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• Wonderful Town: No 1 Overture
• Wonderful Town: Act I: No 2 Christopher Street
• Wonderful Town: Act I: No 3 Ohio
• Wonderful Town: Act I: No 4 Conquering New York
• Wonderful Town: Act I: No 5 One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose a Man
• Wonderful Town: Act I: No 6 What a Waste
• Wonderful Town: Act I: No 8 A Little Bit in Love
• Wonderful Town: Act I: No 9 Pass the Football
• Wonderful Town: Act I: No 10 Conversation Piece
• Wonderful Town: Act I: No 11 A Quiet Girl
• Wonderful Town: Act I: No 12 Conga!
• Wonderful Town: No 13 Entr-acte
• Wonderful Town: Act II: No 14 My Darlin Eileen
• Wonderful Town: Act II: No 15 Swing!
• Wonderful Town: Act II: No 16 Quiet Incidental
• Wonderful Town: Act II: No 16a Ohio Reprise
• Wonderful Town: Act II: No 17 It-s Love
• Wonderful Town: Act II: No 18 Ballet at the Village Vortex
• Wonderful Town: Act II: No 19 Wrong Note Rag
• Wonderful Town: Act II: No 19a Finale. It-s Love Reprise
• Wonderful Town: Act I: No 12 Conga! (Audience participation version

Overture
Christopher Street
Ohio
Conquering New York
One Hundred Easy Ways
What a Waste
A Little Bit in Love
Pass the Football
Conversation Piece
A Quiet Girl
Quiet Ruth
Conga
Entr'acte
My Darlin' Eileen
Swing
Ohio (Reprise)
It's Love
Ballet at the Village Vortex
Wrong Note Rag
It's Love (Reprise)/Finale

Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra pay homage to Leonard Bernstein with a recording of Wonderful Town that captures the energy and excitement of sold-out performances from December 2017. Featuring an all-star cast led by Danielle de Niese and Alysha Umphress, this release coincides with worldwide #BernsteinAt100 celebrations marking the centenary of the Orchestra’s former President.

Bernstein’s five-time Tony award-winning musical follows sisters Ruth and Eileen on their quest to make it big, pursuing careers in writing and acting from their cramped basement apartment in New York’s bohemian Greenwich Village. Fresh from rural Ohio, the sisters end up getting more than they bargained for, realising that life in the Big Apple is not as glamorous as it may seem.

A bright and cheery love letter to the city that never sleeps and the colourful characters inhabiting it, Wonderful Town draws on Fields and Chodorov’s 1940 play My Sister Eileen, which itself is based on a series of autobiographical short stories by the ‘real-life’ Ruth McKenney.

Bernstein’s infectious score includes classic numbers such as ‘Ohio’, ‘One Hundred Easy Ways’, and ‘A Little Bit in Love’, as well as a riotous conga that had delighted audiences dancing in the aisles of the Barbican hall.

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Recorded live in DSD 128FS at the Barbican Hall, London, December 2017