01. An American in Paris
02. An Outdoor Overture
03. Songfest No. 1, To the Poem
04. Songfest No. 2, The Pennycandy Store Beyond the El
05. Songfest No. 3, A Julia de Burgos
06. Songfest No. 4, To What You Said
07. Songfest No. 5, I, Too, Sing America-Okay Negroes
08. Songfest No. 6, To My Dear and Loving Husband
09. Songfest No. 7, Storyette H.M.
10. Songfest No. 8, If You Can’t Eat You Got To
11. Songfest No. 9, Music I Heard With You
12. Songfest No. 10, Zizi’s Lament
13. Songfest No. 11, What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
14. Songfest No. 12, Israfel
An American in Paris is one of Gershwin’s most vivacious works, an orchestral ballet saturated in homesickness and the blues. This recording, however, uses the new 2019 critical edition and offers Gershwin’s original orchestration, unheard for 75 years – leaner, more angular and transparent, it also employs the correct use of the iconic taxi horns, for a new sonic experience. The breezy vitality of Copland’s An Outdoor Overture is balanced by Bernstein’s Songfest – written to celebrate the Bicentennial Year in America, setting the verses of 13 of the country’s poets.