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Gershwins Best Recording.

Looking for George Gershwins' best sounding CD. Prefer a Live performance. Just bought the $5.99 CD of Arthur Fiedler's Boston Pops at Best Buy and it sucks!!! It sounds like a tin can, and they decived on the cover of the CD that it was remastered in 24 bit. This recording is terrible.
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sugarbrie
3,854 posts
 
I almost forgot; Gershwin's "American in Paris" is also on the Bernstein/Columiba recording. Also excellent!!
topkat OP
50 posts
 
Thank you Sugarbrie for your input.
rcprince
3,080 posts
 
If you have a DVD player that will play a 24/96 disc (or a 24/96 player), the two-disc Classic Records DAD reissue of Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony with Gershwin's works for orchestra and piano and orchestra is very good, both performances and sonics. Principal problem is that the channels are reversed on various tracks. This was an old Vox Box; Reference Recordings reissued some of it on vinyl, and I don't know if Vox or someone put it out on CD.
cornfedboy
1,645 posts
 
i really like the michael tilson thomas' "rhapsody in blue" on cbs masterworks. another excellent cd with many of the same works as the cbs is the german pressing of the royal philharmonic orchestra, also titled "rhapsody..." (rpo 8008).
narrod
1,064 posts
 
By the Stereophile CD "Rhapsody". It is incredible.
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