| | Oscar Levant Plays Gershwin Soundtrack CD (3 Customer Reviews)
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Oscar Levant Plays Gershwin Soundtrack Music | List Price | $7.99 (You save $0.40) | | Label | CBS Masterworks | | Orig Year | 1990 | | All Time Sales Rank |  679  | | CD Universe Part number | 1238130 | | Catalog number | 42514 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 25, 1990 |
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When one applies for a job, sometimes the response is that you're overqualified. The same may be the case for Peisha McPhee. Her classically trained, strong, clear voice of operatic proportions doesn't always fit well with the songs on the play list, songs that require somewhat more vocal dynamics than McPhee gives. Trying hard as she can to restrain her powerful voice, she comes on too strong for such pop material as "Ill Wind" and "Little Girl Blue," which require greater subtlety than McPhee provides. At the same time, her voice and demeanor go well with songs that have a strong emotional tug, such as "Who Can I Turn To?" There's also a cleverly contrived dubbed a cappella duet on "Isn't It Romantic." But her forte is in the Gershwin material. "The Man I Love" and the Gershwin medley require the dramatic reading that a formidable voice like McPhee's can give them. Her sole accompaniment for this session is pianist, composer, and voice teacherMel Dangcil. Usually the concern is that the piano player may overwhelm the singer. Not the case here. Dangcil has to work hard not be swamped by the strong voice of McPhee. The result is that matters sometimes get a bit busy. McPhee needs more than just a piano to provide an adequate framework for her exceptional voice. For the pure pleasure of hearing a lovely voice, this album is recommended. ~ Dave Nathan
Ms.McPhee is an extra ordinary talent. She brings passion to many of the songs, especially Harold Arlen's Ill Wind - and I most enjoyed her a cappella rendition of Rodgers and Hart's Isn't It Romantic.We discover a lonely woman remembering her lost childhood as she sings the Rodgers and Hart standard Little Girl Blue.She hopelessly tries to face her demons with the Arlen/Koehler lament Ill Wind.Sunlight and hope slowly enter her heart as she lifts her spirit with the immortal Who Can I Turn To? from "The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd."Three well-known love ballads comprise the scenario about the man of
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You've got to love a guy who can swing with the music of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Johann Sebastian Bach. Johann Sebastian Bach? Yes, Bach. This collection features the sterling trumpet playing of Wynton Marsalis in works by Classical composers, spanning nearly three centuries.
Marsalis shows off his amazing technique in everything he plays but really shines in music of the Baroque. He effortlessly fires off the fiendishly high trumpet part from Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No.2," seemingly without coming up for air. More Baroque fireworks are launched skywards as Marsalis is joined by soprano Kathleen Battle in the aria "Let the Bright Seraphim" from George Frideric Handel's 'Samson.'
It is not all Baroque pyrotechnics however. Marsalis is also able to muster tenderness and grace in a moving rendition of the famous Irish tune, " 'Tis The Last Rose of Summer." The collection is rounded out with music by 20th-Century composers Leonard Bernstein, Henri Tomasi and a memorable performance of "The Prayer of St. Gregory" by Alan Hovhaness.
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I Wonder What Became of Me features 12 early tracks from cabaret vocalist Anita Ellis recorded in the mid-'50s. The program consists mainly of standards, as she dips into the songbooks of George and Ira Gershwin ("They Can't Take That Away from Me"), Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn ("Something to Live For"), Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart ("Wait Till You See Him"), and Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer ("I Wonder What Became of Me"). Ellis fans will definitely want this set, as so little of her material remains in print. ~ Al Campbell
Recorded in 1956. Originally released on Epic (3280).
Personnel: Anita Ellis (vocals).
Recording information: 06/25/1956-06/27/1956.
Arranger: Luther Henderson.
Personnel includes: Anita Ellis (vocals); Luther Henderson (arranger, conductor).
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Recorded in Paris, France, December 1954.
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Standard Screen; Soundtrack English
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Standard Screen; Soundtrack English
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This is a Super Audio CD playable only on Super Audio CD players.
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