Leonard Bernstein Discography Leonard Bernstein at Harvard / T...

Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein at Harvard / The Norton Lectures 1973: "The Unanswered Question"

Release date 2018

Tracklist

1

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "First of all..."

2:01

2:01

2

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Perhaps the principal thing..."

1:40

1:40

3

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Let me start..."

0:53

0:53

4

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "This is not just a sentimental anecdote..."

1:52

1:52

5

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "From this time..."

2:29

2:29

6

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "But how do we investigate..."

2:52

2:52

7

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Now you can see..."

1:29

1:29

8

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Universality is a big word..."

2:31

2:31

9

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Other linguists..."

2:46

2:46

10

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "I began by imagining myself..."

2:12

2:12

11

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Well, then I thought..."

2:06

2:06

12

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Let's make a simple analogy..."

2:03

2:03

13

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Maybe even a divine one..."

1:33

1:33

14

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "But where do these notes come from?"

2:22

2:22

15

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "This acoustical phenomenon..."

2:08

2:08

16

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "All these upper notes..."

1:52

1:52

17

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "The first overtone..."

2:33

2:33

18

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "But more of that later..."

1:56

1:56

19

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "But let's not make the mistake..."

2:21

2:21

20

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "And that's how the tempered clavichord..."

2:12

2:12

21

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Now this is a substantive universal..."

2:01

2:01

22

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "But let's be careful..."

1:43

1:43

23

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "And there is always that blue note..."

1:37

1:37

24

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "But even these twelve tones..."

1:51

1:51

25

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "I trust you realize..."

2:16

2:16

26

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "And again comes a great leap..."

2:32

2:32

27

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Now this means..."

1:38

1:38

28

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "This is not to say that there were no drastic changes..."

2:28

2:28

29

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "But meanwhile we are still in the Golden Age..."

2:55

2:55

30

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "So, we're in the midst of a chromatic adventure..."

1:27

1:27

31

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "And all by those progressions..."

1:34

1:34

32

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Now, I must point out..."

1:57

1:57

33

Vol. 1: Musical Phonology: "Do you realize..."

1:32

1:32

34

Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K. 550: I. Allegro molto

8:19

8:19

35

Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K. 550: II. Andante

8:31

8:31

36

Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K. 550: III. Minuetto. Allegretto & Trio

4:38

4:38

37

Symphony no. 40 in G minor, K. 550: IV. Allegro assai

6:10

6:10

38

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Every once in a while..."

1:44

1:44

39

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Last week..."

2:24

2:24

40

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Amen, says Noam Chomsky..."

2:09

2:09

41

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "I suppose what Chomsky is really after..."

2:49

2:49

42

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "So, let's pull up our socks..."

1:36

1:36

43

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "All right, let's try another one..."

2:08

2:08

44

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Why am I taking your time..."

2:12

2:12

45

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Well then..."

1:48

1:48

46

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "I think it follows..."

1:53

1:53

47

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "But first, what are these principles..."

1:49

1:49

48

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Transformational grammar..."

1:36

1:36

49

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "But now just think of that sentence..."

1:01

1:01

50

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Since this is not a linguistics class..."

1:49

1:49

51

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Take the passive transformation..."

1:50

1:50

52

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Well, it hasn't brought us there..."

1:51

1:51

53

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Good - now just as three notes are linked together..."

1:43

1:43

54

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Now let's go back..."

1:49

1:49

55

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Now we are ready..."

2:27

2:27

56

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Now I want to take you..."

2:05

2:05

57

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Well, transformation, deletion, embedding, pronominalization..."

1:48

1:48

58

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "I am sure I don't have to trouble..."

2:16

2:16

59

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Here I go..."

1:31

1:31

60

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "I have asked myself..."

1:55

1:55

61

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "I became so fascinated..."

1:43

1:43

62

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Let's take one such utterance..."

2:01

2:01

63

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Now imagine..."

1:29

1:29

64

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Now let's see..."

2:33

2:33

65

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Mozart's G minor Symphony..."

1:21

1:21

66

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Now our job is..."

2:27

2:27

67

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "That introductory accompaniment..."

