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West Side Story

Leonard Bernstein

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This delightful and revelatory recording accomplishes something that composer Leonard Bernstein attempted and failed to achieve more than a decade earlier. West Side Story has its operatic moments, enough that Bernstein in the 1980s did a recording with major operatic singers in the roles -- the problem was that those same singers were all significantly too old for the roles they were singing, so it came off as the "geezer" version of West Side Story, albeit technically beautiful. The late Kenneth Schermerhorn and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra have now fulfilled what Bernstein set out to do, and one better -- going back to his original score, before adaptations were made for the needs of the Broadway stage and pit (or the Hollywood orchestra, in the case of the movie), they've brought the piece back to its first completed state. And, with Betsi Morrison, Mike Eldred, Mariane Cook, Michael San Giovanni, and Robert Dean -- who are at least within a few years of the ages of their respective characters, and sing their roles with a bracing, infectiously youthful verve -- they've presented the most exciting rendition of West Side Story heard on record in many-a-year. What's more, it's beautifully played and recorded virtually to perfection, so much so that its one real flaw is a cold, near-sterility that's always a risk with a studio cast and recording on a piece like this -- but that brush with imperfection aside, at Naxos Records' usual budget price, this CD could be, note for note, one of the biggest bargains going, and it might be the best way to discover the music, short of seeing an actual performance on-stage.
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West Side Story

Marianne Cooke

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West Side Story, Act I (Leonard Bernstein)

1
Prologue
00:04:16

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

2
Jet Song
00:02:34

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

3
Something's Coming
00:02:48

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

4
Blues
00:01:52

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

5
Promenade
00:00:22

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

6
Mambo
00:02:44

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

7
Maria
00:03:06

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

8
Balcony Scene / Tonight
00:07:22

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

9
America
00:04:57

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

10
Cool
00:04:36

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

11
One Hand, One Heart
00:04:59

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

12
Tonight
00:03:54

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

13
The Rumble
00:03:11

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

West Side Story, Act II (Leonard Bernstein)

14
I Feel Pretty
00:03:56

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

15
Ballet Sequence
00:01:30

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

16
Transition to Scherzo
00:00:41

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

17
Scherzo
00:01:40

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

18
Somewhere
00:02:38

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

19
Procession and Nightmare
00:03:41

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

20
Gee Officer Krupke
00:04:21

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

21
A Boy Like That / I Have a Love
00:06:03

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

22
Taunting Scene
00:01:06

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

23
Finale
00:02:51

Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Stephen Sondheim, Lyricist - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Mike Eldred, Performer - Kenneth Schermerhorn, Conductor - Betsi Morrison, Performer - Robert Dean, Performer - Marianne Cooke, Performer - Michael San Giovanni, Performer

2002 Naxos 2002 Naxos

Album review

This delightful and revelatory recording accomplishes something that composer Leonard Bernstein attempted and failed to achieve more than a decade earlier. West Side Story has its operatic moments, enough that Bernstein in the 1980s did a recording with major operatic singers in the roles -- the problem was that those same singers were all significantly too old for the roles they were singing, so it came off as the "geezer" version of West Side Story, albeit technically beautiful. The late Kenneth Schermerhorn and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra have now fulfilled what Bernstein set out to do, and one better -- going back to his original score, before adaptations were made for the needs of the Broadway stage and pit (or the Hollywood orchestra, in the case of the movie), they've brought the piece back to its first completed state. And, with Betsi Morrison, Mike Eldred, Mariane Cook, Michael San Giovanni, and Robert Dean -- who are at least within a few years of the ages of their respective characters, and sing their roles with a bracing, infectiously youthful verve -- they've presented the most exciting rendition of West Side Story heard on record in many-a-year. What's more, it's beautifully played and recorded virtually to perfection, so much so that its one real flaw is a cold, near-sterility that's always a risk with a studio cast and recording on a piece like this -- but that brush with imperfection aside, at Naxos Records' usual budget price, this CD could be, note for note, one of the biggest bargains going, and it might be the best way to discover the music, short of seeing an actual performance on-stage.
© TiVo

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