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| Instrument: |
Piano Solo
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| Genre: |
Jazz
Standards 20th Century |
| Format: |
Reduction
Accompaniment CD Solo Part Listening CD Play Along |
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Rhapsody in Blue - Music Minus One by George Gershwin (1898-1937). For solo piano. Jazz, 20th Century and Play Along. Difficulty: difficult. Instrumental solo part, piano reduction and performance/accompaniment CD. Solo part and standard notation (does not include words to the songs). Published by Music Minus One (MO.MMOCD3083).
ISBN 1596150777. With solo part and standard notation (does not include words to the songs). Jazz, 20th Century and Play Along. 9x12 inches.
Gershwin's masterpiece is now available in a thrilling MMO version! The piano concerto that transformed modern music and integrated jazz sensibilities into 'serious' music is a magical experience for player and listener alike. This deluxe edition includes a new enhanced -20% reduced-speed version for your practicing ease.Includes the printed Warner Bros. score for solo piano with orchestral reduction; informative liner notes; and a digital stereo compact disc, voluminously indexed for your convenience, containing a complete version with soloist; then a second performance of the orchestral accompaniment, minus you, the soloist. Includes a second accompaniment version at a -20% tempo for learning purposes.
Anonymous
Location: from Buffalo, NY
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
December 19, 2005
Love the Piece, Loathe the Recording
I adore the Rhapsody in Blue. It is such an essential part to one's musical repertoire, but the recording isn't all that great. Some passages, like the cadenza, sound fairly decent, but overall, the quality is poor and I don't care for Torodov's overall interpretation, but I am forced to...
10 of 22 people found this review helpful.
David Victor Goldberg
Location: from Dallas, TX
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
December 21, 2003
More thought should have gone into this
Music minus one doesn't work well if the piece has large gaps for piano solos. The problem might have been solved had the piano been completely separated from the orchestra and given its own channel, allowing the player to turn down the volume of the piano channel so as to...
11 of 22 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Paris, France
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
August 21, 2002
It is good music!
Well, first I have to say, that I love Gershwin! So, I am trying to get all possible recordings and took this one because of the CD. The sound is somehow strange, but the music these people are doing is perfect! It is more the classical version of the rhapsody,...
13 of 28 people found this review helpful.
John
Location: from New York
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
July 31, 2002
Not the best ....
I found that it would have saved me more money just to buy the double piano version for 15 $ rather than waste another 20 for this package. The CD had awful sound quality, the pianist interpreted his rhythms from the music as I have never heard it before, (And...
11 of 23 people found this review helpful.
J. Goodmann
Location: from Hannover
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced