Bernstein, 'Songfest' (1/6) - songs 1-3

Описание: Beautiful performance at the 1988 Proms of a work by Bernstein many will have never heard and I hope to make more known by these uploads. The performers are Daisy Newman, (soprano), Candice Burrows (mezzo), Janice Meyerson (mezzo), Salvatore Champagne (tenor), Jerrold Pope (baritone), Robert Osborne (bass) with the the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Orchestra conducted by the composer, Leonard Bernstein.

With apologies to Janet Suzman and Sam Wanamaker who read the poems between the songs and who I left out to save time on up- and download.

Also: as the broadcast was in mono the sound is that of the television signal - apologies for the hiss.

poems:

1 To the Poem
by Frank O'Hara
sung by all

2 The pennycandystore beyond the el
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
sung by Jerrold Pope

3 A Julia de Burgos
by Julia de Burgos
sung by Daisy Newman