Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story (Carreras, Te Kanawa) [1990]

01. Prologue
02. Jet Song
03. Something's Coming
04. The Dance at the Gym/Blues
05. The Dance at the Gym/Promenade
06. The Dance at the Gym/Mambo
07. The Dance at the Gym/Cha-Cha
08. The Dance at the Gym/Meeting Scene
09. The Dance at the Gym/Jump
10. Maria
11. Balcony Scene (Tonight)
12. America
13. Cool
14. One Hand, One Heart
15. Tonight (Ensemble)
16. The Rumble
17. I Feel Pretty
18. Ballet Sequence
19. Transition to Scherzo
20. Scherzo
21. Somewhere
22. Procession and Nightmare
23. Gee, Officer Krupke
24. A Boy Like That
25. I Have a Love
26. Taunting Scene
27. Finale

Kiri Te Kanawa, Maria
Jose Carreras, Tony
Tatiana Troyanos, Anita
Kurt Ollmann, Riff
Marilyn Horne singing Somewhere

Chorus and Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein

Controversial as an essential Carreras recording, West Side Story isn't an opera, and neither is the tenor, operatic star José Carreras, an American-born Broadway singer. But the music is operatic in quality--let's say in durability. It is Bernstein's most established masterpiece, his surest claim to be remembered as a composer a century from now; the source is Shakespeare and the music has a seriousness, color, and intensity worthy of its subject. And this recording represents the way the composer wanted it to sound, with his choice of the best available voices. Carreras sounds like he was born to sing "Something's Coming," "Maria," and "Tonight." Perhaps he was born to sing them in Spanish, but opera lovers regularly take bigger language problems than that in stride for the sake of vocal quality. ---Joe McLellan, Editorial Reviews

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