1:26

1:26

68

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "What does this three-note design mean..."

1:55

1:55

69

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "The reason I pick symmetry..."

2:13

2:13

70

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Now from here on..."

2:05

2:05

71

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "And once again, we are back..."

1:10

1:10

72

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "By far the chief transformational principle..."

1:42

1:42

73

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "You see, one of the great failings..."

1:57

1:57

74

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Most people hearing Mozart's opening..."

1:45

1:45

75

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "So what, you ask..."

1:59

1:59

76

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "And if you are still not convinced..."

2:32

2:32

77

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "These ambiguities..."

1:20

1:20

78

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "For instance, in this same first movement..."

1:59

1:59

79

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "So all these syntactic transformations of the same material..."

1:14

1:14

80

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "He talks about this sonnet..."

1:55

1:55

81

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Because now it's time..."

1:35

1:35

82

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "But now let's listen to..."

2:09

2:09

83

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Listen to the whole exposition..."

2:02

2:02

84

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "Development coming up..."

2:08

2:08

85

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "The circle of fifths again..."

2:03

2:03

86

Vol. 2: Musical Syntax: "And that was all one single sentence..."

1:17

1:17

87

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "The other day..."

2:37

2:37

88

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "The first would show us one meaning..."

1:13

1:13

89

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Think of this famous passage..."

2:23

2:23

90

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "A linguist would say..."

1:53

1:53

91

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Well, I replied, Chomsky would say..."

2:06

2:06

92

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Of course, that last metaphorical leap..."

1:50

1:50

93

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Terrific, said my blonde inquisitor..."

1:44

1:44

94

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "In fact, when you think of the number..."

2:16

2:16

95

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "All right, first let's look briefly..."

2:42

2:42

96

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Playing, that's the word..."

1:48

1:48

97

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "But does this Stravinskian game concept..."

2:31

2:31

98

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "There are three specific ways..."

2:03

2:03

99

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Now, having defined my usages of metaphor..."

1:58

1:58

100

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "And here we are in trouble..."

1:06

1:06

101

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Are we feeling what Beethoven supposedly felt..."

1:44

1:44

102

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "We will never know..."

2:23

2:23

103

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Now, if we accept this general idea..."

1:40

1:40

104

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "In our last lecture..."

1:47

1:47

105

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "We all recognize antithesis..."

1:47

1:47

106

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "It can and it does..."

1:24

1:24

107

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "And again, as in the poem..."

2:14

2:14

108

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "In fact, it has been authoritatively suggested..."

2:46

2:46

109

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "We can expand the idea..."

2:51

2:51

110

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "What do you suppose..."

2:51

2:51

111

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "What's seriously striking..."

2:16

2:16

112

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "So why the Pastorale in this lecture..."

2:42

2:42

113

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Let's begin at the beginning..."

1:41

1:41

114

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "But what of the more obvious melodic material..."

1:47

1:47

115

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "But to develop how..."

2:38

2:38

116

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Now we have an insight..."

2:13

2:13

117

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "But wait..."

1:53

1:53

118

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "But why were just those two notes added..."

2:05

2:05

119

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "The metaphor arises..."

2:48

2:48

120

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "But in the ensuing four bars..."

2:11

2:11

121

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "But that's not the main event..."

2:05

2:05

122

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Well, that's the beginning..."

1:58

1:58

123

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "That's one of the questions..."

2:00

2:00

124

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "This interference of the two frequencies..."

2:04

2:04

125

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "But what are we to say..."

1:40

1:40

126

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "It is to be found..."

1:39

1:39

127

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Now that's one way of looking..."

2:03

2:03

128

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "At this point..."

1:36

1:36

129

Vol. 3: Musical Semantics: "Even if you can succeed..."

2:42

2:42

130

Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 68 "Pastoral": I. Erwachen Heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande, Allegro ma non troppo

11:07

11:07

131

Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 68 "Pastoral": II. Szene am Bach. Andante molto moto

13:42

13:42

132

Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 68 "Pastoral": III. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute. Allegro

5:28

5:28

133

Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 68 "Pastoral": IV. Gewitter, Sturm. Allegro

3:43

3:43

134

Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 68 "Pastoral": V. Hirtengesang. Frohe und Dankbare Gefühle Nach dem Sturm. Allegretto

10:15

10:15

135

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "When I first wrote down the title..."

