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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 as this 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.”
The DVD presents the videotaped recording sessions which were at times both tense and exhilarating and documents the triumphs and tribulations of crafting the definitive statement of the composer’s best-known opus.
Title: Bernstein - West Side Story
Format: CD
Release Date: 12 Jan 2018
Artist: Kiri Kanawa Te : Jose Carreras
Sku: 2362721
Catalogue No: 4798681
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
Tonight (Ensemble)
The Rumble
I 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
DISC 2
Excerpt for Intro
“I feel Pretty” (Piano Rehearsal)
First session: introduction of the principals
Tonight
"Jet Song" (recording)
"Cool" (recording)
“Tonight” (Piano Rehearsal)
"Something's Coming" (recording: take, playback, retakes)
Troyanos on working with Bernstein "Tonight (Ensemble)" (recording)
"Tonight (Ensemble)" (recording- contd.)
"I Feel Pretty"
Te Kanawa on working with Bernstein
Problem passages, "Dance at the Gym" (recording & playbacks)
Bernstein talks to the press "Dance at the Gym" (recording-contd.)
"Meeting Scene"
Te Kanawa on West Side Story, "Somewhere" (recording)
Troyanos on recording, "America" (rehearsal and recording)
"One Hand, One Heart" (recording)
Te Kanawa on singing Bernstein's music
"Maria" (piano rehearsal)
"Maria" (recording)
Carreras on the Interruption, "Maria" (recording- contd.)
Te Kanawa on working with Berstein
"A Boy like that" "I have love" (recording)
"Gee, Officer Krupke" (recording)
"Balcony Scene" (recording)
Berstein on recording West side Story, "Balcony Scene" (recording)
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