American Music

American Music

by Simon Rattle
American Music

American Music

by Simon Rattle

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Product Details

Release Date: 09/16/2008
Label: Emi Classics / Warner Classics
UPC: 5099921501425
Rank: 130839

Tracks

Disc 1

  1. Harmonielehre, for orchestra~Part 1
  2. Harmonielehre, for orchestra~Part 2. The Anfortas Wound
  3. Harmonielehre, for orchestra~Part 3. Meister Eckhardt and Quackie
  4. The Chairman Dances, foxtrot for orchestra
  5. Tromba Lontana, fanfare for orchestra
  6. Short Ride in a Fast Machine, fanfare for orchestra
  7. A Symphony: New England Holidays (Holidays Symphony), for orchestra, S. 5 (K. 1A4)~Decoration Day. Conclusion
  8. Rhapsody in Blue, for piano & orchestra (orchestrated by F. Grof¿¿)~Opening
  9. A Celebration of some 100 x 150 notes, for orchestra
  10. Symphonic Dances (9) from "West Side Story", for orchestra (orchestrated with Ramin & Kostal)~Mambo

Disc 2

  1. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 1. Overture
  2. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 1. Christopher Street
  3. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 1. Ohio
  4. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 1. Conquering New York
  5. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 1. One hundred easy ways to lose a man
  6. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 1. What a waste
  7. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 1. A little bit in love
  8. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 1. Pass the football
  9. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 1. Conversation piece
  10. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 1. A quiet girl
  11. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 1. Conga!
  12. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 1. Entr'acte
  13. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 2. My darlin' Eileen
  14. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 2. Swing!
  15. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 2. Quiet incidental
  16. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 2. Reprise. Ohio
  17. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 2. It's love
  18. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 2. Ballet at eh Village Vortex
  19. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 2. The Wrong Note Rag
  20. Wonderful Town, musical in 2 acts~Act 2. Reprise. It's love
  21. Prelude, Fugue & Riffs, for clarinet & jazz ensemble

Disc 3

  1. Take the A Train
  2. You're the One, song
  3. Sophisticated Lady, musical~[Excerpt]
  4. Harlem
  5. Isfahan, song
  6. Ad Lib on Nippon, song
  7. That Doo-wah Thing (after Ellington & Mills: It Don't Mean a Thing)
  8. Something to Live For, song
  9. Come Sunday
  10. Solitude
  11. Maybe Someday, song
  12. Things Ain't What They Used To Be

Disc 4

  1. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 1. Scene 1. Introduction
  2. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 1. Scene 1. Summertime and the livin' is easy
  3. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 1. Scene 1. Oh, nobody knows when the Lawd is goin' to call
  4. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 1. Scene 1. Give him to me...Lissen to yo' daddy warn you. Oh, a woman is a sometime thing
  5. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 1. Scene 1. Here's the ol' crap shark!...No, no, brudder
  6. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 1. Scene 1. Here comes Big Boy!
  7. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 1. Scene 1. Six to make!
  8. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 1. Scene 1. Jesus, he killed him!...That you, Sportin' Life?
  9. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 1. Scene 2. Where is brudder Robbins?...Come on, sister
  10. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 1. Scene 2. Overflow, overflow
  11. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 1. Scene 2. A saucer-burial set-up, I see
  12. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 1. Scene 2. My man's gone now
  13. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 1. Scene 2. How de saucer stan' now, my sister
  14. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 1. Scene 2. Oh, the train is at thestation

Disc 5

  1. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 1. Oh, I'm agoin' out to the Blackfish banks
  2. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 1. Mus' be you mens forgot about de picnic...Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin'
  3. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 1. Lissen there, what I tells you...I hates yo' struttin' style
  4. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 1. Mornin', Lawyer, lookin' for somebody?
  5. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 1. Boy. Come here, boy!
  6. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 1. Buzzard keep on flyin' over
  7. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 1. 'Lo, Bess, goin' to de picnic?
  8. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 1. Honey, we sure goin' strut our stuff today!...Bess, you is my woman now
  9. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 1. Oh, I can't sit down
  10. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 2. I ain't got no shame doin' what I like to do!
  11. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 2. It ain't necessarily soo...Shame on all you sinners
  12. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 2. Crown!...You know very well dis Crown!
  13. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 2. Oh, what you want wid Bess?
  14. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 3. Honey, dat's all de breadfast I got time for
  15. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 3. Take yo' han's off me, I say
  16. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 3. Oh, Doctor Jesus
  17. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 3. Oh dey's so fresh an' fine
  18. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 3. Porgy, Porgy, dat you there ain' it?
  19. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 3. I wants to stay here, but I ain't worthy
  20. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 3. Why you been out on that wharf so long, Clara?