1:41

1:41

136

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Part of the danger..."

2:02

2:02

137

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "The idea of ambiguity..."

1:32

1:32

138

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Similarly, in our second lecture..."

2:06

2:06

139

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Then what's the magic secret..."

2:53

2:53

140

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Enough of ambiguity..."

1:52

1:52

141

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "The irony of all this..."

2:07

2:07

142

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "But, mind you..."

1:53

1:53

143

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Where music was concerned..."

1:29

1:29

144

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Only think of..."

1:58

1:58

145

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "And Chopin: well, we can't ignore Chopin..."

2:53

2:53

146

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "And then, in the same little mazurka..."

1:56

1:56

147

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Foolish questions..."

1:34

1:34

148

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Let me try to read you..."

1:56

1:56

149

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Listen to this..."

1:45

1:45

150

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "They began to intermingle..."

1:30

1:30

151

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "The pivotal point..."

1:39

1:39

152

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "So there is a dramatic change..."

1:50

1:50

153

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "So it is after all not so surprising..."

2:31

2:31

154

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Now if you noticed..."

1:40

1:40

155

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "You see, the music is trying hard..."

1:44

1:44

156

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "So that instant in musical time..."

1:33

1:33

157

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Now Romeo is all stirred up..."

3:01

3:01

158

Roméo et Juliette, op. 17 (Excerpts) 1. Roméo seul - Tristesse - Bruits lointains de concert et de bal – Grande fête chez Capulet : Andante malinconico e sostenuto -

4:29

4:29

159

Roméo et Juliette, op. 17 (Excerpts) 1. Roméo seul - Tristesse - Bruits lointains de concert et de bal – Grande fête chez Capulet : Allegro - Larghetto espressivo -

1:57

1:57

160

Roméo et Juliette, op. 17 (Excerpts) 1. Roméo seul - Tristesse - Bruits lointains de concert et de bal – Grande fête chez Capulet : Allegro -

2:22

2:22

161

Roméo et Juliette, op. 17 (Excerpts) 1. Roméo seul - Tristesse - Bruits lointains de concert et de bal – Grande fête chez Capulet : Réunion des deux Thèmes, du Larghetto et de l’Allegro

3:46

3:46

162

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "What a piece..."

2:30

2:30

163

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Quite unconsciously borrowed..."

1:50

1:50

164

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "My purpose in all this..."

2:26

2:26

165

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Is it, says Wagner..."

2:15

2:15

166

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Every diminished seventh chord..."

1:23

1:23

167

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Now the remarkable thing is..."

2:54

2:54

168

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "And this is what gives Tristan..."

2:54

2:54

169

Tristan und Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod

19:05

19:05

170

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "That may be the slowest performance..."

2:25

2:25

171

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "But ultimately..."

1:38

1:38

172

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Poetry has begun to show..."

1:41

1:41

173

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "And when Debussy..."

1:37

1:37

174

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "It's lovely, this dreaming..."

2:35

2:35

175

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "For example, do you remember..."

1:45

1:45

176

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "In fact, the ending of this piece..."

1:17

1:17

177

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Let me show you briefly..."

2:07

2:07

178

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "This new episode that proceeds..."

1:24

1:24

179

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "For instance, hardly have we had time..."

2:29

2:29

180

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Because the scale..."

1:53

1:53

181

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "It's almost exactly what happens..."

1:51

1:51

182

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Literally translated..."

1:35

1:35

183

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "But notice, too, that the example..."

1:34

1:34

184

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Both works have definitive beginnings..."

1:32

1:32

185

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Listen as I play..."

1:51

1:51

186

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune: Très modéré

10:25

10:25

187

Vol. 4: The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity: "Some crazy modern music..."

1:04

1:04

188

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Our lecture tonight..."

0:18

0:18

189

Rapsodie espagnole: IV. Feria: Assez animé

6:33

6:33

190

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "What a way to enter the twentieth century..."

