An American Life

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  On the Town: New York, New York
  4:04
• 2
  Fancy Free: “Big Stuff” Blues
  1:58
• 3
  Facsimile – Choreographic Essay for Orchestra (excerpt)
  7:01
• 4
  Prelude, Fugue and Riffs for Clarinet and Jazz Ensemble: Riffs (for Everyone)
  4:34
• 5
  On the Town: Lonely Town: Pas de Deux
  3:43
• 6
  On the Town: Lucky to Be Me
  3:09
• 7
  Symphony No. 1 “Jeremiah”: Lamentation: Lento
  10:30
• 8
  On the Town: Some Other Time
  4:33
• 9
  Fanfare for the Common Man

  Aaron Copland
  3:17
• 10
  Serenade: Aristophanes Allegretto
  4:17
• 11
  Candide: The Best of All Possible Worlds
  2:46
• 12
  Symphony No. 2 “The Age of Anxiety”: The Masque
  4:47
• 13
  Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K. 453: Allegretto

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  7:56
• 14
  The Unanswered Question

  Charles Ives
  6:13
• 15
  Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: Somewhere
  4:36
• CD 2
• 1
  Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 “Pathétique”: First Movement (excerpt)

  Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  5:26
• 2
  I Feel Pretty
  2:40
• 3
  Syphonie “Mathis der Maler”: Engelkonzert

  Paul Hindemith
  9:06
• 4
  Dybbuk Suite No. 2: Kabbalah Variations
  6:40
• 5
  West Side Story: Something’s Coming
  3:59
• 6
  Songfest: A Julia de Burgos
  3:32
• 7
  Three Meditations From “Mass”: Andante Sosenuto - Var. I‐IV - Coda
  4:12
• 8
  Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor: Adagietto

  Gustav Mahler
  11:20
• 9
  Chichester Psalms: Psalm 108, 2 / Psalm 100
  3:40
• 10
  Symphony No. 3: Allegro Molto

  Aaron Copland
  8:09
• 11
  Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 “Choral”: “Ode to Freedom” (excerpt)

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  8:01
• 12
  Candide: Make Our Garden Grow
  5:46
• 13
  Four Sea Interludes From “Peter Grimes”, Op. 33a: Dawn

  Benjamin Britten
  3:43

More by Leonard Bernstein

On the Waterfront

On the Waterfront 2014

The Complete Mahler Symphonies

The Complete Mahler Symphonies 2012

The Symphonies / Orchestral Works / Violin Concerto / Double Concerto

The Symphonies / Orchestral Works / Violin Concerto / Double Concerto 2004

Beethoven: Concerto for Violin / Bernstein: Serenade

Beethoven: Concerto for Violin / Bernstein: Serenade 1999

Strauss: Don Quixote / Schumann: Cello Concerto

Strauss: Don Quixote / Schumann: Cello Concerto 1998

The Rite of Spring / The Firebird Suite

The Rite of Spring / The Firebird Suite 1998

Release credits

• Adolph Green
  baritone vocals [12]
• Christa Ludwig
  mezzo-soprano vocals [12]
• Della Jones
  mezzo-soprano vocals [12]
• Jerry Hadley
  tenor vocals [12]
• June Anderson
  soprano vocals [12]
• Kurt Ollmann
  baritone vocals [12]
• Leonard Bernstein
  conductor [12]
• London Symphony Chorus
  choir vocals [12]
• London Symphony Orchestra
  performing orchestra [12]
• Nicolai Gedda
  tenor vocals [12]

Issues

• A
  An American Life

  2x CD
  2004