Arias and Barcarolles | |
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Studio album by Michael Tilson Thomas | |
Released | 1996 |
Studio | Henry Wood Hall, London |
Genre | Contemporary classical |
Length | 78:21 |
Language | English and Yiddish |
Label | Deutsche Grammophon |
Producer | Christian Gansch |
Arias and Barcarolles is a 78-minute contemporary classical studio album of music by Leonard Bernstein, performed by Thomas Hampson, Frederica von Stade, Simon Carrington, Neil Percy and the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. In addition to the song cycle which gives it its name, the album includes the Suite from Bernstein's opera A Quiet Place and the Symphonic Dances from his musical West Side Story. It was released in 1996.