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Deutsche Grammophon's recording of West Side Story, made in New York in September 1984, represents Bernstein's final vision for his great American musical.
This wasn't a typical 'cast recording:' everybody was recruited especially for the job and moulded, literally overnight, into a musical team.
It was, to say the least, a highly unlikely cast for what was basically a Broadway show, but asthis was not a staged production, the rather unorthodox step of casting world-class opera singers was taken to bring out the musical strengths of Bernstein's inspiration: "I suppose the only foreseeable problem was that they might sound too old -but they don't, they just sound marvellous!" Bernstein was to recount.
For Bernstein, who had never conducted the work before, it was an opportunity to explore the work as he had envisioned it, unrestricted by the medium of the LP or the size of the orchestra pit or the dramatic staging of the work: For the recording, the potpourri overture which was originally used in the theatre and which Bernstein himself did not write was discarded, the string section was enlarged, and the woodwind section expanded, and Bernstein allowed himself to take the tempos "as I really dreamed it."
Title: Bernstein - West Side Story
Format: CD
Release Date: 22 Mar 2019
Artist: Leonard Bernstein
Sku: 2260625
Catalogue No: 4571992
Category: Classical
DISC 1
Prologue
Jet Song
Something's Coming
The Dance At The Gym - Blues
The Dance At The Gym - Promenade
The Dance At The Gym - Mambo
The Dance At The Gym - Cha-Cha
The Dance At The Gym - Meeting Scene
The Dance At The Gym - Jump
Maria
Tonight - Balcony Scene
America
Cool
One Hand, One Heart
1Tonight (Ensemble)
1The Rumble
1I Feel Pretty
Ballet Sequence - Beginning
Ballet Sequence - Transition To Scherzo
Ballet Sequence - Scherzo
Ballet Sequence - Somewhere
Ballet Sequence - Procession And Nightmare
Gee, Officer Krupke
A Boy Like That
I Have A Love
Taunting Scene
Finale
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