It Ain’t Necessarily So: Legendary Classic and Jazz Studio Takes
Victor Young · Jascha Heifetz · Emanuel Bay · Milton Kaye · Bing Crosby
It Ain’t Necessarily So: Legendary Classic and Jazz Studio Takes (2006), CD, on Deutsche Grammophon. Music by George Gershwin, Robert Russell Bennett, Claude Debussy, Cecil Burleigh, performed by Victor Young, Jascha Heifetz, Emanuel Bay, Milton Kaye; 47 tracks.
Composers
Tracklist
Disc 1
Levee Dance op. 27 no. 2 (based on “Go down, Moses”)
Paraphrase on “Largo al factotum” from G. Rossini’s opera “Il barbiere di Siviglia”
Porgy and Bess: A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess: A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
Porgy and Bess: Tempo di Blues “There’s A Boat That’s Leavin’ Soon For New York”
Porgy and Bess: Bess, You Is My Woman Now
Three Preludes: I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
George Gershwin - Three Preludes: No. 1. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
Disc 2
An Outlandish Suite: No. 2. Florida Night Song
Hexapoda: 3. Betty and Harold Close Their Eyes
Robert Russell Bennett - Hexapoda (Five Studies In Jitteroptera)
The Ballad of Mack the Knife, from The Threepenny Opera
Kurt Weill - Seven Pieces from "The Threepenny Opera": No. 1. Song of Human Insufficiency / Mack the Knife
Souvenir d’un lieu cher, op. 42: No. 3. Melodie in E-flat
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Souvenir d’un lieu cher for Violin and Piano, op. 42
Mélodie, from Orphée et Euridice
Christoph Willibald von Gluck - Mélodie (Dance of the Blessed Spirits)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Hymn to the Sun, from The Golden Cockerel (arr.Kreisler)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Hymn to the Sun from The Golden Cockerel
Small Concert Pieces, op. 21: No. 4. Moto perpetuo
Cecil Burleigh - 4 Small Concert Pieces, op. 21: No. 4. Moto perpetuo