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GERSHWIN, Ira - Composers

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Composer: GERSHWIN, Ira ((1896-1983))

Letter from Home - Brass Quintet and Percussion - Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy

Letter from Home - Brass Quintet and Percussion - Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy
ID: ACDBA090-2
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Collection: Brass Collection
Subcollection: Quintet

TRACKLIST
1. Fanfare La Péri 2:01
2. Stanfare 5:24
3. Esther 3:57
4. Music Hall Suite - Soubrette Song 1:33
5. Music Hall Suite - Trick-cyclists 1:12
6. Music Hall Suite - Soft shoe shuffle 2:33
7. Music Hall Suite - Les Girls 1:27
8. Triosonate in g minor - Largo 2:45
9. Triosonate in g minor - Allegro 2:44
10. Triosonate in g minor - Cantabile 2:49
11. Triosonate in g minor - Allegro 1:24
12. Air 3:37
13. Letter from Home 2:35
14. West Side Story - Prologue 2:24
15. West Side Story - Something’s Comin’ 2:24
16. West Side Story - Maria 2:46
17. West Side Story - Tonight 1:58
18. West Side Story - America 2:22
19. West Side Story - One hand, one heart 1:59
20. West Side Story - I Feel Pretty 1:38
21. West Side Story - Somewhere 2:46
22. Tea for Two 2:03
23. Night and Day 2:36
18.00 eur Buy

Judy Garland - The London Studio Recordings 1957-1964

Judy Garland - The London Studio Recordings 1957-1964
ID: FHR12
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

From 1955 through 1964, Judy Garland was one of the most celebrated, acclaimed, and best-selling album artists on the EMI/Capitol roster. On several occasions during those years, she had the opportunity of recording at Abbey Road Studios. This 2CD set assembles her work done there between October 1957 and August 1964. Not only are 12 previously unreleased alternate takes included but, more significantly, a completely unknown/undocumented recording of a song called Please Say 'Ah'! The Mort Lindsey orchestration of this song is complicated and marvellous, the band on top form; Garland and her vocal partner, Saul Chaplin, are having a wonderful time and this great piece of fun, liberally sprinkled with Garland's infectious laugh, demands to be heard! This historic issue is the very first composite compact disc celebration of its kind and a guaranteed collector's item for anyone who appreciates the Great Popular Songbook - and "the World's greatest entertainer."
CD 1
Track 1: Orchestra conducted by Geoff Love Abbey Road Studios, 2-9 August 1960
Tracks 2-21: Orchestra and chorus conducted by Norrie Paramor

CD2
Track 1-4: Orchestra conducted by Mort Lindsey Abbey Road Studios, 6 & 12 August 1964
Tracks 5-8: Orchestra conducted by Harry Robinson
Tracks 9-14: Orchestra conducted by Norrie Paramor
Tracks 15-18: Orchestra conducted by Harry Robinson
Track 22, vocals: Judy Garland and Saul Chaplin
Tracks 19-22: Orchestra conducted by Mort Lindsey
Track 22, vocals: Judy Garland and Saul Chaplin
Tracks 19-22: Orchestra conducted by Mort Lindsey
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Royal Albert Hall - Organ Restored - Simon Preston

Royal Albert Hall - Organ Restored - Simon Preston
ID: SIGCD084
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Organ Collection
Subcollection: Organ

Since the Royal Albert Hall organ was inaugurated by W.T.Best, the most famous performer of his day, in the presence of Queen Victoria on the 29th March 1871, it seems appropriate to begin this programme with one of Best’s own organ transcriptions: the Overture to Mendelssohn’s Oratorio St. Paul. Mendelssohn’s own performances of Bach on the organ in St. Paul’s Cathedral and elsewhere during the 1830s had been wildly acclaimed by the crowds who came to hear him and Best took full advantage of the enormous surge in interest in performances of music arranged for the organ. After the Mendelssohn Overture it is but a short step to the symphonic nature of Schumann’s Six Fugues on the name B-A-C-H, to which the wide dynamic range and sonic possibilities of the Albert Hall organ are ideally matched.

In the Bolcom Fantasia, the composer fuses a modern compositional idiom with two Southern Spirituals, breathing new life into both forms with shattering effect; in a way the same thing has happened to the Albert Hall organ, and with modern blowers for the bellows taking the place of the original steam engines of 1871, it certainly has enough wind now to cope with most contingencies - as you will hear.

In America the traditions of theatre organ playing are still kept very much alive. As a child I remember playing two very old records over and over again on a wind-up portable gramophone - the sort that had wooden needles which you had to keep sharpening.

The first was George Thalben-Ball playing The Ride of the Valkyries on the Alexandra Palace organ, and the other - equally favourite - was Quentin MacLean playing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on the organ in the Odeon Marble Arch. At the age of five I could not work out how Quentin MacLean did the opening glissando in Rhapsody in Blue; apparently he used the Siren stop - useful for Cops and Robbers chases in the silent movies - switched the organ on and, when the wind went into the bellows, it produced this very smooth glissando up to the top E flat!

Joseph Jongen and Siegfrid Karg-Elert were near contemporaries, and although generally regarded as organ composers, both were prolific in other forms: symphonic music, choral and chamber music and even opera. Jongen’s music is most fastidiously composed and the architectural shape and grandeur of the Sonata Eroďca is in wonderful contrast to the quite unexpected delicacy of Karg-Elert’s Valse Mignonne; here the extremely discerning listener may pick up some unexpected sounds of the gentler percussion stops on the enclosed Solo division of the Albert Hall organ.

Simon Preston, 2006
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