2010-09-30 20:41:24.811226+02 by petronius 0 comments
Over on Lileks.com he has a strange video. It's a piano roll of "Rhapsody in Blue" recorded by Gershwin himself and replayed on a modern instrument that better reproduces the dynamics of the original performance. This is how Gershwin wanted it played, heedless, fast, jumpy, exhilirating. As Lileks says, its not so much a recording as a sceance.
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