CD/DVDs – Week of August 20

Nadine Sierra & Leonard Bernstein Highlight The Week

By Francisco Salazar

Two releases this week will celebrate Leonard Bernstein. The first is a compilation of opera overtures conducted by the legendary conductor/composer and the other will showcase the debut album of soprano Nadine Sierra, who celebrates the composer’s centennial in her first recorded set.

Overture

Sony Classical is set to release a compilation of opera overtures conducted by Leonard Bernstein. The CD will include opening numbers from “Mignon,” “Le Nozze di Figaro,” “The Bartered Bride,” Die Fledermaus” and “Donna Diana,” among others. Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic in this new remastering.

There’s A Place for Us

Deutsche Grammophon will release American soprano Nadine Sierra’s debut album. “There’s A Place For Us” will feature music by Bernstein, Stravinsky, and Golijov, as well as songs from Villa-Lobos in homage to Sierra’s Portuguese roots. Robert Spano conducts the Royal Philharmonic in a CD that Sierra said in a recent interview, “she wanted an album that would have a message about something that she was very passionate about; something that she thought people today can relate to.”

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