Lara Downes – For Lenny: An Intimate Tribute to Leonard Bernstein (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Lara Downes – For Lenny: An Intimate Tribute to Leonard Bernstein (2018)
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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:
1-1. Kevin Olusola – , Act I: Something’s Coming (02:20)
1-2. Lara Downes – Anniversary for Lenny (01:41)
1-3. Lara Downes – Anniversaire for Lenny (01:47)
1-4. Lara Downes – Romance for Lenny (02:08)
1-5. Lara Downes – Iconoclasm (for Lenny) (03:28)
1-6. Lara Downes – Big Stuff (03:02)
1-7. Lara Downes – 4 Anniversaries: No. 2. For Johnny Mehegan (00:45)
1-8. Lara Downes – 7 Anniversaries: No. 1. For Aaron Copland (01:17)
1-9. Lara Downes – No. 3. For Stephen Sondheim (01:27)
1-10. Lara Downes – I Remember (arr. for piano) (02:08)
1-11. Javier Morales-Martinez – West Side Story, Act I: Cool (arr. for clarinet and piano) (01:06)
1-12. Lara Downes – Story of My Life (arr. J. Distler for piano) (02:34)
1-13. Lara Downes – Arias and Barcarolles: No. 5. Greeting (arr. L. Downes for piano) (02:15)
1-14. Lara Downes – Innocent Psalm (for the Bernstein baby) (01:11)
1-15. Lara Downes – No. 6. For My Daughter, Nina (01:58)
1-16. Lara Downes – No. 11. For Felicia, on our 28th Birthday (and her 52nd) (01:26)
1-17. Rhiannon Giddens – So Pretty (02:26)
1-18. Lara Downes – Anniversary in Memoriam (for Lenny) (03:33)
1-19. Lara Downes – No. 2. For Lucas Foss (01:43)
1-20. Lara Downes – For Lenny (Variation on New York, New York) (01:54)
1-21. Lara Downes – What Shall We Remember? (arr. for piano) (04:11)
1-22. Thomas Hampson – Mass: Hymn and Psalm, “A Simple Song” (04:20)
1-23. Lara Downes – Exuberance (for Lenny) (00:57)
1-24. Lara Downes – No. 4. For Craig Urquhart (01:11)
1-25. Lara Downes – Remembering Lenny (04:09)
1-26. Lara Downes – Goodbye Chorale (for Lenny) (02:40)
1-27. Lara Downes – Youth, Day, Old Age and Night (arr. L. Downes for piano) (02:25)
1-28. Lara Downes – On the Town, Act II: Some Other Time (arr. J. Distler for piano) (03:30)

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