Description
Gershwin – Summertime / Yehudi Menuhin & Stéphane Grappelli / Insp!ration / Warner Classics Audio CD 2019 Stereo
UPC 0190295453619
"Summertime" is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP.
The song soon became a popular and much-recorded jazz standard, described as "without doubt ... one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote ... Gershwin's highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of blacks in the southeast United States from the early twentieth century". Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has characterized Heyward's lyrics for "Summertime" and "My Man's Gone Now" as "the best lyrics in the musical theater".
Label: Warner Classics – 0190295453619
Series: Insp!ration
Format: CD, Compilation, Stereo
Country: Europe
Released: 2019
Genre: Jazz
Tracklist:
| 1 | Fascinatin' Rhythm | 2:19 | |
| 2 | Soon | 3:47 | |
| 3 | Summertime | 4:23 | |
| 4 | Embraceable You | 3:10 | |
| 5 | Liza | 3:39 | |
| 6 | A Foggy Day | 3:45 | |
| 7 | 's Wonderful | 2:46 | |
| 8 | The Man I Love | 4:43 | |
| 9 | I Got Rhythm | 2:58 | |
| 10 | He Loves And She Loves | 2:55 | |
| 11 | They Can't Take That Away From Me |
4:49 | |
| 12 | They All Laughed | 3:00 | |
| 13 | Funny Face | 3:22 | |
| 14 | Our Love Is Here To Stay | 3:58 | |
| 15 | Lady Be Good | 3:37 | |
| 16 | These Foolish Things | 4:27 | |
| 17 |
Laura | 4:29 | |
| 18 | April In Paris | 3:35 | |
| 19 | Autumn Leaves | 4:40 | |
| 20 | Autumn In New York | 4:17 |
- Arranged By – Max Harris (tracks: 1 to 9, 14 to 20), Nelson Riddle (tracks: 10 to 13)
- Bass – Eddie Tripp (tracks: 10 to 13), Jack Sewing (tracks: 20), Ken Baldock (tracks: 14 to 16), Lennie Bush (tracks: 1 to 5, 7, 9, 17), Lennie Bush (tracks: 14 to 16), Marc Fasset (tracks: 17 to 20), Pierre Michelot (tracks: 6, 8)
- Composed By – Raksin (tracks: 17), Harburg (tracks: 18), George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin (tracks: 1 to 15), Strachey (tracks: 16), Prévert (tracks: 19), Mercer (tracks: 19), Kosma (tracks: 19), Duke (tracks: 18), Duke* (tracks: 20)
- Design – Christine Schweitzer
- Design Concept, Booklet Editor – Martina Motlik, Philipp Puls (2)
- Directed By – Max Harris (tracks: 1 to 5, 7, 9, 14 to 20), Nelson Riddle (tracks: 10 to 13)
- Drums – Alan Ganley (tracks: 10 to 13), Chris Karan (tracks: 14 to 16), Ronnie Verrell (tracks: 1 to 5, 7, 9, 17 to 20), Tony Crombie (tracks: 14 to 16)
- Ensemble – Alan Clare Trio (tracks: 14 to 16)
- Flute – Ray Swinfield (tracks: 10 to 13)
- Guitar – Denny Wright (tracks: 1 to 5, 7, 9), Ike Isaacs (tracks: 1 to 5, 7, 9), John Etheridge (tracks: 17), Marc Fosset (tracks: 18 to 20), Martin Taylor (tracks: 10 to 13, 17 to 20)
- Harp – David Snell (2) (tracks: 10 to 13, 17 to 20)
- Percussion – Derek Price (tracks: 10 to 13)
- Photography By [Booklet photo] – Maciej Bledowski
- Photography By [Cover photo] – Stuart Monk
- Piano – Alan Clare (tracks: 14 to 16)
- Piano, Keyboards – Alan Clare (tracks: 1 to 5, 7, 9), Brian Lemmon (tracks: 18 to 20), Laurie Holloway (tracks: 6, 8, 10 to 13, 17), Max Harris (tracks: 1 to 5, 7, 9)
- Violin – Stéphane Grappelli, Yehudi Menuhin
