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Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Copland: In the Beginning; Barber: Agnus Dei

9/29/2023, 8 Tracks, 54:00

Featuring

  • Dominic Martelli
  • Rachel Masters
  • Gary Kettel
  • Thomas Trotter
  • Matthew Best
  • Catherine Denley
  • Corydon Singers
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Samuel Barber
  • Aaron Copland

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Compositional Technique

The Chichester Psalms are set in Hebrew and feature a powerful introit that reappears at the end of the first and last movements.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Samuel Barber's 'Agnus Dei' is an arrangement he made in 1967 of the slow movement of his 1936 string quartet, which became famous as 'Adagio for Strings'.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Aaron Copland, along with other American composers like Virgil Thomson and Roy Harris, studied with Nadia Boulanger, a Frenchwoman and influential musical pedagogue, in France.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Leonard Bernstein composed his Chichester Psalms during a sabbatical year in 1965, when he had decided to take a break from conducting to reflect on music and his own creative path.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Samuel Barber, a composer, was admitted to the Curtis Institute at age fourteen and won a Pulitzer scholarship in 1935 at age twenty-four.

Source: Booklet

Composer Biography

Leonard Bernstein, a figure of 20th-century American music, was predicted to be "doomed to success" by a friend at the Curtis Institute in 1941.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

Bernstein described his Chichester Psalms as "tonal and tuneful and somewhat square," contrasting them with the avant-garde trends of his time.

Source: Booklet

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