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- Gershwin Fantasy Joshua Bell John Williams London CD
- Artist: Joshua Bell
- Release Date: Jul 1998
- Format: CD
- Record Label: Sony Classical
- Genre: Classical, Fantasy, Film Score, Musical Comedy, Prelude, Song
- UPC: 074646065921
This disc was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for "Best Classical Crossover Album." Jascha Heifetz asked George Gershwin to compose a violin work, but the composer's early death prevented what would no doubt have been a fruitful collaboration. Whether Alexander Courage's 'Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra on "Porgy and Bess"" is "as close as we can get to the violin concerto Gershwin never wrote," as Joshua Bell says, is certainly a point for debate. Courage, composer of the original 'Star Trek" theme, was asked by conductor John Williams to assemble the fantasy and the result is a showpiece for violin which uses eight songs from 'Porgy and Bess." The work is a successful vehicle for the soloist: Bell's Stradivarius sings as he glides through the passage work with ease.
GERSHWIN FANTASY also includes Heifetz's violin-piano arrangement of Gershwin's 'Three Preludes for Piano" and new violin-orchestra arrangements of six more Gershwin tunes. The song arrangements, two by Jonathan Tunick and the rest by William David Brohn, are nicely varied and allow Gershwin and Bell equal footing. Gershwin himself makes an appearance in "Sweet and Low-Down": the arrangement includes a piano roll the composer made of the tune.
Track Listings
1. Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra on Porgy and Bess (excerpts) (Instrumental) Joshua Bell;London Symphony Orchestra;John Williams 20:24
2. Three Preludes/I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso (Instrumental) Joshua Bell;John Williams 1:40
3. Three Preludes/II. Andante (Instrumental) Joshua Bell;John Williams 3:47
4. Three Preludes/III. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso (Instrumental) Joshua Bell;John Williams 1:18
5. I Got Rhythm Joshua Bell;London Symphony Orchestra;John Williams 4:17
6. Embraceable You Joshua Bell;London Symphony Orchestra;John Williams 4:12
7. Nice Work If You Can Get It (Instrumental) Joshua Bell;London Symphony Orchestra;John Williams 3:37
8. Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) (Instrumental) Joshua Bell;London Symphony Orchestra;John Williams 3:51
9. But Not For Me (Instrumental) Joshua Bell;London Symphony Orchestra;John Williams 4:17
10. Sweet and Low-Down* (Instrumental) Joshua Bell;London Symphony Orchestra;John Williams 3:31
11. Love Is Here To Stay (Instrumental) Joshua Bell;London Symphony Orchestra;John Williams 3:48
This CD is nearly new condition with a few faint marks on the CD that do not effect playability.
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