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