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Bernstein / Wolf Trap Opera - Songfest [CD]

Bernstein / Wolf Trap Opera - Songfest [CD]

Release Date: /// Naxos American

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An American in Paris is one of Gershwin's most vivacious works, an orchestral ballet saturated in homesickness and the blues. This recording, however, uses the new 2019 critical edition and offers Gershwin's original orchestration, unheard for 75 years- leaner, more angular and transparent, it also employs the correct use of the iconic taxi horns, for a new sonic experience. The breezy vitality of Copland's An Outdoor Overture is balanced by Bernstein's Songfest- written to celebrate the Bicentennial Year in America, setting the verses of 13 of the country's poets.

Tracklist:

  1. An American In Paris
  2. An Outdoor Overture
  3. Songfest: No. 1, To The Poem
  4. Songfest: No. 2, The Pennycandy Store Beyond The El
  5. Songfest: No. 3, A Julia De Burgos
  6. Songfest: No. 4, To What You Said
  7. Songfest: No. 5, I, Too, Sing America - Okay Negroes
  8. Songfest: No. 6, To My Dear And Loving Husband
  9. Songfest: No. 7, Storyette H.M.
  10. Songfest: No. 8, If You Can't Eat You Got To
  11. Songfest: No. 9, Music I Heard With You
  12. Songfest: No. 10, Zizi's Lament
  13. Songfest: No. 11, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
  14. Songfest: No. 12, Israfel

UPC: 636943985922
Label: NAXOS AMERICAN
Release Date: 4.10.20
Format: CD

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