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Thread #173083   Message #4197223
Posted By: GUEST,Steve Shaw
15-Feb-24 - 07:45 AM
Thread Name: Rhapsody In Blue at 100
Subject: RE: Rhapsody In Blue at 100
Thank you for your kind comment, keberoxu. I'm enjoying it too!

As Freddy said, Radio 3 played the 1924 jazz band version, a remarkably good recording considering its age. It's quite truncated and the tempos are pretty fast, as the acoustic recording had to fit on two sides of a shellac record. The clarinet at the beginning is positively chuckling. Radio 3 played a modern recording of the full work later that day, which I'll be listening to in a minute as I try to fix the shower-room tap :-(   But that ancient recording is a whole bunch of fun and well worth a listen.