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1. September in the Rain
   Music: Harry Warren - Lyrics: Al Dubin
   
   Introduced in the film ‘Melody for Two’ in 1937. Recorded by Frank Sinatra, Dinah Washington, The Beatles and many others.
2. Je suis comme je suis
   Music: Joseph Kosma - Lyrics: Jacques Prevert
   
   You must accept me as I am.
3. Îti mai aduci aminte, doamna
   Music: Ionel Fernic - Lyrics: Cincinat Pavelescu
   
   Do you remember those autumn days and that special evening?
4. Our love is here to stay
   Music: George Gershwin - Lyrics: Ira Gershwin
   
   This was the last song George Gershwin completed and is perhaps most memorable as the main theme of the movie, ‘An American in Paris’ released in 1951.
5. Always true to you in my fashion
   Piano Solo - Otmar Binder Cole Porter
   
   Otmar Binder’s interpretation of the song from ‘Kiss me Kate’ the long-running show based on Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of the Shrew’.
6. Fa-ne Doamne, Iar Copii…
   Music: Nastase Ionescu - Lyrics: Const. D. Ticu Stefanescu
   
   When we were children you often kissed me. Oh Lord, make us children again!
7. Laziest Gal in Town
   Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter
   
   Another of Cole Porter’s enduring songs. There’s only one thing holding back the ‘laziest girl in town’ from making progress with her boyfriend, she’s so laid back, she just can’t be bothered!
8. Je cherche un homme
   Music: Michael Emer - Lyrics: Eartha Kitt Yves Bruyeres
   
   I’m looking for a man – not rich or handsome but real!
9. La Umbra Nucului Batrîn
   Music: Ionel Fernic - Lyrics: Alex Dinescu
   
   In the shade of the old nut tree, we loved each other long ago.
10. Barbara-Song
    Music: Kurt Weill - Lyrics: Berthold Brecht
    
    This song is the result of cooperation by a world-famous team – the dramatist Brecht and the composer Kurt Weill, and was written for the show ‘The Three Penny Opera’.
11. St Louis Blues
    Piano Solo - Otmar Binder - Music: William C Hardy
    
    This is a fundamental part of the jazz musician’s repertoire and was one of the first blues songs to succeed as a pop song.
12. One touch of Venus
    Music: Kurt Weill - Lyrics: Ogden Nash
    
    From The musical of the same name first performed in 1943.
13. Sa-mi Cînti, Cobzar
    Music & Lyrics: Unknown
    
    Play for me gipsy, I will give you all I possess Life has no meaning any more. Famous Rumanian drinking song.
14. I never do anything twice
    Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
    
    Stephen Sondheim wrote this song originally called ‘The Madam’s Song’ for the movie ‘The Seven-Per-Cent Solution’ which was a pastiche of a Sherlock Holmes adventure.
15. Frumoasa mea cu ochii verzi
    Music: Unknown - Lyrics: Cincinat Pavelescu
    
    My love with green eyes like two sparkling emeralds You have left me to go far away to regain your happiness.
16. La Bohème
    Music: Charles Aznavour - Lyrics: Jacques Plante
    
    I tell you about a time when there was hunger and deprivation but we were young and full of optimism. Sometimes we exchanged a painting for a hot meal but other times we just went without.
17. Iubito, de departe-ti scriu
    Music & Lyrics: Misu Cassvan
    
    My love I write to you from afar and I am sorry to have left you without a word of goodbye.
18. How long blues
    Piano solo – Otmar Binder - Leroy Carr
    
    This is a blues standard and the song tells the story of a life gone wrong.
19. There’s no way to go but up
    Music: Kurt Weill - Lyrics: Maxwell Anderson
    
    One of Kurt Weill’s more upbeat songs. It is taken from his Broadway musical ‘Knickerbocker Holiday’ which was first Performed in 1938.
20. Ev’ry time we say goodbye
    Music & Lyrics: Cole Porter
    
    Another jazz standard from the pen of Cole Porter and immortalised by Ella Fitzgerald.
21. Sunday Dream
    Piano Solo – Otmar Binder - Otmar Binder
    
    Melodious and wistful piano music played and written by Otmar Binder.