Bernstein: Wonderful Town London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle

• Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990): Wonderful Town:
• 1 No. 1, Overture 05:10
• Act I:
• 2 No. 2. Christopher Street 05:05
• 3 No. 3. Ohio 03:42
• 4 No. 4. Conquering New York 04:11
• 5 No. 5. One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Man 03:48
• 6 No. 6. What a Waste 03:40
• 7 No. 8. A Little Bit in Love 03:09
• 8 No. 9. Pass the Football 04:04
• 9 No. 10. Conversation Piece 04:01
• 10 No. 11. A Quiet Girl 04:04
• 11 No. 12. Conga! 03:47
• 12 No. 13: Entr'acte 03:50
• Act II:
• 13 No. 14. My Darlin' Eileen 03:54
• 14 No. 15. Swing! 05:24
• 15 No. 16. Quiet Incidental 00:49
• 16 No. 16a. Ohio (Reprise) 01:24
• 17 No. 17. It's Love 03:31
• 18 No. 18. Ballet at the Village Vortex 02:47
• 19 No. 19. Wrong Note Rag 02:22
• 20 No. 19a. It's Love (Reprise) 01:27
• (Bonus Track)
• 21 Wonderful Town, Act I: No. 12. Conga! (Audience Participation Version) 03:48
• Total Runtime 01:13:57

Info for Bernstein: Wonderful Town

Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra pay homage to former LSO President Leonard Bernstein with a new recording of Wonderful Town that captures the energy and excitement of sold-out performances from December 2017.

Bernstein’s five-time Tony award-winning musical follows sisters Ruth and Eileen on their quest to make it big, pursuing careers in writing and acting from their cramped basement apartment in New York’s bohemian Greenwich Village. Fresh from rural Ohio, the sisters end up getting more than they bargained for, realising that life in the Big Apple is not as glamourous as it may seem.

A bright and cheery love letter to the city that never sleeps and the colourful characters inhabiting it, Wonderful Town draws on Fields and Chodorov’s 1940 play My Sister Eileen, which itself is based on a series of autobiographical short storied by the ‘real-life’ Ruth McKenney.

Bernstein’s infectious score includes classic numbers such as ‘Ohio’, ‘One Hundred Easy Ways’, and ‘A Little Bit in Love’, as well as a riotous conga that had delighted audiences dancing in the aisles of the Barbican hall.

Danielle de Niese, soprano (Eileen)
Alysha Umphress, vocals (Ruth)
Nathan Gunn, baritone (Bob Baker)
Duncan Rock, baritone (Wreck)
London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Chorus
Sir Simon Rattle, conductor

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