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Gershwin & Kern / The Alexander String Quartet, Joan Enric Lluna, clarinet

1 CD / Foghorn Classics / 2012-08-14

Works: Jascha Heifetz: Porgy & Bess Selections for Clarinet and Strings; Jerome Kern: Very Warm for May; Swing Time; Bill, song (from "Show Boat"); Music in the Air; Roberta; Once in a Blue Moon, song (from...
Performers: Lluna, Joan Enric
Conductors:
Ensemble: The Alexander String Quartet

This recording presents some very familiar and much-loved music in an unexpected format. Ten of Jerome Kern and George Gershwin's greatest songs - songs almost...continue...
Recording information: St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, (05/24/2011-05/26/2011); St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Belvedere, California, (07/15/2011)....continue...

A Gershwin Collection from Decca

7 CD / Decca / 2011-04-19

Works: George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Lullaby, for string quartet; An American in Paris; Cuban Overture; Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra no 2 "Rhapsody in Rivets"; Girl Crazy; Oh, Kay!; Funny Face; Let...
Performers: Austin, Patti; Austin, Patty; Boatwright, McHenry; Brown, William; Buck, John; Clemmons, Frarncois; Conrad, Barbara [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Deane, Christopher; Floyd, Alpha; Hagan, Samuel; Hendricks, ...
Conductors: Chailly, Riccardo; Fiedler, Arthur; Ashkenazy, Vladimir; Herrmann, Bernard; Dorati, Antal; Mauceri, John; Maazel, Lorin
Ensemble: ; London Festival Ensemble

An unparalleled collection of many of Gershwin's most popular pieces from Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris to a collection of songs and...continue...

Serafin String Quartet / Barber, Dvorák et al

1 CD / Centaur / 2010-09-06

Works: William Grant Still: Danzas de Panama, for string quintet; Antonin Dvorák: Quartet for Strings no 12 in F major, Op. 96/B 179 "American"; Samuel Barber: Quartet for Strings in B major, Op. 11; G...

Hailed by the New York Concert Review for its "excellent music making...uncommonly fine interpretation," the Serafin String Quartet debuted to a sell-out crowd at New...continue...
Recording information: Gore Recital Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, Dela (06/2009/09/2009)....continue...

The Complete Gershwin- Works for Piano & Orchestra / Siegel

2 CD / Vox Classical / 2007-10-09

Works: George Gershwin: Concerto for Piano in F major; Lullaby, for string quartet; Cuban Overture; Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra no 2 "Rhapsody in Rivets"; Walking the Dog, promenade for piano or orches...
Performers: Korman, John; Siegel, Jeffrey; Slaughter, Susan; Tung, Yuan
Conductors: Slatkin, Leonard
Ensemble: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

American Adagios

1 CD / Telarc / 2006-04-25

Works: Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings; Concerto for Violin Op. 14; Agnus Dei; John Corigliano: Voyage, for flute & string orchestra; Thomas Canning: Fantasy on a Hymn Tune by Justin Morgan for double str...
Performers: Edmund-Davies, Paul; Lockhart, Arietha; McDuffie, Robert; Wincenc, Carol
Conductors: Slatkin, Leonard; Werthen, Rudolf; López-Cobos, Jesús; Eschenbach, Christoph; Levi, Yoel; Kunzel, Erich; Shaw, Robert
Ensemble: ; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Cincinnati Pops Orchestra; Houston Symphony Orchestra; I Fiamminghi; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

'American Adagios' is a unique concept album that explores the serene and peaceful side of American classical music....continue...

Lullabyes and Goodbyes / Cantabile Vocal Quartet, Martineau

1 CD / Signum UK / 2006-02-01

Works: Billy Joel: Lullabye "Goodnight, my angel"; Engelbert Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel, opera; Jacques Offenbach: Gaîté Parisienne; Richard M. Sherman / Robert B. Sherman: Chitty Chit...
Performers: eau, Martin

Fun Time with String Quartet

1 CD / Dynamic / 2006-01-01

Works: Werner Thomas-Mifune: Comic string quartet based on Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th Symphony; Chromatic Syncopations; Charlie Chaplin: Limelight, film score; Dmitry Shostakovich: Age of Gold, Op. 22; Serg...
Performers: Quartetto d'Archi di Venezia

Recording information: Dynamic's in Genoa, Italy.

REVIEWS:

Fanfare (5-6/98, p.254) - "...dependable playing, fine engineering, and a bourgeois choice of repertoire. Although mildly amus...continue...

