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Bernstein - Wonderful Town [2002]
starring: Simon Rattle, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Hampson, Audra McDonald, Wayne Marshall

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Exempt
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0880242522993
Format: Anamorphic, Classical, PAL
Label: Select Music & Video Distribution
Manufacturer: Select Music & Video Distribution
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Select Music & Video Distribution
Release Date: December 04, 2006
Running Time: 76 minutes
Studio: Select Music & Video Distribution
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Sales Rank: 60888

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Excellent concert presentation of Wonderful Town
This concert version of the Betty Comden/Adolph Green/Leonard Bernstein 1953 Broadway hit demonstrates just how much skilled, experienced professionals can accomplish. The three turned out the score in four weeks. The production was a vehicle for Rosalind Russell's star return to Broadway after years in Hollywood...and Russell couldn't sing. They fashioned a series of raucous, tender, funny, romantic songs, with Russell's efforts tailored to her comedy skills and limited vocal ability. The show was a smash, and so is this concert performance conducted by Simon Rattle.

Kim Criswell sings Ruth Sherwood and Audra McDonald sings her younger sister, Eileen. The book is based on Ruth McKenney's best seller My Sister Eileen. Ruth wants ... Read More:

Rating:

- Wonderful Town - Simon Rattle Berlin Philharmonic Orch
Wow - this is a spectacular muscial rendering. The orchestra, under Simon Rattle, is fabulous. What can we say about Kim Criswell, Audra McDonald, and Brent Barrett - such versatility, beautifully in tune, wonderful attention to the words and so characterful.

Thomas Hampson - what a God given voice, along with superb looks and a great physique and, again, a versatile singer - my wife has fallen in love with him!

All the other artists who took part, including the chorus, were superb.

My only complaint is that it should have gone on for another hour (or maybe two)!!

Rating:

- It's Hard to Imagine a More Thrilling Performance
'Wonderful Town' is not Leonard Bernstein's best score, but you wouldn't know it from this exuberant performance in the unlikeliest of places: New Year's Eve 2002 at the Philharmonie, the home of the Berlin Philharmonic. Led by their new chief conductor, Sir Simon Rattle, and featuring an all-star cast of American singers, this semi-staged BPO concert version of the Bernstein's 1953 Broadway hit is amazingly right in all its particulars. From the jazzy overture to the encore of 'Conga!' in which Rattle entreats the gala audience (in German) to get up and form a conga line, the joy and esprit of this concert has to be seen and heard to be believed. The singers are as good as they get. Kim Criswell, one of the best Broadway singers of recent times, ... Read More:

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