Leonard Bernstein Bernstein Romance CD

Amber to relax and dream: The double album Romance portrays the conductor, composer and pianist, who would have been 100 years old on August 25, 2018, from his proverbial romantic side.

For his emotional and dramatic interpretations of great symphonic works by Mahler, Brahms or Beethoven and his unique sense for soulful melodies and great arrangements in his own compositions, Leonard Bernstein is still unforgotten today. Nobody can escape the charm of the love ballad Maria or the optimistic song Somewhere from the West Side Story and listen to it while listening to it.

But not only in their own pieces does Bernstein create this unique, intoxicating mood. On Romance, some of Bernstein's most emotional recordings are combined with legendary musical companions to a dream trip. From Edvard Grieg's Morgenstimmung (Peer Gynt Suite) with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber to the elegiac second movement Largo ma non tanto from the Violin Double Concerto BWV 1043 by Johann Sebastian Bach with star players Isaac Stern and Yehudi Menuhin. Romance is the ideal album to get to know Leonard Bernstein's unique musical work, full of emotion and emotional intensity. Hang up and dream.

The recordings are all taken from the Columbia Records catalog. Here Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra and collaborates with soloists such as the violinists Isaac Stern and Yehudi or the pianist Rudolf Serkin (Piano Concerto No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven). He also plays the double role of pianist and conductor in the piano concertos, as in the second movement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 15 or the second movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's First Piano Concerto.

Amber Romance is the perfect compilation to unwind your soul, whether at home, on the road or in the car. The high-quality recordings of this outstanding musician always create a warm, romantic, soulful mood.