Audio CD review:
Claus Adam, Yo-Yo Ma, George Gershwin, André Kostelanetz, John Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Louis Lane, Michael Tilson Thomas, Juilliard String Quartet, Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra - Gershwin Greatest Hits

Claus Adam, Yo-Yo Ma, George Gershwin, André Kostelanetz, John Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Louis Lane, Michael Tilson Thomas, Juilliard String Quartet, Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra - Gershwin Greatest Hits

Band: Claus Adam, Yo-Yo Ma, George Gershwin, André Kostelanetz, John Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Louis Lane, Michael Tilson Thomas, Juilliard String Quartet, Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra Title: Gershwin Greatest Hits Rating: Release Date: 09 August, 1994 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Strike Up The Band 2: Rhapsody In Blue 3: Prelude No. 1 4: Piano Concerto In F 5: An American In Paris 6: Prelude No. 3 7: Medley From Porgy And Bess 8: Fascinating Rhythm 9: Lullaby 10: Promenade (Walking the Dog) 11: Cuban Overture

Customer Reviews Muffled The Andre Previn/LSO recording is much better mixed; at times it seems like there's a muffle on the mikes, or that you're hearing it from a distance. This is a decent enough recording, but it's not anywhere near the best that I have heard. If I wanted good, dynamic background music, I'd do this. If I wanted to really listen to the music, I'd pick another version. Somewhat disappointing. I found the brass too tinny sounding, and the rhythm off in a few places. I bought this for the full-length rendition of Rhapsody in Blue. I like the snippet of this song on the "Best of the Milleneum" CD much better. Gershwin At His Best in Hearts! When mediocre orchestra 1st tackled Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" at Smoky Mtn Music Camp we were preparing for Sunday's outdoor Concert. To someone who came along as a teenage boy in the mid-1940's, this CD has the elements of authenticity, even surprise, musical history, highly intense performances, and ways evoking memories of emotional highlights of my Youth. Pianos were played by two friends who've presided Music Dept at Carson-Newman College in East Tennessee. In the Trombone section was a skinny kid with too much hair and too big an ego! When our esteemed conductor began the opening bars the Clarinet Soloist, my close friend Danny Boy slide-up the chromatic scale with fleurish. He later became a NC Doctor! He likely plays clarinet for his own amazement in someone's Dixieland Band! On this wondrous CD there are historic names like Bernstein, Kostelanez, John Williams and Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductors. Andre Previn, Yo-Yo Ma and Sarah Vaughan as Soloists. I would have a hard time choosing which may be called my favorite! It would depend on the day they are playing in my car. . . traveling to Columbia Seminary classes or GA Diagnostic Prison for lunch with Chaplain friends! I often sing along with the Rhapsody as I did in 1949 when Oscar Levant soloed with Chattanooga Orch. My very young wife was playing in the first violin section! Still today I am totally wiped out when anyone as intensely romantic as Sarah Vaughan sings "Summertime" or "I Loves You, Porgy!" Is it not amazingly wondrous that someone could create so much enjoyable music in his short lifetime of 39 years? I never wish to part with this all-time favorite 10-Star Recording! Retired Chaplain Fred W Hood. . You can see a complete list of all Claus Adam, Yo-Yo Ma, George Gershwin, André Kostelanetz, John Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Louis Lane, Michael Tilson Thomas, Juilliard String Quartet, Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra discography, or go back to the Claus Adam, Yo-Yo Ma, George Gershwin, André Kostelanetz, John Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Louis Lane, Michael Tilson Thomas, Juilliard String Quartet, Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra tabs