1:38

1:38

191

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "But 1908, if the truth to be told..."

1:28

1:28

192

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "These troubling presentiments..."

2:19

2:19

193

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "So, now in 1908..."

2:11

2:11

194

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "This is atonality..."

2:30

2:30

195

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "A charming idea..."

0:28

0:28

196

The Unanswered Question

5:23

5:23

197

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Is that luminous final triad..."

2:16

2:16

198

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "I have recently been reading..."

1:59

1:59

199

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "We have already referred to some of those..."

3:02

3:02

200

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "In any case..."

1:57

1:57

201

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "But for all these reasons..."

2:46

2:46

202

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Son of Tristan..."

2:31

2:31

203

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Now you look at those first two bars..."

2:20

2:20

204

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Of course, there are lots..."

1:56

1:56

205

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "It's as though a new covenant..."

1:40

1:40

206

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Trouble is, that the new musical rules..."

2:22

2:22

207

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "The kind of tonal feeling..."

2:53

2:53

208

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Of course, there are those who say..."

1:40

1:40

209

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "It seems somehow inevitable..."

2:17

2:17

210

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Is there possibly the beginning..."

2:47

2:47

211

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "And what about Beethoven's Ninth..."

2:44

2:44

212

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "These are some of the problems..."

2:40

2:40

213

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Now let's jump ahead..."

2:23

2:23

214

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Let's put it another way..."

2:10

2:10

215

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "First of all, Berg chose a tone row..."

1:54

1:54

216

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "So, all in all..."

0:52

0:52

217

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: I. Andante - Allegretto

2:23

2:23

218

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "Fantastic..."

2:50

2:50

219

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "It comes at a point..."

2:47

2:47

220

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra: II. Allegro - Adagio

2:53

2:53

221

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "If this particularly demanding lecture..."

1:21

1:21

222

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "If you really have been thinking..."

2:13

2:13

223

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "But while restudying this work..."

2:21

2:21

224

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "The twentieth century..."

1:39

1:39

225

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "What do you do if you know all this..."

2:35

2:35

226

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "It's very strange, how the pieces..."

2:11

2:11

227

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "What exactly was this news..."

1:59

1:59

228

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "We emerge from a cinema..."

1:55

1:55

229

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "As you listen to this finale..."

2:35

2:35

230

Vol. 5: The Twentieth Century Crisis: "This is Mahler..."

2:41

2:41

231

Symphony no. 9 in D major: IV. Adagio. Sehr langsam und noch zurückhaltend

23:00

23:00

232

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "I know what you are thinking..."

1:53

1:53

233

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "What about this..."

1:27

1:27

234

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "I am plaguing you with this question..."

1:45

1:45

235

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Of course what he is really talking about..."

2:05

2:05

236

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But it was precisely..."

1:58

1:58

237

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Now I have just used two words..."

1:55

1:55

238

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "In fact, it was Satie, Picasso, and Cocteau..."

2:20

2:20

239

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But our scene..."

1:53

1:53

240

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Even in the most..."

2:03

2:03

241

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "For our purposes..."

2:11

2:11

242

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Musicologists are always pointing..."

1:56

1:56

243

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But bitonality does not only serve..."

2:20

2:20

244

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Of course, polytonality can and does..."

2:09

2:09

245

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Now what's going on..."

2:21

2:21

246

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "And while you are in that record shop..."

2:15

2:15

247

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Of course, these asymmetries..."

1:53

1:53

248

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Brutal it may be..."

1:32

1:32

249

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Now, remember..."

1:59

1:59

250

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "These are two sets..."

1:59

1:59

251

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Just cast an eye..."

2:44

2:44

252

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Now that page of music..."

2:59

2:59

253

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But the most striking semantic effect..."

1:39

1:39

254

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "This new aesthetic relaxation..."

2:11

2:11

255

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Even some Germans..."

2:06

2:06

256

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "You can see how the transformation..."

1:55

1:55

257

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Chomsky himself gives a classic example..."

2:08

2:08

258

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Very important, the ironic element..."