Disc 6

  1. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 4. Oh, Doctor Jesus
  2. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 4. One of dese mornings you goin' to rise up singin'
  3. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 4. Oh, dere's somebody knocking at de do'
  4. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 4. You is a nice parcel of Christians!
  5. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 4. A red-headed woman make a choo-choo jump its track
  6. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 2. Scene 4. All right, I'm goin' out to get Clara...Oh, Doctor Jesus
  7. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 3. Scene 1. Clara, Clara, don't you be downhearted...You low-life skunk, ain' you got no shame
  8. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 3. Scene 1. Summertime...(Porgy kills Crown)
  9. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 3. Scene 2. Introduction...Wait for us at the corner
  10. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 3. Scene 2. Come out here, both of you
  11. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 3. Scene 2. Oh, Lawd, what I goin' do!...Oh, Gawd! They goin' make him look on Crown's face
  12. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 3. Scene 2. Listen: There's a boat dat's leaving soon for New York
  13. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 3. Scene 3. Introduction
  14. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 3. Scene 3. Good mornin' sistuh!...It's Porgy comin' home
  15. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 3. Scene 3. Dem white folks sure ain' put nuttin' over on this baby
  16. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 3. Scene 3. Here Mingo, what's de matter wid you all?
  17. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 3. Scene 3. Where's Bess?
  18. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 3. Scene 3. Bess is gone
  19. Porgy and Bess, opera~Act 3. Scene 3. O Lawd, I'm on my way

Disc 7

  1. Rhapsody in Blue, for piano & orchestra (orchestrated by F. Grof¿¿)
  2. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~Swanee
  3. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~Nobody but you
  4. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~The man I love
  5. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~I'll build a stairway to paradise
  6. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~Do it again
  7. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~Fascinating rhythm
  8. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~Oh, lady, be good!
  9. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~Somebody loves me
  10. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~Sweet and low-down
  11. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~Clap yo' hands
  12. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~Do, do, do
  13. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~My one and only
  14. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~'s Wonderful
  15. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~Strike up the band
  16. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~Who cares?
  17. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~That certain feeling
  18. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~Liza (All the clouds'll roll away)
  19. Gershwin Song-Book, song transcriptions (18) for piano~I got rhythm
  20. Concerto in F, for piano & orchestra~1. Allegro
  21. Concerto in F, for piano & orchestra~2. Adagio - Andante con moto
  22. Concerto in F, for piano & orchestra~3. Allegro agitato
  23. After You've Gone, song
  24. Nobody's Sweetheart
  25. Sweet Sue (Just You)

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Simon Rattle   Primary Artist,Conductor
Simone Sauphanor   Vocals
Wesley Warren   Trumpet
Audra McDonald   Vocals
Peter Donohoe   Piano
Kim Criswell   Vocals
Michael Dore   Vocals
Rodney Gilfry   Vocals
Cynthia Haymon   Vocals
Cynthia Clarey   Vocals
Camellia Johnson   Vocals,Soprano (Vocal)
Timothy Robinson   Vocals
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group   Orchestra
Michael Forest   Vocals
Paula Ingram   Vocals
Billy J. Mitchell   Vocals
Maureen Braithwaite   Vocals,Soprano (Vocal)
Johnny Worthy   Vocals
Ron Travis   Vocals
Marietta Simpson   Vocals
Mervin Wallace   Vocals
Michael Collins   Clarinet
Kimberly Cobb   Vocals
Blair Wilson   Vocals
Jim Malary   Baritone (Vocal)
Colin Parr   Clarinet
Robert Fardell   Vocals
Craig Rutenberg   Choir/Chorus,Choir Director
Bruce Hubbard   Vocals
Linda Thompson   Vocals
Joe Lovano   Sax (Tenor)
Clark Terry   Trumpet
Thomas Hampson   Vocals
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra   Orchestra
Lewis Nash   Drums
Joshua Redman   Sax (Tenor)
Harvey & The Wallbangers   Band
Regina Carter   Violin
Rev. Curtis Watson   Vocals
London Sinfonietta   Orchestra
Brent Barrett   Vocals
London Voices   Choir/Chorus
John Barclay   Trumpet
London Philharmonic Orchestra   Orchestra
Geri Allen   Piano
Harolyn Blackwell   Vocals
Willard White   Vocals
Peter Washington   Bass
Melanie Marshall   Vocals
Lynton Atkinson   Vocals
Bobby Watson   Sax (Alto)
Lena Horne   Vocals
Richard Sampson   Oboe
Mark "Exit" Goodchild   Bass
William Johnson   Vocals
Autris Paige   Vocals
Peter Walden   Cor Anglais
Barrington Coleman   Vocals
Colenton Freeman   Vocals,Tenor (Vocal)
Gregg Baker   Vocals
Wayne Marshall   Piano,Vocals
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus   Choir/Chorus
Raemond Martin   Vocals
Karl Daymond   Vocals
Ted Maynard   Vocals
Damon Evans   Vocals
Ritchie Pitts   Bass (Vocal)
Jonathan Holland   Trumpet
Alan Tilvern   Vocals
Andrew Barnell   Bassoon
Hyacinth Nicholls   Vocals,Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)
Anne Fridal   Vocals
Coleman Barrington   Vocals

Technical Credits

Stephen Johns   Producer
Simon Kiln   Editing
Peter Adamik   Photography
Tony Harrison   Assistant Producer
Peter Quantrill   Editorial
Andrew Keener   Producer
David R. Murray   Producer,Executive Producer
Ira Gershwin   Lyricist
DuBose Heyward   Lyricist,Librettist
John Kurlander   Balance Engineer
Mike Hatch   Balance Engineer
Michael Sheady   Balance Engineer
John Fraser   Producer
Dennis Collins   Liner Note Translation
Mark Vigars   Balance Engineer
Ferde Grofe   Orchestration
Gudrun Meier   Liner Note Translation
Mike Clements   Balance Engineer
Martin Cotton   Liner Notes
Kevin Jones   Design
Stephen Frost   Editing,Producer
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