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"This documentary is about the Leonard Bernstein-conducted recording of the score in the 80s, with Kiri Te Kanawa and José Carreras. That soundtrack was a staple at home when I was growing up – we had this glossy, massive four-cassette tape box of it. Bernstein is such an interesting person: temperamental, feisty, impatient, funny, smoking cigarettes in his red polo neck. And to see him conduct his music – this incredible, ambitious, interesting, crazy, heartbreaking music, which is never schmaltzy, but crunchy and angsty, and then with these moments of release – is really amazing."

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Kudos

Recitar...Vesti La Giubba - Jose Carreras (with Jose Carreras) by Best Opera Classics 100

Cavalleria Rusticana (1987 Digital Remaster): No, No, Turiddu, Rimani (Santuzza / Turiddu) Montserrat Caballé/José Carreras/Philharmonia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti 5:37 by Carreras / Leoncavallo / Mascagni / Muti / Scotto

Preludio Orchestra ... O Lola Ch'hai Di Latti La Cammisa Turiddu From Cavalleria Rusticana 1987 Digital Remaster José Carreras/Philharmonia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti 8:11 by Carreras / Leoncavallo / Mascagni / Muti / Scotto

Cavalleria Rusticana (1987 Digital Remaster): Mamma, Quel Vino È Generoso (Turiddu / Mamma Lucia / Santuzza / Una Donna) José Carreras/Astrid Varnay/Philharmonia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti 5:41 by Carreras / Leoncavallo / Mascagni / Muti / Scotto

Cavalleria Rusticana (1987 Digital Remaster): Viva Il Vino Spumeggiante (Turiddu / Coro / Lola) José Carreras/Julia Hamari/Ambrosian Opera Chorus/Philharmonia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti 2:51 by Carreras / Leoncavallo / Mascagni / Muti / Scotto

Pagliacci (1987 Digital Remaster), Atto Primo / Act 1 / Erster Akt / Premier Acte, Scena Seconda / Scene 2 / Zweite Szene / Deuxième Scène: Recitar!...Vesti La Giubba José Carreras/Philharmonia Orchestra/Riccardo Muti 3:57 by Carreras / Leoncavallo / Mascagni / Muti / Scotto

La Carrera (with Mariachi Tapatio De Jose Marmolejo) by Mariachi Tapatio / Mariachi Tapatio De Jose Marmolejo / Jose Marmolejo

Great Performances - Season 36

Anna Meredith recommended The Making of West Side Story (1984) in Movies (curated)

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