Gershwin - Plays Gershwin - The Piano Rolls download mp3, flac

Tracklist Hide Credits

1	Sweet And Lowdown Songwriter – Ira Gershwin	3:30
2	Novelette In Fourths	2:24
3	That Certain Feeling Songwriter – Ira Gershwin	2:45
4	So Am I Songwriter – Ira Gershwin	4:14
5	Rhapsody In Blue	14:22
6	Swanee Songwriter – Irving Caesar	2:17
7	When You Want 'Em, You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want 'Em Songwriter – Murray Roth	1:57
8	Kickin' The Clouds Away Songwriter – B. G. De Sylva*, Ira Gershwin	3:20
9	Idle Dreams Songwriter – Arthur Jackson	2:59
10	On My Mind The Whole Night Long Songwriter – Arthur Jackson	2:30
11	Scandal Walk Songwriter – Arthur Jackson	3:15
12	An American In Paris Arranged By [Piano Roll] – Frank Milne	16:35

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Elektra Entertainment
• Copyright (c) – Elektra Entertainment
• Manufactured By – WEA Manufacturing Inc.

Credits

• Design – John William Costa
• Performer [Pianola Operated By], Other [Booklet Notes By] – Artis Wodehouse
• Producer, Engineer – Max Wilcox
• Songwriter, Arranged By [Piano Rolls] – George Gershwin
• Technician [Player Piano Simulation Programmed By] – Richard Brandle
• Technician [Rolls Converted By] – Richard Tonnesen

Notes

Includes 12-page booklet of liner notes and credits.
Catalog number 79287-2 on disc and booklet.
Catalog number 9 79287-2 on spine.
Made in U.S.A.
Printed in the U.S.A.

Reconstruction of George Gershwin's own piano playing, using piano rolls that he arranged himself between 1916 and 1933.

Produced and engineered between November 1992 and June 1993 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City.
Original piano rolls courtesy of Keystone Music Roll Company.

CD booklet notes contain biographical data about Gershwin as well as information about the reconstruction process.

Arrangement of track 12 is originally credited to "Milne and Leith", which is in reality only one person. The complexity of the arrangement would have required a four-handed piano performance, which Milne faked by also giving credits to his own pseudonym "Leith".

Brief summary of the reconstruction process:
Some piano rolls were played back by a 1911 Pianola vorsetzer (operated by Wodehouse), which in turn operated a 9-foot Yamaha Disklavier grand piano. Other rolls were converted to MIDI files (by Tonnesen and Brandle), which could be fed directly to the Disklavier.
The Disklavier's performance is what is recorded on this release.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 0 7559-79287-2 3
• Matrix / Runout: 2 79287-2 SRC✽✻01 M1S5

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
7559-79287-2	Gershwin*	Plays Gershwin - The Piano Rolls ‎(CD, Comp)	Elektra Nonesuch	7559-79287-2	Germany	1993
7559-79287-2	Gershwin*	Plays Gershwin - The Piano Rolls ‎(CD, Comp)	Nonesuch	7559-79287-2	US	1993
9 79287-2, D 101675	Gershwin*	Plays Gershwin - The Piano Rolls ‎(CD, Comp, Club)	Elektra Nonesuch, BMG Direct Marketing, Inc.	9 79287-2, D 101675	US	1993
2-79287, 9 79287-2	Gershwin*	Plays Gershwin - The Piano Rolls ‎(CD, Album, Comp)	Elektra Nonesuch, Elektra Nonesuch	2-79287, 9 79287-2	Canada	1993
E2 79287	Gershwin*	Plays Gershwin - The Piano Rolls ‎(CD, Comp, Club)	Elektra Nonesuch	E2 79287	Canada	1993