More of the music of Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
More Soundtrack Albums
- You’ll find INCREDIBLE Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) grades or close to them on both sides of this original Columbia 6-Eye Stereo pressing
- Spacious, rich and smooth – only vintage analog seems capable of reproducing all three of these qualities without sacrificing resolution, staging, imaging or presence
- Tonality is the hardest thing to get right on this album, and here it is right on the money, because if it were not, it would not have won the shootout
- For those of you who like to do your own shootouts, good luck, you will need a lot of originals to find one that sounds as good as this one does
- The biggest selling album of the ’60s – 54 weeks at Number One (!)
- Marks and problems in the vinyl are sometimes the nature of the beast with these Classic Rock records – there simply is no way around them if the superior sound of vintage analog is important to you
- 5 stars: “The soundtrack of the West Side Story film is deservedly one of the most popular soundtrack recordings of all time, and one of the relatively few to have attained long-term popularity beyond a specialized soundtrack/theatrical musical audience.”
This album is at least five times more common in mono than it is in stereo, and finding enough clean early stereo pressings takes us years nowadays.