Leonard Bernstein: Westside Story
Prologue 4:24; Maria 3:47; Promenade 0:22; Mambo 2:20; Cha Cha 2:16; Jump 1:48; Balcony Scene 7:24; Cool 4:35; One Hand, One Heart 5:02; I Feel Pretty 2:33; I Have A Love 3:21; Scherzo 0:56; Somewhere 2:53; Officer Kruppke 1:48; America 3:13

Harold Arlen: Over the Rainbow 5:23

Frederick Loewe: Scenes from „My fair Lady“ 8:52

George Gershwin: Selections from „Porgy and Bess“ 9:54

Total time 71:02

Linos Saxophon Quartett
Thorsten Blumberg, Percussion

SACD hybrid

For the present recording, the Linos Saxophone Quartet has put together a kaleidoscope-like program of classic „popular songs“ that allows a many-layered musical glance into the Broadway careers of the greatest and most famous American composers of the past hundred years, presented here in fresh and jazzy arrangements for Saxophone Quartet.

For over twenty years, the Linos Saxophone Quartet has been a permanent feature on the German musical scene. After a brilliant start with first prizes at national and international music competitions, the quartet has made a excellent name for itself through its many years of concert activity at home and abroad. Every appearance is an experience, whether in New York, in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatory, or at one of the major German music festivals.

Thorsten Blumberg studied at the Cologne College of Music. After engagements with the Radio Symphonic Band Leipzig and the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, he has been percussionist and assistant solo timpanist of the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne since 2002.

After Impression (M 56861), the present recording is the second release by the Linos Saxophone Quartet on Musicaphon.