Composer: Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland
Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin, Edo de Waart
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 6486452
Release: 2010
Size: 606 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
Copland: Billy The Kid
01. Introduction: The Open Prairie
02. Street In A Frontier Town
03. Mexican Dance And Finale
04. Prairie Night (Card Game At Night)
05. Gun Battle
06. Celebration (After Billy’s Capture) (1999 Digital Remaster)
07. Billy In Prison (His Escape)
08. Billy In The Desert (Waltz)
09. Billy’s Death
10. The Open Prairie Again
Copland: Appalachian Spring
11. Very Slowly (1999 – Remaster)
12. Allegro (1999 – Remaster)
13. Moderato: The Bride And Her Intended
14. Fast: The Revivalist And His Flock
15. Allegro: Solo Dance Of The Bartered Bride
16. Meno Mosso
17. Doppio Movimento – Variations On A Shaker Hymn
18. Moderato: Coda
Copland: Rodeo
19. Corral Nocturne
20. IV. Hoe-Down (Suite)
CD 02
Bernstein: Fancy Free
01. I. Big Stuff (Introduction to ‘Fancy Free’ , jukebox style)
02. II. Opening Dance
03. III. Scene at the Bar
04. IV. Girls’ Entrance
05. V. Pas de deux
06. VI. Competition Scene
07. VII. Variations I (Galop)
08. VIII. Variations II (Waltz)
09. IX. Variation III (Danzon)
10. X. Finale
11. Bernstein: Facsimile
Bernstein: On the Town – Three Dance Episodes
12. III. Times Square – 1944
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
13. No. 1, Prologue
14. No. 2, Somewhere
15. No. 3, Scherzo
16. No. 4, Mambo
17. No. 5, Cha-cha
18. No. 6, Meeting Scene
19. No. 7, Cool. Fugue
20. No. 8, Rumble
21. No. 9, Finale
Following the huge success of the previous release of outstanding ballet product, including the magnificent 50 CD box set A FESTIVAL OF BALLET, the ten BALLET EDITION albums and I LOVE BALLET, EMI Classics presents a further eight albums of ballet music.
These 2CD mid-price sets, drawn from the catalogues of EMI Classics and Virgin Classics, present a selection of the best-loved and most popular ballet music by the great composers, performed by the world’s leading artists.
Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein were two outstanding American composers who both contributed hugely to the musical scene in the USA. Both wrote ballets that broke new ground: Copland on themes that echoed the vast and lonely expanses of the American prairies, and Bernstein on the hectic life in New York in the middle of the 20th century. This album presents complete performances of Copland’s Billy the Kid and Appalachian Spring and Bernstein’s Fancy Free and Facsimile, as well as extracts from other works including Bernstein’s powerful Symphonic Dances from his smash hit musical West Side Story.