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Bernstein Favorites - Opera For Orchestra


Release Date: 07/02/2009 
Label:  Sony   Catalog #: 46714   Spars Code: ADD 
Composer:  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,  Giuseppe Verdi,  Jacques Offenbach,  Camille Saint-Saëns,   ... 
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 
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This CD is reissued by ArkivMusic.

Works on This Recording

1.
Le nozze di Figaro, K 492: Overture by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Period: Classical 
Written: 1786; Vienna, Austria 
2.
Aida: Ballet Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1871; Italy 
3.
Les contes d'Hoffmann: Barcarolle by Jacques Offenbach
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1881; Paris, France 
4.
Samson et Dalila, Op. 47: Bacchanale by Camille Saint-Saëns
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1877; France 
5.
Bartered Bride, B 143/T 93: Dance of the Comedians by Bedrich Smetana
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1863/1870; Bohemia 
6.
La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours by Amilcare Ponchielli
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1876; Italy 
7.
Hänsel und Gretel: Abends will ich schlafen gehn "Evening Hymn" by Engelbert Humperdinck
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1893; Germany 
8.
Snow Maiden: Suite - Dance of the Tumblers by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1880/1895; Russia 
9.
Carmen: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle "Habańera" by Georges Bizet
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Written: 1873-1874 
10.
Carmen: Votre toast je peu vous le rendre "Toreador Song" by Georges Bizet
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1873-1874; France 
11.
Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances by Alexander Borodin
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Period: Romantic 
Written: Russia 
12.
Lohengrin: Act 3 Prelude by Richard Wagner
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1847; Germany 
13.
Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod [Instrumental] by Richard Wagner
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1859; Germany 
14.
Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
Conductor:  Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:  New York Philharmonic
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1856; Germany 

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