George Gershwin - Gershwin Performs Gershwin: Rare Recordings 1931-1935 (1991)

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Artist: George Gershwin
Title: Gershwin Performs Gershwin: Rare Recordings 1931-1935
Year Of Release: 1991
Label: Musicmasters [5062-2-C]
Genre: Jazz, Classical
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log) / WAV (tracks)
Total Time: 69:30
Total Size: 159 mb / 226 mb / 701 mb
WebSite: Album Preview

More interesting (and--predictably--less mechanical) than his piano rolls, Gershwin Performs Gershwin showcases the Gershwin-conducted rehearsal sessions for Second Rhapsody and Porgy and Bess along with two Gershwin radio specials recorded in the early '30s titled Music by Gershwin. These are period pieces, for sure--the sound is shoddy, and the radio spots' commercials are as entrancing as the music that's being played. But, yes, that is Gershwin conducting and playing piano, and this is as close as we'll get to hearing these familiar tunes being played the way he wanted them. --Jason Verlinde

TRACKLIST:

"Music By Gershwin" Radio Program, February 19, 1934
1 Signature 1:31
2 Of Thee I Sing: Overture 3:32
3 The Man I Love 4:43
4 I Got Rhythm 2:46
5 Commercial 0:58
6 Swanee; Sign-off 1:08

"Music By Gershwin" Radio Program, April 30, 1934
7 Signature 1:27
8 Mine 1:05
9 Variations On "I Got Rhythm" 8:33
10 Love Is Sweeping The Country 1:00
11 Commercial 1:27
12 Wintergreen For President; Sign-off 1:07

Rudy Vallée "Fleischmann Hour" Radio Program, November 10, 1932
13 Variations On "Fascinating Rhythm"; Variations On "Liza" 2:27
14 Second Prelude 2:32
15 Interview 1:29
16 I Got Rhythm 1:03
17 "Second Rhapsody" Rehersal Performance, June 26, 1931 14:21

"Porgy And Bess" Rehersal Performance, July 19, 1935
18 Introduction: Summertime [Featuring – Abbie Mitchell] 4:08
19 A Woman Is A Sometime Thing [Featuring – Edward Matthews] 2:30
20 Act I, Scene 1: Finale 1:41
21 My Man's Gone Now [Featuring – Ruby Elzy] 4:15
22 Bess, You Is My Woman Now [Featuring – Ann Brown, Todd Duncan] 5:33

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