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.

Track List:
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