Formats and Editions
1. Missa Brevis: Kyrie
2. Missa Brevis: Gloria
3. Missa Brevis: Sanctus
4. Missa Brevis: Benedictus
5. Missa Brevis: Agnus Dei
6. Missa Brevis: Dona Nobis Pacem
7. Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish": Ia. Invocation
8. Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish": Ib. Kaddish 1
9. Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish": Iia. Din Torah
10. Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish": Iib. Kaddish 2
11. Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish": Iiia. Scherzo
12. Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish": Iiib. Kaddish 3
13. Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish": Iiic. Finale
14. Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish": Iiic. Fugue
15. The Lark (2012 Concert Version With Narrator By N.G. Lew And M. Alsop)
More Info:
Three examples of Leonard Berstine's vocal art can be heard in this recording. His Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish" shuns traditional symphonic ideas in favor of an eclectic theatrical and oratorio-like form with a prominent role for speaker. For this recording Marin Alsop has returned to the work's original narrative text, heard before the 1977 revision. The Lark - heard in a concert version with added narration - derives from Lillian Hellman's adaptation of L'Alouette on the life of Joan of Arc, and it was this music that Bernstein reworked into his Missa Brevis many years later.