Featured In
ALBUMLeonard Bernstein conducts and plays Mussorgsky-Ravel, Gershwin & BernsteinLeonard Bernstein, Columbia Symphony Orchestra & New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Albums by Leonard Bernstein
ALBUMUnitedPacific Quintet
ALBUMBernstein: Serenade – Williams: Violin Concerto No. 1James Ehnes, St. Louis Symphony & Stéphane Denève
ALBUMThe Original Maestro (Remastered 2024)Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic
ALBUMIn TimeFive Sax
ALBUMRhapsody in Blue for clarinet and piano (feat. Muhiddin Dürrüoglu)Ronald van Spaendonck
ALBUMBut I Like to Sing...Carolyn Sampson & Joseph Middleton
ALBUMBernstein: Music for String QuartetLucia Lin, Natalie Rose Kress, Danny Kim & Ronald Feldman
ALBUMAmerican RhapsodiesPavlo Titiaiev & Yuka Ieda
ALBUMA Giant Beside YouBenjamin Verdery & Ulysses Quartet
ALBUMWe'll Meet AgainJanne Fredens, Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Søren Rastogi & Anders Banke
Leonard Bernstein's Popular Music Videos
Somewhere (Live in Japan)
Il Divo
Tonight (Live in Japan)
Il Divo
Candide Overture (Live at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, 1994)
Zubin Mehta & Los Angeles Philharmonic
America (Live at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, 1994)
Zubin Mehta, José Carreras, Luciano Pavarotti & Plácido Domingo
Candide: Overture
Gustavo Dudamel & Vienna Philharmonic
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: Prologue, Somewhere, Scherzo & Mambo
Daniel Harding & Vienna Philharmonic
Marin Alsop on Candide
Marin Alsop & London Symphony Orchestra
Bernstein: West Side Story Suite: I. America (Version for Solo Violin and String Orchestra)
Daniel Hope & Zürcher Kammerorchester
"Candide": Overture
Cameron Carpenter
Bernstein: West Side Story: Somewhere (Live at Borchardt, Berlin / 2018)
Nadine Sierra & Holger Groschopp
Artist Playlists
Leonard Bernstein Conductor Essentials
Witness the legacy of the greatest and most versatile US conductor of the 20th century.
Leonard Bernstein Composer Essentials
An original and sophisticated American voice that brilliantly fused music from all genres.
Artist Biography
One of the most prodigiously gifted musicians in American history, Leonard Bernstein was a popularizing presence across many disciplines: orchestral music, Broadway musicals, ballet, film, and television. Born in 1918 in Lawrence, Mass., he studied composition at Harvard University and conducting at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Tanglewood Music Center. Early on, it seemed as though the concert podium would take priority. In 1943, Bernstein was summoned, without rehearsal, to fill in for an ailing Bruno Walter at the New York Philharmonic, effectively launching his global conducting career. Yet before long, he was being touted as the potential savior of the American musical, embarking on scores for On the Town (1944), Wonderful Town (1953), Candide (1956), and the future juggernaut West Side Story (1957). Bernstein explored religious and philosophical themes in his symphonic and choral music, notably the Symphony No. 3 “Kaddish” (1963), the jazzy Chichester Psalms (1965), and the freewheeling Mass (1971). Bernstein’s role as music director of the New York Philharmonic (1958-69) provided the biggest platform for his communicative talents: he championed works by Mahler and Sibelius and starred in the Philharmonic's televised Young People’s Concerts. A complicated figure offstage, Bernstein was idealistic to the core, and when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, he conducted two performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (1824) in East and West Berlin. He died in 1990.
Hometown
Lawrence, MA, United States
Genre
Classical