popular music: gershwin (lullabies essential recording)

popular music: gershwin

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Nice Work If You Can Get It - A New Musical Comedy [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
George Gershwin, Ira Gerchwin

Shout Factory!, 2012

Two-time Tony Award® winner Matthew Broderick (The Producers) and three-time Tony® nominee Kelli O'Hara (South Pacific) star in a madcap tale of bootleggers, chorus girls, playboys and politicians set loose in a glorious Long Island mansion in the rip-roaring 1920s. The cast features 2012 Tony® winners Judy Kaye (Best Featured Actress in a Musical) and Michael McGrath (Best Featured Actor in a Musical). This brand-new musical features a ...

Violin Lullabies
Brahms, Gershwin, ...

Cedille Records, 2013

The world's first lullabies were simple songs sung or hummed by parents cradling their infants and rocking them to sleep. After the birth of violinist Rachel Barton Pine's first child in 2011 she could find no existing collection of classical violin lullaby scores or recordings, so she set about gathering sheet music from libraries around the world and recording her own versions with pianist Matthew Hagle. Familiar tunes and new discoveries ...

Broadway Greatest Hits
Richard Rodgers, Leonard Bernstein, ...

Sony, 1996

Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue / An American In Paris
George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, ...

Sony, 1990

Porgy and Bess (New Broadway Cast)
Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis, ...

P.S. Classics, 2012

Two CD set. New production of the Gershwins' Porgy And Bess starring four-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald, Drama Desk-nominee Norm Lewis, and two-time Tony Award-nominee David Alan Grier. The Associated Press hailed it as "a gorgeous version of the Gershwin masterpiece," while Newsday proclaimed it "a luscious piece of musical theatre: a gripping, in-your-face, vibrant revival that bursts with fierce immediacy''. Revered for its legendary ...

It's Time
Michael Bublé

Home, 2005

Young crooner Michael Buble delivers an album of love songs as powerful as chocolate and candlelight. From covers such as Ray Charles' "You Don't Know Me" to "Home," penned by Buble and Amy Foster-Gillies, the album is a romantic treat. With total sales of his CDs and DVDs in the U.S. well over 1 million units, plus glowing reviews and standing ovations everywhere, Buble is set for an even bigger and better year.

The Essential Yo-Yo Ma
Yo-Yo Ma

Sony, 2005

Time and time again, Yo-Yo Ma has captivated audiences with his stunning masterpieces and truly awe-inspiring performances. The Essential Yo-Yo Ma 2-Disc set includes 35 of Yo-Yo Ma's greatest masterpieces ranging from The Swan from Carnival of the Animals, Cristal, Gabriel's Oboe and even the epic The Eternal Vow from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Sony Classics. 2005.

What's New
Linda Ronstadt

Elektra / Wea, 1990

Very Best of
Cole Porter

Hip-O Records, 2004

Arm in arm with the new film about Cole Porter comes this "de-lovely" 18-track CD of the songwriting icon's most beloved tunes! The range of stars here is a testament to Porter's stature: Too Darn Hot Ella Fitzgerald; My Heart Belongs to Daddy Peggy Lee; Begin the Beguine Tony Bennett; True Love Dean Martin; Easy to Love Billie Holiday; Night and Day Fred Astaire, plus Mel Torm+ª, Sarah Vaughan and more!

Porgy & Bess
Miles Davis, Gil Evans

Sony, 1997

Miles' and Gil Evans' legendary interpretation of the Gershwin opera, boasting new notes and two bonus tracks only otherwise available on the Miles & Gil boxed set.

Essential George Gershwin
Various Artists

Sony, 2003

2 CDs of Gershwin's greatest compositions, sung and played by the preeminent artists in the Columbia vaults! Includes Swanee Al Jolson; Someone to Watch over Me Frank Sinatra; Summertime Billie Holiday; Soon Dorothy Kirsten; Let's Call the Whole Thing Off Fred Astaire; But Not for Me Doris Day; I've Got a Crush on You Ella Fitzgerald; Of Thee I Sing Hi-Lo's; Prelude No. 2 played by Gershwin himself, and more. 41 strokes of genius!

World's Greatest Piano Rags
Eubie Blake, William Bolcom, ...

Klavier, 2004

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / An American in Paris / Porgy and Bess Suite (Catfish Row) / Cuban Overture
George Gershwin, James Levine, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1993

Porgy and Bess Suite (Catfish Row), Cuban Overture, James Levine and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

The Best of Broadway - The American Musical (PBS Series)
Various Artists

Verve, 2004

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF BROADWAY MUSIC EVER ASSEMBLED! Decca Broadway & Columbia Broadway Masterworks have joined together in a historic partnership to offer music from the 6-part PBS series Broadway: THE AMERICAN MUSICAL Broadway's Greatest Hits - all on 1 CD! The definitive Broadway collection - features 21 of Broadway's most memorable songs of all time. A century's worth of Broadway's best - everything from Showboat to the Tony ...

The Opera Album
Giacomo Puccini, Richard Wagner, ...

EMI Classics, 2002

The greatest Opera stars on one double album. Roberto Alagna, Maria Callas Luciano Pavarotti,Angela Gheorghiu,Placido Domingo!!

Gershwin Greatest Hits
George Gershwin, Arthur Fiedler, ...

RCA, 1991

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Embraceable You: Romantic Songs of George Gershwin
Beegie Adair

Green Hill, 2004

Since he wrote his first published song in 1919, the melodies of George Gershwin have captured the hearts of music lovers, becoming some of the most loved standards of the Great Amercian Songbook. This latest release from Beegie Adair's Centennial Composers Collection features interpretations of George Gershwin's timeless romantic songs.

George Gershwin - Porgy & Bess / Trevor Nunn · Sir Simon Rattle · W. White · C. Haymon · Glyndebourne ...
Willard White, Cynthia Haymon

EMI Classics, 2001

The Gershwins' musical masterpiece Porgy and Bess is one of America's greatest works. This production was adapted for the screen by Trevor Nunn and Yves Baigneres. It was directed by Trevor Nunn and is based on the highly successful staging of the original Glyndebourne Festival Opera production in 1986-87, which was remounted at Covent Garden in the autumn of 1992 with most of the original cast. Immediately after that performance the ...

Joshua Bell - Gershwin Fantasy
Joshua Bell, George Gershwin, ...

Sony, 1998

On Gershwin Fantasy , Joshua Bell's Stradivari embraces the lyrical spirit of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess with more success than most vocalists. Accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra, Bell's violin literally sings through "It Ain't Necessarily So," "Summertime," "I Got Rhythm," and "Love Is Here to Stay," while John Williams ( Saving Private Ryan , Schindler's List ) serves double duty as conductor and pianist on several tracks. Three ...

Bernstein Century - Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, etc / Bernstein, New York PO
Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, ...

Sony, 1997

Happy is the composer who has an advocate as passionate and talented as Leonard Bernstein. These Copland performances have been the preferred versions since they were first issued--better even than the composer's own, later recordings. Originally they were spread over two discs, but thanks to the extended playing time of the compact disc, you can now get all three great Copland ballets together, along with the ever popular Fanfare for the ...