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This is a 'live' recording of a 2011 concert conducted by Christoph Eschenbach marking the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy's Inaugural Concert of 1961. It includes the world premiere of Peter Lieberson's Remembering JFK, which struck me as worthy but dull, not helped by Richard Dreyfuss' flat narration. This sort of thing was done so much better by Copland (his Lincoln Portrait). There is a performance of Gershwin's Piano Concerto with a very disengaged-sounding Tzimon Barto; the slow movement, usually 10-11 minutes, here takes 15:40! The performance of the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story is very good but on its own can't rescue the concert.
What is worthwhile is the 'bonus' CD, containing excerpts (including radio narration) from that 1961 concert. This takes you back vividly to that time and place, with patriotic works by John La Montaine and Randall Thompson, and a sizzling performance of Rhapsody in Blue with the irrepressible Earl Wild. The orchestra is the National Symphony, and Howard Mitchell (pictured on the CD cover with the Kennedys) was their conductor from 1949 to 1969 and a champion of American composers. In some ways what you hear on this bonus CD seems old-fashioned, even quaint – but that is how they did it in those days and this is a valuable record of it.
So my rating would be two stars (at the most) for the 2011 recordings, and a solid four stars for the 1961; three stars overall.
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