Arias and Barcarolles

Arias and Barcarolles
Deutsche Grammophon CD, 439 926-2
Studio album by
Michael Tilson Thomas
Released1996
StudioHenry Wood Hall, London
GenreContemporary classical
Length78:21
LanguageEnglish and Yiddish
LabelDeutsche Grammophon
ProducerChristian 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.