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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6      General Discussion: Gershwin's RHAPSODY IN BLUE Recommendations     1 2 3    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 2:53 PM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) I've been wanting to get a few great versions of this work, anything available (or not) that anyone could recommend?    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 3:15 PM     By:   Bill Finn   (Member) Lot's of great recordings out there. The one I have is with the Pittsburg Smphony (on the Philips label) with Previn both conducting and handling the keyboard dities. Don't know if is still in-print however.    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 3:46 PM     By:   SchiffyM   (Member) I love the Leonard Bernstein-conducted (and pianoed) version with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Do know, though, that this is the reorchestrated version (Ferde Grofe did the new orchestrations) that was, until recently at least, the most performed version. Gershwin's original is out in lots of good recordings, too.    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 3:51 PM     By:   bedhead   (Member) I don't think you could do better than Leonard Bernstein's version with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra. For archival kicks, you can hear George himself play a short version(8:46) on the disc: Music For Moderns, w/Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra recorded in 1927 on the Naxos (bargain, Baby!) label.    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 4:00 PM     By:   TerraEpon   (Member) Don't listen to any of the above. Both of Bernstein's, and Previn's, are cut, therefor they are worthless. Either of Michal-Tilson Thomas's are great, as is Earl Wild with Boston Pops (the new SACD supposedly has wonderful sound, I didn't care for the 1997 issue's sound but the performance is top notch). The former is the original version for 'jazz band', and the later the full orchestra version. I also own the Complete Orchestal Gershwin with Cinci Pops/Kunzel, which I reccomend, which has some extra bars...and I also own NYPO/Masur with Sizel Fay(?) playing, which is a great digital version of the full orchestra one. -Joshua    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 4:22 PM     By:   Ray Faiola   (Member) Okay, if you're not nuts about digital recording quality, then here are some of the best RHAPSODY recordings: 1. Nathaniel Shilkret & RCA Victor Orchestra (Gershwin at Piano) 2. Paul Whiteman recording on Grand Award for his Anniversary Album. This is Whiteman's (Grofe's) original jazz band arrangement and it is a superb performance. I believe Roy Bargy (Durante's musical director) is the pianist. 3. Ray Heindorf & Earl Wild(?) on WB stereo. 4. William Steinberg & Pittsburgh Symphony with Jesus Maria Sanroma (Gershwin protoge) on piano. Everest Records. And, of course, there is the performance by Paul Whiteman's band with Oscar Levant in the Warners biopic RHAPSODY IN BLUE.    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 4:24 PM     By:   Hector   (Member) I don't think you could do better than Leonard Bernstein's version with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra. For archival kicks, you can hear George himself play a short version(8:46) on the disc: Music For Moderns, w/Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra recorded in 1927 on the Naxos (bargain, Baby!) label. Don't you mean the New York Philharmonic in Columbia records(now Sony)?    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 4:41 PM     By:   Neil S. Bulk   (Member) the new SACD supposedly has wonderful sound, I didn't care for the 1997 issue's sound but the performance is top notch The SA-CD of the Fiedler performance sounds wonderful. This is also a great performance. The Kunzel is also on SA-CD (paired with the 1812 Overture of all things) and is also a very fine performance. Neil    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 5:19 PM     By:   Ray Faiola   (Member) Dare I ask how lonnngggg the Bernstein recording lasts?    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 5:55 PM     By:   Hector   (Member) Bernstein's version is 16 minutes long. And BTW, my mistake, it is indeed called the "Columbia" Symphony Orchestra, not the New York Philharmonic as I previously posted. http://sonyclassical.com/music/89033/    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 7:58 PM     By:   TerraEpon   (Member) Bernstein's version is 16 minutes long. ...and cut. -Joshua    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 8:02 PM     By:   crimedog   (Member) I own the version on the soundtrack to MANHATTAN.    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 8:04 PM     By:   Hector   (Member) I own the one with John Williams and the Boston Pops Orchestra. Misha Dichter, piano.    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 8:58 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) I think I have nearly every version mentioned here and more and am partial to a Levant/Philadelphia Orch recording as well as the Bernstein. Anyone else aware that the watch Levant wore at the piano near the film's end was a gift from George? Poor Oscar was really crushed by George's sudden exit and his dedication to his departed friend's music was legendary. Oh: the Tilson-Thomas/LA Philharmonic version is also a fave. Love the way he had the orchestra exaggerate a chord bend in the slow section. Really bluesy thing to do. And also yes, the Manhattan one is also a must what with the NY Phil and Mehta and the reverential Woody connection. And a recording with Gershwin himself at the piano is mandatory, that's a given. Even if it is truncated. Never heard the twin piano version by the French sisters. Anyone? PS 1. Nathaniel Shilkret & RCA Victor Orchestra (Gershwin at Piano) Actually, Shilkret conducted the accompanying An American in Paris to the Whiteman conducted Rhapsody with George at the piano (am looking at the LP liner notes).    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 9:09 PM     By:   Hector   (Member) The other day on the radio they had a version with Tilson-Thomas, and they said "with Gershwin at the piano". How come?    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 9:23 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Perhaps they incorporated the computer generated version from George's piano rolls?    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 11:19 PM     By:   Sigerson Holmes   (Member) How 'bout Bruce Broughton conducting the "Fantasia 2000" soundtrack recording? Is that the full version?    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 11:21 PM     By:   Sigerson Holmes   (Member) . . . And which CD has the "novelty" recording which features a modern orchestra accompanying Gershwin himself via a vintage piano roll performance?    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 11:44 PM     By:   TerraEpon   (Member) How 'bout Bruce Broughton conducting the "Fantasia 2000" soundtrack recording? Is that the full version? IIRC (don't quote me), that was is messed up even more than the normal 'cut' version. Fit the film nicely though, and not the aural WTF that the Pomp and Circustance medly was. -Joshua    Posted:   Mar 22, 2005 - 11:45 PM     By:   Howard L   (Member) Okay, let's add the astonishing "GERSHWIN plays GERSHWIN: The Piano Rolls" onto the must-hear list. Especially if you like turning the volume all the way up and imagining he's playing right there in the room.     General Discussion: Gershwin's RHAPSODY IN BLUE Recommendations    < 1 2 3  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6

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