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Gershwin: Fascinating Rhythm / Menuhin, Grappelli

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2005-03-01

Works: George Gershwin: Lady, be Good; Strike up the Band; Porgy and Bess; Nice Work If You Can Get It, song (from A Damsel in Distress, film); Girl Crazy; Show Girl; A Foggy Day (in London Town), song (fro...
Performers: Clare, Alan [piano]; Crombie, Tony; Ganley, Allan; Grappelli, Stephane; Harris, Max; Holloway, Laurie; Isaacs, Ike; Karan, Chris; Menuhin, Yehudi; Price, Derek; Snell, David [Light Clas]; Swinfield, ...
Conductors: Riddle, Nelson
Ensemble: ; Alan Clare Trio

Americana - Adams, Bernstein, Ellington, et al / Rattle

1 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2004-03-09

Works: Leonard Bernstein: Story of my life; Prelude, Fugue and Riffs; George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Porgy and Bess; Felix Bernard: The Dardanella Blues, song; Walter Donaldson: Makin' Whoopee; Lindsay ...
Performers: Allen, Geri; Blackwell, Harolyn [Soprano Vocals]; Carter, Regina [Violin]; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; City Of Caterpillar; Collins, Michael [Conductor/Clarinet]; Donohoe, Peter; Evans, Da...
Conductors: Rattle, Simon, Sir
Ensemble: ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; London Sinfonietta

This new compilation represents over 75 minutes of the very best of Simon Rattle's recordings of American music presented in his unique, exciting and dynamic...continue...
Personnel: Regina Carter (violin); Michael Collins (clarinet); Bobby Ray Watson (alto saxophone); Joe Lovano, Joshua Redman (tenor saxophone); Clark Terry (trumpet); Geri Allen, Peter Donohoe (piano...continue...

Nielsen: Concertos, Orchestral Works / Blomstedt, et al

2 CD / EMI Classics Import / 1997-10-14

Works: Carl Nielsen: Symphonic Rhapsody in F major, FS 7; Helios Overture, FS 32/Op. 17; Saga-dream, FS 46/Op. 39; Concerto for Violin Op. 33 (FS 61); Pan and Syrinx, Op. 49; Concerto for Flute, FS 119; An ...
Performers: Jarlkov, Ib; Lemmser, Frantz; Stevensson, Kjell-Inge; Tellefsen, Arve
Conductors: Blomstedt, Herbert
Ensemble: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

"This set, from Blomstedt's 1975 cycle of the Nielsen symphonies, is definitely one to recommend...If it's hard for you to choose between the BIS and...continue...