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In Reply to: RE: "Who are these people? And how can they be so good?" posted by Chris from Lafayette on August 12, 2016 at 13:44:56
Well, I've listened to this album twice on Tidal--on headphones with iPod and AudioQuest Dragonfly Red, and today on my main system through the Tidal app on my Squeezebox Touch. The reviewer you linked to was pretty much spot on, but I disagree about the Rhapsody in Blue. It was the highlight for me. The orchestra and soloist were having a ball digging in and showing their jazz chops! I've heard a lot of dull performances on CD, but this one far from that. Isn't it interesting that the reviewer commented on the risk of playing French music when so far from France, but nothing about the idiomatic playing of the American Gershwin? I might have to order the CD mainly because discs still sound better than streaming on my systems.
As I think I've mentioned it before, if you want a really off-the-wall version of Rhapsody in Blue, you can't go wrong with the Weissenberg/Ozawa/Berlin Philharmonic performance on EMI.
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I've still got to order my copy too. I also checked HB Direct to see what their price was, but the album is out-of-stock there too.BTW, I haven't heard that Weissenberg/Ozawa/BPO Rhapsody in Blue in a long time, but I remember liking it very much. Another off-the-wall performance of this work that I also really like is the Stanislav Knor / Vaclav Neumann / Prague Symphony version on Supraphon:
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There's a very amusing review of this performance on Amazon, and I'll quote the first sentence:
"The first few times I listened to this CD, I was struck with how incongruous it was to be hearing the very American, even specifically Manhattanite, Gershwin upbeat music, played as if it were instead downbeat Eastern European musical art, but now I cannot listen to it played any other way."
The review continues in this same vein - and I do wonder whether the poster might have tongue firmly in cheek! ;-)
EDIT: I changed my mind and just downloaded the album (FLAC CD quality) from CD Baby. Haven't listened to it yet.
Edits: 08/13/16 08/13/16
Yeah, the Amazon reviewer might have hit the nail on the head here.Listening on QOBUZ and it certainly is a different take on this particular 'Gershwin Tune', (his Concerto in 'F' not Rhapsody in Blue).
Edits: 08/13/16
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