Lara Downes – For Lenny (2018) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lara Downes – For Lenny (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:32 minutes | 515 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | Booklet, Front Cover | © Sony Worldwide

Pianist Lara Downes celebrates the launch of her Sony Classical debut album FOR LENNY, a Leonard Bernstein centennial tribute that spans the landscape of American music from the past, present, and future. Downes, joined on stage by singer Rhiannon Giddens, presents a portrait of Bernstein the man, full of boundless curiosity and a fervent belief in the power of music to change our world for the better.

Lara Downes’ new album For Lenny celebrates the 100th birthday of Leonard Bernstein with a special friends-and-family tribute to the man behind the music. The recording features Bernstein’s aptly-named Anniversaries for Piano, new arrangements of his songs, and world premieres of works dedicated to Bernstein by leading American composers including Stephen Sondheim, John Corigliano, and Stephen Schwartz. The album is introduced by an essay from acclaimed New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik. Describing FOR LENNY, Lara says: “Leonard Bernstein reminds me of what a musician can be. Of what music can do in this world – how it can reach and teach and make things happen. Just imagine what American music was before Lenny came along, everything he changed. I’m only here at all, I think, because of the rules he broke and the doors he knocked down. Imagine the thousands of other musicians who feel the same way”.

Tracklist:
01 – Something’s Coming [with. Kevin Olusola]
02 – Anniversary for Lenny
03 – Anniversaire for Lenny
04 – Romance for Lenny
05 – Iconoclasm (for Lenny)
06 – Big Stuff
07 – 4 Anniversaries: No. 2. For Johnny Mehegan
08 – 7 Anniversaries: No. 1. For Aaron Copland
09 – No. 3. For Stephen Sondheim
10 – I Remember (arr. for piano)
11 – West Side Story, Act I: Cool (arr. for clarinet and piano) [with Javier Morales-Martinez]
12 – Story of My Life (arr. J. Distler for piano)
13 – Arias and Barcarolles: No. 5. Greeting (arr. L. Downes for piano)
14 – Innocent Psalm (for the Bernstein baby)
15 – No. 6. For My Daughter, Nina
16 – No. 11. For Felicia, on our 28th Birthday (and her 52nd)
17 – So Pretty [with Rhiannon Giddens]
18 – Anniversary in Memoriam (for Lenny)
19 – No. 2. For Lucas Foss
20 – For Lenny (Variation on New York, New York)
21 – What Shall We Remember? (arr. for piano)
22 – Mass: Hymn and Psalm, “A Simple Song” [with Thomas Hampson]
23 – Exuberance (for Lenny)
24 – No. 4. For Craig Urquhart
25 – Remembering Lenny
26 – Goodbye Chorale (for Lenny)
27 – Youth, Day, Old Age and Night (arr. L. Downes for piano)
28 – On the Town, Act II: Some Other Time (arr. J. Distler for piano)

Produced by Adam Abeshouse.

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