FLAC (tracks) | Classical | 53 min | 257 MB
No figure in 20th century American classical music had as prominent or controversial a career — or did more to sell classical music to the general public as something genuinely exciting, and worth getting into a sweat over — than Leonard Bernstein. For more than 30 years, from his assumption of the post of Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in 1958 until the final concerts that he conducted in obviously failing health near the end of his life in 1990, he was the most prominent and widely recognized American-born conductor in the world, and the dominant personality in American classical music as both a conductor and, to a lesser degree, a composer.
1. Candide: Overture (4:18)
2. Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: No. 1, Prologue (4:25)
3. Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: No. 2, Somewhere (4:34)
4. Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: No. 3, Scherzo (1:24)
5. Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: No. 4, Mambo (2:25)
6. Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: No. 5, Cha-cha (2:26)
7. Divertimento for Orchestra: V. Turkey Trot (1:59)
8. West Side Story, Act 1: “Tonight” (3:49)
9. West Side Story, Act 2: “I Feel Pretty” (2:14)
10. Candide, Act 1: “Glitter and Be Gay” (Instrumental Version) (4:14)
11. Wonderful Town, Act 2: “Wrong Note Rag” (2:26)
12. Fancy Free: No. 3, Enter Two Girls (2:50)
13. West Side Story, Act 1: “Maria” (2:50)
14. Prelude, Fugue & Riffs: I. Prelude for the Brass (1:49)
15. Prelude, Fugue & Riffs: II. Fugue for the Saxes (1:54)
16. Symphony No. 2 “The Age of Anxiety”, Pt. 2: The Masque (4:27)
17. 3 Dance Episodes from On the Town: No. 3, Times Square, 1944 (5:29)