2:39

2:39

259

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "So, it would seem..."

2:17

2:17

260

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But this neoclassic approach..."

1:11

1:11

261

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "I think this is again a moment..."

2:06

2:06

262

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "It's the essence..."

2:34

2:34

263

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "If this poem were rewritten..."

1:20

1:20

264

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Why have I digressed..."

1:46

1:46

265

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Now can you understand..."

1:37

1:37

266

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Untermeyer called this..."

1:42

1:42

267

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Of course, with The Waste Land..."

1:17

1:17

268

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But the thing of it all is..."

1:31

1:31

269

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "We are going to hear..."

1:35

1:35

270

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "One has only learnt to get..."

2:45

2:45

271

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Now i propose only because..."

2:23

2:23

272

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "This union is possible only because..."

2:57

2:57

273

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But what has all this to do with Stravinsky..."

2:21

2:21

274

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "And this is the essence..."

2:14

2:14

275

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Look: here is a joke..."

2:02

2:02

276

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Chilling, shattering, neoclassic..."

1:46

1:46

277

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Stravinsky's own aesthetic pronouncements..."

2:03

2:03

278

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But of course he was forced..."

1:31

1:31

279

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "And now we are finally ready..."

2:36

2:36

280

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "And then Mozart appears..."

2:35

2:35

281

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But this eclecticism knows no bounds..."

1:45

1:45

282

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Now all this I had planned to tell you..."

1:33

1:33

283

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "You think that's funny..."

2:43

2:43

284

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "How about that..."

2:56

2:56

285

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Then came the answer..."

2:41

2:41

286

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "But why this particular misalliance..."

1:22

1:22

287

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "My words are poor..."

1:58

1:58

288

Oedipus Rex: Prologue: "You are about to hear a Latin version of Oedipus the King"

0:58

0:58

289

Oedipus Rex: Act I: "Caedit nos pestis"

4:05

4:05

290

Oedipus Rex: Act I: "Liberi, vos liberabo"

3:29

3:29

291

Oedipus Rex: Act I: "This is Creon, brother-in-law of Oedipus"

0:26

0:26

292

Oedipus Rex: Act I: "Respondit deus"

6:38

6:38

293

Oedipus Rex: Act I:" Oedipus questions the Fountain of Truth"

2:44

2:44

294

Oedipus Rex: Act I: "Dicere non possum"

5:22

5:22

295

Oedipus Rex: Act I: "Gloria!"

1:11

1:11

296

Oedipus Rex: Act II: "The dispute of the princes attracts the attention of Jocasta"

2:10

2:10

297

Oedipus Rex: Act II: "Nonn' erubescite, reges"

4:25

4:25

298

Oedipus Rex: Act II: "Ne probentur oracula"

3:20

3:20

299

Oedipus Rex: Act II: "Ego senem cecici"

2:07

2:07

300

Oedipus Rex: Act II: "The witness to the murder comes out of the shadow"

0:44

0:44

301

Oedipus Rex: Act II: "Adest omniscius pastor"

4:32

4:32

302

Oedipus Rex: Act II: "Nonne monstrum rescituri"

3:24

3:24

303

Oedipus Rex: Act II: "And now you are going to hear that famous monolog..."

1:38

1:38

304

Oedipus Rex: Act II: "Divum Jocastae caput mortuum!"

3:09

3:09

305

Oedipus Rex: Act II: "Ecce! Regem Oedipoda"

2:46

2:46

306

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Va-le-di-co..."

2:06

2:06

307

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "During that decade..."

1:46

1:46

308

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "It was at this point that I wrote..."

1:43

1:43

309

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "What interests me about it..."

2:15

2:15

310

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "Is it possible..."

1:51

1:51

311

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "It's as tough in the period..."

2:52

2:52

312

Vol. 6: The Poetry of Earth: "And I believe..."

2:40

2:40

Current tour

Leonard Bernstein is on tour now!

Leonard Bernstein will be next performing at Forum Leverkusen on Wednesday 13 May 2026, and is scheduled to play 2 concerts across 1 countries in 2026.

Upcoming Concerts