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

UPC: 636943985922
Label: Naxos American
Release Date: 4.10.20
Format: CD

Bernstein / Wolf Trap Opera - Songfest (CD)