It Ain’t Necessarily So: Legendary Classic and Jazz Studio Takes

It Ain’t Necessarily So: Legendary Classic and Jazz Studio Takes

Album
Label Deutsche Grammophon Release date Format 2×CD Country 🌍 Europe Discogs https://www.discogs.com/release/9009296

Tracklist 127:37

CD 1

1 From the Canebrake, op. 5 no. 1 Samuel Gardner 1:35
2 Jamaican Rumba Arthur Benjamin 1:38
3 Beau Soir Claude Debussy 2:09
4 Pièce en forme de habanera Maurice Ravel 2:39
5 Levee Dance op. 27 no. 2 (based on “Go down, Moses”) Clarence Cameron White 3:07
6 Paraphrase on “Largo al factotum” from G. Rossini’s opera “Il barbiere di Siviglia” Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco 5:22
7 Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair Stephen Collins Foster 2:58
8 A la valse Victor Herbert 1:38
9 Humoresque in G-flat major, op. 101 no. 7 Antonín Dvořák 3:34
10 Gweedore Brae [traditional] 3:12
11 Old Folks at Home Stephen Collins Foster 3:20
12 Traditional: Deep River [traditional] 2:24
13 Viennese · Wienerisch Leopold Godowsky 3:47
14 White Christmas Irving Berlin 3:22
15 Porgy and Bess: Summertime George Gershwin 1:43
16 Porgy and Bess: A Woman Is A Sometime Thing George Gershwin 1:50
17 Porgy and Bess: My Man’s Gone Now George Gershwin 3:54
18 Porgy and Bess: It Ain’t Necessarily So George Gershwin 2:32
19 Porgy and Bess: Tempo di Blues “There’s A Boat That’s Leavin’ Soon For New York” George Gershwin 2:54
20 Porgy and Bess: Bess, You Is My Woman Now George Gershwin 3:07
21 Three Preludes: I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso George Gershwin 1:32
22 Three Preludes: II. Andante con moto e poco rubato George Gershwin 2:53
23 Three Preludes: III. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso George Gershwin 1:26

CD 2

1 An Outlandish Suite: No. 2. Florida Night Song Susan Dyer 3:00
2 Golliwog’s Cakewalk Claude Debussy 2:34
3 Clair de lune Claude Debussy 3:44
4 Ao pé da fogueira Flausino Rodriques do Vale 1:14
5 Huella, op. 49 Julián Aguirre 2:30
6 Prelude in C-sharp minor, op. 34 no. 10 Dmitri Shostakovich 2:01
7 Prelude in D-flat major, op. 34 no. 15 Dmitri Shostakovich 0:59
8 Waves at Play Edwin Grasse 1:42
9 March, from Love for Three Oranges Sergei Prokofiev 1:29
10 Masks, from Romeo and Juliet Sergei Prokofiev 2:05
11 Hexapoda: 1. Gut-Bucket Gus Robert Russell Bennett 2:00
12 Hexapoda: 2. Jane Shakes Her Hair Robert Russell Bennett 1:05
13 Hexapoda: 3. Betty and Harold Close Their Eyes Robert Russell Bennett 1:43
14 Hexapoda: 4. Jim Jives Robert Russell Bennett 1:00
15 Hexapoda: 5. …Till Dawn Sunday Robert Russell Bennett 1:51
16 The Ballad of Mack the Knife, from The Threepenny Opera Kurt Weill 2:22
17 Souvenir d’un lieu cher, op. 42: No. 3. Melodie in E-flat Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky 3:49
18 Nocturne in E-flat, op. 55 no. 2 Fryderyk Chopin 3:56
19 Mélodie, from Orphée et Euridice Christoph Willibald Gluck 2:54
20 Bird as prophet, from Waldszenen Robert Schumann 2:35
21 Hymn to the Sun, from The Golden Cockerel Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov 3:07
22 Dance no. 4 Alexander Krein 1:36
23 Hungarian Dance no. 7 in A major Johannes Brahms 2:03
24 The Swan Camille Saint‐Saëns 2:39
25 Size Pictures, op. 30: No. 4. Hills Cecil Burleigh 1:35
26 Small Concert Pieces, op. 21: No. 4. Moto perpetuo Cecil Burleigh 1:17
27 Berceuse, from Jocelyn Benjamin Godard 3:15
28 Where My Caravan Has Rested Hermann Löhr 2:56
29 When You Make Love to Me (Don’t Make Believe) Jim Hoyl 1:39