David Bernard, Park Avenue Chamber Symphony – Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 “Pathétique” (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:13:46 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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A fixture of the orchestral scene in the New York City area, conductor David Bernard has also worked with ensembles in more than 20 countries on four continents. He is noted for his InsideOut orchestral concert concept, which involves seating the audience on-stage with the musicians.
Bernard was born in 1964. He studied both conducting and clarinet, and has been active professionally in both capacities. Bernard has conducted widely around New York, leading the South Shore Symphony, the Putnam Symphony, the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, the Litha Symphony, the Manhattan School of Music Orchestra, the Island Symphony Orchestra, and the Greater Newburgh Symphony, and the Brooklyn Symphony as a guest conductor. He serves as music director of the Massapequa Philharmonic and the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony; it is with the latter that he has developed the InsideOut concept.
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David Bernard & Park Avenue Chamber Symphony – Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:11:15 minutes | 755 MB | Genre: Classical
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Recursive Classics has announced the upcoming release of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, featuring David Bernard leading the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony. This album will be available on December 2nd, 2022 at all major retailers, download sites and streaming services.
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David Bernard & Park Avenue Chamber Symphony – Dvořák: The Late Symphonies (2021)
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Dvorak, a most personal symphonist: David Patrick Stearns assesses how Dvor’ak’s greatness was bound up with the way he saw the world.
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David Bernard, Park Avenue Chamber Symphony & David Chan – Vivaldi: The Four Seasons – Cimarosa: Oboe Concerto (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:53 minutes | 516 MB | Genre: Classical
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David Bernard is an American orchestral conductor.
David Bernard has gained recognition for his dramatic and incisive conducting in the United States and in over 20 countries on four continents. He serves as Music Director of the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony and the Massapequa Philharmonic. A multiple First Prize winner of the Orchestral Conducting Competition of The American Prize, Bernard was described in the judges’ remarks as, “a first-rate conductor…phenomenal performance…masterly in shaping, phrasing, technique and expressivity.” Lucid Culture praised Bernard’s recent Lincoln Center performance of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring”: “Conducting from memory, David Bernard led a transcendent performance. Segues were seamless, contrasts were vivid and Stravinsky’s whirling exchanges of voices were expertly choreographed.” Bernard’s complete recorded Beethoven symphony cycle was praised by Fanfare magazine for its “intensity, spontaneity, propulsive rhythm, textural clarity, dynamic control, and well-judged phrasing”. His recent premiere recording of a new edition of Stravinsky’s ‘”The Rite of Spring” was praised by Gramophone as “committed and forceful…(with) thrilling moments”.
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David Bernard & Park Avenue Chamber Symphony – Sounds of America: Barber, Copland and Bernstein (2021)
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Nothing comes quite as close, musically speaking that is, to reaching at the core of America quite like the ballet Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland (1900-1990). Despite having received his formal musical training in Paris under Nadia Boulanger and living in Brooklyn, he’s the composer who captures best the “big sky country” spirit of America, especially in works like Billy the Kid, Fanfare for the Common Man, Rodeo and his score for Of Mice and Men. The “outdoorsy” and folksy feel of Appalachian Spring, typical of Copland’s open intervals and harmonic structure, have caused it to become one of the best representations of American culture. Conductor David Bernard’s relaxed tempo for the Introduction allows for the dawn’s natural unfolding, before the full-blown awakening of nature which follows. The agrestic, corn-pone manner within the Revivalist and His Flock segment comes across well here, as well as the energetic, multi-layered rhythms of the Solo Dance of the Bride. The following Meno Mosso recapitulation of the opening sequence is highly expressive as well. The brisk tempo of the Variations on a Shaker Hymn (Simple Gifts) works very well here, and the Coda, as the sun sets in the west is heartfelt, warm and highly evocative.
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David Bernard, Park Avenue Chamber Symphon – Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 “Choral” (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:05:38 minutes | 306 MB | Genre: Classical
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”After Recursive Classics s successful launch recording with David Bernard and the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony – the world premiere recording of the new edition of Stravinsky s The Rite of Spring, and Bartok s Concerto for Orchestra – comes the blazing follow-up with the same forces; Beethoven s Symphony No. 9.
This recording was produced just prior to Bernard s and the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony s performance of this symphony at Carnegie Hall, which was praised by Paul Pelkonen of Superconductor: Mr. Bernard s presentation of the Ninth was taut and dramatic, evidence of close rapport between the conductor and his players.
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David Bernard – This Sceptered Isle: Wood, Holst, Vaughan Williams and Elgar (2022)
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A century or so ago, Haydn Wood’s name was quite well-known in Britain. The youngest of the four composers here, he was born in Yorkshire in 1882 but raised on the Isle of Man. He enrolled as a scholarship student at Royal College of Music in London at the age of 15 and progressed so swiftly that soon thereafter his abilities as a violinist impressed such visiting luminary virtuosi as Pablo de Sarasate and Joseph Joachim. He also studied composition with Charles Villiers Stanford, as did Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst. Wood composed large-scale orchestral and chamber works, but switched focus to lighter fare following his marriage to the soprano Dorothy Court in 1909. He and Court toured music halls together – she’d already established her reputation singing Gilbert and Sullivan roles with the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Savoy – and Wood composed sentimental ballads for their performances. Songs such as Roses of Picardy became enormously successful and made the Woods a small fortune. Today, Wood is remembered primarily as one of the foremost composers of a genre known as “British Light Music” (alongside Eric Coates, Albert Ketèlbey, Robert Farnon and Ronald Binge), and his orchestral miniatures such as Joyousness, Serenade to Youth and Sketch of a Dandy are as finely wrought as they are breezily tuneful.
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