In Reply to: Try the ORIGINAL jazz-band version, not Grofé's orchestration posted by John Marks on March 30, 2007 at 16:11:29:
MP3's of Paul Whiteman's 1924 acoustical recording of Rhapsody can be heard at the site linked below. This was recorded a few months after the premiere with George Gershwin himself playing piano. The piece was edited slightly to fit it onto one 78's limited playing time. It's an incredible, electrifying performance and as close as we can come to hearing what Rhapsody In Blue sounded like at Aeolian Hall on February 12, 1924. A poor recording of a brilliant performance always beats a state - of - the - art recording of an unimaginative performance.Some information about the 1924 recording and other versions can be found at the Classical Notes website.
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Follow Ups
- Try the REAL original version - Rob Doorack 07:27:24 03/31/07 (3)
- Let's try that again - Rob Doorack 08:07:51 03/31/07 (0)
- Re: Try the REAL original version - bjh 07:52:37 03/31/07 (0)
- Sorry, the link doesn't work. - John Marks 07:44:53 03/31/07 (0)