) harshly critical of Bernstein as a conductor during his tenure as music director. However, his views were not shared by the audiences (with many full houses) and probably not by the musicians themselves (who had greater financial security arising from Bernstein's many TV and recording activities amongst other things).In 1962 the New York Philharmonic moved from Carnegie Hall to Philharmonic Hall (now David Geffen Hall) in the new Lincoln Center. The move was not without controversy because of acoustic problems with the new hall. Bernstein conducted the gala opening concert featuring vocal works by Mahler, Beethoven and Vaughan Williams, and the premiere of Aaron Copland's Connotations, a serial-work that was merely politely received. During the intermission Bernstein kissed the cheek of the President's wife Jacqueline Kennedy, a break with protocol that was commented on at the time. In 1961 Bernstein had conducted at President John F. Kennedy's pre-inaugural gala, and he was an occasional guest in the White House. Years later he conducted at the funeral mass in 1968 for President Kennedy's brother Robert Kennedy, featuring the Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony. Jackie Kennedy famously wrote to Bernstein after the event: When your Mahler started to fill (but that is the wrong word because it was more this sensitive trembling) the Cathedral today I thought it the most beautiful music I had ever heard.On November 23, 1963, the day after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Leonard Bernstein conducted the New York Philharmonic and the Schola Cantorum of New York in a nationally televised memorial featuring the "Resurrection Symphony" by Gustav Mahler. This was the first televised performance of the complete symphony. Mahler's music had never been performed for such an event, and since the tribute to JFK, Mahler symphonies have become part of the standard repertoire for national mourning.In 1964 Bernstein conducted Franco Zeffirelli's production of Verdi's Falstaff at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 1966 he made his debut at the Vienna State Opera conducting Luchino Visconti's production of the same opera with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Falstaff. During his time in Vienna he also recorded the opera for Columbia Records and conducted his first subscription concert with the Vienna Philharmonic (which is made up of players from the Vienna State Opera) featuring Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Fischer-Dieskau and James King. He returned to the State Opera in 1968 for a production of Der Rosenkavalier and in 1970 for Otto Schenk's production of Beethoven's Fidelio. Sixteen years later, at the State Opera, Bernstein conducted his sequel to Trouble in Tahiti, A Quiet Place, with the ORF orchestra. Bernstein's final farewell to the State Opera happened accidentally in 1989: following a performance of Modest Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina, he unexpectedly entered the stage and embraced conductor Claudio Abbado in front of a cheering audience.With his commitment to the New York Philharmonic and his many other activities, Bernstein had little time for composition during the 1960s. The two major works he produced at this time were his Kaddish Symphony dedicated to the recently assassinated President John F. Kennedy and the Chichester Psalms, which he produced during a sabbatical year he took from the Philharmonic in 1965 to concentrate on composition. To make more time to composition was probably a major factor in his decision to step down as Music Director of the Philharmonic in 1969, and to never again accept such a position elsewhere.After stepping down from the New York Philharmonic, Bernstein continued to appear with them in most years until his death, and he toured with them to Europe in 1976 and to Asia in 1979. He also strengthened his relationship with the Vienna Philharmoniche conducted all nine completed Mahler symphonies with them (plus the Adagio from the 10th) in the period from 1967 to 1976. All of these were filmed for Unitel with the exception of the 1967 Mahler 2nd, which instead Bernstein filmed with the London Symphony Orchestra in Ely Cathedral in 1973. In the late 1970s Bernstein conducted a complete Beethoven symphony cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic, and cycles of Brahms and Schumann were to follow in the 1980s. Other orchestras he conducted on numerous occasions in the 1970s include the Israel Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de France, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.In 1970 Bernstein wrote and narrated a ninety-minute program filmed on location