Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4

Bernard, David; Park Avenue Chamber Symphony

David Bernard’s dramatic and incisive conducting is critically acclaimed as being “marked by a strong sense of the music’s structure, an outstanding feeling for orchestral texture and phrasing, and a dynamic rhythmic propulsion that makes itself felt even in quiet passages.” (Fanfare Magazine) A multiple First Prize Winner of the Orchestral Conducting Competition of The American Prize, David Bernard was described by the judges as “a first rate conductor. With no score, an animated and present Maestro Bernard led a phenomenal performance masterly in shaping, phrasing, technique and expressivity.” This release capture’s Bernard’s expert interpretations with the Park Avenue Chamber Symphonies as they perform Mendelssohn’s Third and Fourth Symphonies, two of the composer’s most beloved works.

Price: $27.98