Drive Time - Blue Ridge Parkway

1 CD / Sony Classical / 2005-06-28

Works: Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring, ballet for 13 instruments; Our Town, film score; Edward MacDowell: Woodland Sketches (10) for piano, Op. 51; George Gershwin: Lullaby, for string quartet; Mark O'Co...
Performers: Chalifoux, Alice; Sharp, Maurice; Slaughter, Susan
Conductors: Kapp, Richard; Ormandy, Eugene; Copland, Aaron; Yoo, Scott; Slatkin, Leonard; Williams, John; Fiedler, Arthur; Lane, Louis

The Fascinating George Gershwin

1 Super Audio CD / PentaTone Classics / 2005-06-01

Works: George Gershwin: An American in Paris; Preludes (3) for piano; Lady, be Good; Girl Crazy; Oh, Kay!; Lullaby, for string quartet; Rhapsody in Blue; Goldwyn Follies; Bob Zimmerman: Triple Tribute (afte...
Performers: Angelov, Ludmil; Eschkenazy, Vesko; Horsch, Gregor; Mijnders, Marijn; Pieterson, George; Rieken, Herman; Rubingh, Henk

"Gershwin's works can take almost anything arrangers throw at them, so these violin-and-piano transcriptions do not fail to please. The performers sound like they are...continue...

Vol. 2-tranquillity

1 CD / ABC Classics (Premiere) Import / 2005-04-05

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Andante cantabile for Cello and Strings, Op. 11; Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248; Jules Massenet: La Vierge; Hector Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ, Op. 25;...
Performers: Ma, Jun Yi
Conductors: Stanhope, David

The Very Best of Gershwin

2 CD / Universal (Poland) Import / 2003-07-28

Works: George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess; Oh, Kay!; Rhapsody in Blue; Shall We Dance; They All Laughed, song (from Shall We Dance?, film); But Not for Me, song (from Girl Crazy, musical); In the Mandarin's Or...

For Your Life - For Book Lovers

1 CD / Decca / 2003-07-01

Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Songs (14), Op. 34; Claude Debussy: Poèmes (7) de Banville; George Frederick Handel: Water Music Suite no 2 in D major, HWV 349; Antonin Dvorák: Serenade for Strings; ...
Performers: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, The; BBC Concert Orchestra; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Cleveland Orchestra; Cooper, Joseph; Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra; English Chamber Orchestra; ...
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Judd, James; Wordsworth, Barry; Litton, Andrew; Barenboim, Daniel; Dorati, Antal; Chailly, Riccardo; Ottley, Jerold D.; Hanson, Howard; Mehta, Zubin
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; BBC Concert Orchestra; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Cleveland Orchestra; Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra; English Chamber Orchestra; Minneapolis Symphon...

This selection features both ADD and DDD recordings.

Personnel: Julian Lloyd Webber (cello); Joseph Cooper (piano)....continue...

Menus and Music - Museum Cafés & Arts - Ravel, Haydn, Mozart, Debussy, Beethoven, etc / Rossetti String Quartet

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2003-06-01

Works: Maurice Ravel: Quartet for Strings in F major; Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet for Strings in F minor, Op. 20 no 5/H 3 no 35; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quartet for Strings no 21 in D major, K 575; Claude ...

The Best of Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue, I Got Rhythm, etc

1 CD / Telarc / 2001-01-23

Works: George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; An American in Paris; Porgy and Bess; Cuban Overture; Variations on "I got rhythm" for Piano and Orchestra; Lullaby, for string quartet; Rialto Ripples, rag for pia...
Performers: Blackwell, Harolyn [Soprano Vocals]; O'Conor, John; Tritt, William
Conductors: Kunzel, Erich
Ensemble: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

"There's no denying that when it comes to playing Gershwin, Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops can stand with the best of them. Theirs may...continue...

Gershwin: Complete Orchestral Collection / Erich Kunzel

2 CD / Telarc / 1998-05-26

Works: George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra no 2 "Rhapsody in Rivets"; Concerto for Piano in F major; Variations on "I got rhythm" for Piano and Orchestra; Rialto Ripples, rag...
Performers: Berens, Timothy; Goodyear, Stewart; Tritt, William
Conductors: Kunzel, Erich
Ensemble: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra

Gershwin: Dayful of Song / Litton, Dallas Symphony Orchestra

1 CD / Delos / 1997-01-01

Works: George Gershwin: Dayful of Song, suite for piano & orchestra (arr. by S. Ramin); Cuban Overture; Walking the Dog, promenade for piano or orchestra (arrangement from film "Shall We Dance"); Rhapsody i...
Performers: Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Girko, Stephen; Litton, Andrew
Conductors: Litton, Andrew
Ensemble: Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Personnel: Andrew Litton (piano); Christine DeRose (banjo); Susan Dederich-Pejovich (harp); Melvin Baer (violin, piano, celesta); Ronald Hudson, Peggy Zimmers, Daphne Volle, Janet Cherry, Miyo Kono, L...continue...

Gershwin - Greatest Hits

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1994-08-09

Works: George Gershwin: Strike up the Band; Rhapsody in Blue; Preludes (3) for piano; Concerto for Piano in F major; An American in Paris; Porgy and Bess; Lady, be Good; Lullaby, for string quartet; Walking...
Performers: Bernstein, Leonard; Kahane, Jeffrey; Kostelanetz, Andre; Labeque, Katia; Labeque, Marielle [Piano]; Ma, Yo-Yo; Previn, Andre [Conductor/Piano]; Vaughan, Sarah
Conductors: Williams, John; Bernstein, Leonard; Thomas, Michael Tilson; Lane, Louis