Release Date: 18 September 2015
Label: Vinyl Passion
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8712177064007
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: An American In Paris/Rhapsody In Blue
Description
Leonard Bernstein made a number of recordings of these works and among the many excellent recordings that he made as a conductor or as a soloist, the version of Rhapsody in Blue with the Columbia Orchestra from 1959, is especially of note.
Bernstein takes on a double function as conductor and soloist and maneuvres his way safely and surely through the highly diversified score to create a well-rounded picture filled with hefty orchestral dynamics and finely chiseled solo playing.
Coupled with another freely composed work – the autobiographical sketch entitled An American In Paris, the superb New York musicians from the New York Philharmonic paint the impressions of a visitor to the hectic French capital city – that too is the sound of America.
Original Recordings Remastered from 1958 and 1959.
Tracklisting
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Nina Simone
Various Artists
Various Artists
The Shadows
Serge Gainsbourg
Jerry Lee Lewis
Brenda Lee
The Gents
Various
Kevin Cole; National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic; David Alan Miller
Various
Peter Dickinson
Jacobson/Brown
Adler/Boehm/So Berlin