in and around Vienna as a celebration of Beethoven's 200th birthday. It featured parts of Bernstein's rehearsals and performance for the Otto Schenk production of Fidelio, Bernstein playing the 1st piano concerto and the Ninth Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic and the young Plácido Domingo amongst the soloists. The program was first telecast in 1970 on Austrian and British television, and then on CBS in the U.S. on Christmas Eve 1971. The show, originally entitled Beethoven's Birthday: A Celebration in Vienna, won an Emmy and was issued on DVD in 2005. In the summer of 1970, during the Festival of London, he conducted Verdi's Requiem Mass in St. Paul's Cathedral, with the London Symphony Orchestra.In 1978, Bernstein returned to the Vienna State Opera to conduct a revival of the Otto Schenk production of Fidelio, now featuring Gundula Janowitz and René Kollo in the lead roles. At the same time, Bernstein made a studio recording of the opera for Deutsche Grammophon and the opera itself was filmed by Unitel and released on DVD by Deutsche Grammophon in late 2006. In May 1978, the Israel Philharmonic played two U.S. concerts under his direction to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Orchestra under that name. On consecutive nights, the Orchestra, with the Choral Arts Society of Washington, performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and at Carnegie Hall in New York., DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON, NY: Street & Smith, 1940. Vol. 152, No. 6. Pulp magazine. Cover art by Arthur Mitchell for "Undercover Justice" (novel; Sonny Tabor series) by Ward W. Stevens; "Death Runs Wild" (novelette) by James P. Webb; "Open Road to Boothill" (novelette) by Charles N. Heckelmann; "Better Than Bushwhack" by Ralph Yergen; "Driver to Doom" by Nelse Anderson; "Polecat Poker" by Stephen Payne; "Hot Lead Harvest" by Cliff Walters. Western Features: "A Chat with the Range Boss"; "Quien Sabe?"; "Cow Country Spanish"; "Readers' Branding Irons". Illustrations are uncredited. Creasing; tanning; standard foredge wear and tear; minor soiling; stress; minor staple tear.. SingleIssueMagazine. Very Good., Street & Smith, 1940, NY: Frank A. Munsey Co., 1925. Vol. CLXXIII, No. 5. Cover by Stockton Mulford for "Unhearing Ears" (pt. 1 of 5) by Arthur Preston Hankins. Includes "Her Hour of Reckoning" (pt. 2 of 4) by Elizabeth York Miller; "The Starlit Trail" (pt. 5 of 6) by Kenneth Perkins; "The Sun-Makers" (pt. 3 of 3) by William F. McMorrow; "The Test of the Sea" by Arthur Hunt Chute; "The Boss" by John Scarry; "Men With Spirit" by H. M. Hamilton; "One Evening of Crime" by George F. Worts; "Papered" by Walter A. Sinclair; "Grit" by Theodora Booth; "A Hundred Hints" by L. Paul. Poetry: "We Have Left undone" by Lucile Topping Howell; "The Window Flower" by Beatrice Ashton Vandergrift; "This Man I Knew" by Henry Harrison; "My Bronc" by Edgar Daniel Kramer; "To a Red-Haired Girl" by William Laird; "Alone With Nature" by Hamilton Pope Galt; "The Bargain" by P. Sidney. Many small bits out at edges; paper quality is very high.. SingleIssueMagazine. Very Good., Frank A. Munsey Co., 1925, Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1929. Author's first mystery, introducing Sgt. Stephen Harper. An underworld boss is murdered and Harper is on the case. Bumped with wear and fraying at the edges, including tears to the rear spine fold. Hinges cracked with the fore edge of the front end paper removed, leaving part of the previous owner's name stamp. Plot synopsis from the front jacket flap glued to the front pastedown. Reading copy.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket., J.B. Lippincott, 1929, New York: A. L. Burt, 1916. Reprint Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Douglas Duer. Plate frontispiece. Very good brown illustrated cloth. Some wear, spine heel tear, previous owner name inside, no jacket. (1916), 8vo, [7], 2-321pp. [11] pages adverts. "Only the strong could survive logging in the vast forests of British Columbia, where two honest timbermen battled an amoral greedy rival in a business with great potential for profit but bosses and workers paid a high price in extreme isolation, primitive living conditions and hazardous work. Stella Benton, an impoverished but gently reared young woman trapped in brother Charlies rough lumber camp, added fuel to the already volatile mix. Big Jack Fyfe, Charlies neighbor and friend, offered Stella escape from the camp in a loveless marriage along with prosperity and respectability. Then unforeseen tragedy, bad market conditions, tinder-dry forest, and Walter Monahans vicious vendetta threatens to destroy them all." oclc, A. L. Burt, 1916<