Electrifying conductor, brilliant composer, gifted pianist, inspiring teacher: Leonard Bernstein is one of the most famous and influential musicians of all time. Highlights of this album of the Maestro’s legendary recordings for Deutsche Grammophon include his incandescent interpretations of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Mahler, composers for whom he felt a profound affinity.

Tracklist: 

CD 1
1. Leonard Bernstein – Candide: Overture
Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story
2. Symphonic Dances: Finale
3. Maria
4. Somewhere 
Edward Elgar– Enigma Variations Op. 46
5. Theme (Enigma)
6. Var. 9 (Nimrod)
7. Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings
8. George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue
9. Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 5: Adagietto Mahler – Symphony No. 2 ‘Resurrection’
10. Urlicht. Sehr feierlich, aber schlicht— "0 Röschen rot!"
11. Mit Aufschwung, aber nicht eilen - "0 Schmerz! Du Alldurchdringer"

CD 2
1. Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 88: Finale. Allegro con spirito Hob. I:88/4
2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Clarinet Concerto: Adagio K 622/2
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 35 "Haffner": Finale. Presto K 385/4
4. Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral": Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute op. 68/3
5. Robert Schumann – Cello Concerto: Langsam op. 129/2
6. Robert Schumann – Symphony No. 1 "Spring": Scherzo. Molto vivace op. 38/3
7. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique": Adagio — Allegro non troppo op. 74/1
8. Antonín Dvořák – Symphony No. 9 "From the New World": Scherzo. Molto vivace op. 95/3
9. Antonín Dvořák – Slavonic Dance No. 8 op. 46
10. Edward Elgar – Pomp and Circumstance: March op. 39/1
11. Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 ‘Choral’: Allegro energico e ben marcato op. 125/4f