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Re: Gershwin's Rhapsody letter (new)

Author: JKL
Date: 2015-10-10 22:51

I definitely prefer the 1924 version to the 1930 one! I wouldn´t call the 1930 version "more sophisticated". In a way the 1924 recording is more sophisticated because of its ambiguity: It is not only a Jazz player playing the music like Jazz players would do ist, but for me he plays it like a Jazz player imitating a Klezmer player. So the 1924 recording has an element of parody or irony or spoof which you have to understand and which I like very much, but which obviously was not suitable for commercial purposes - the mainstream of society wouldn´t understand this. So for me the 1930 version is commercially smoothed like the most later recordings.
I like very much the clarinettist of the 1924 recording plays the second run (from F to Bb) - as a glissando as well, which makes much sense to me. (and by the way - for my ears the clarinettist of the the 1930 recording starts the second run (from F) an octave lower than Gershwin wrote it, doesn´t he?)

JKL

Post Edited (2015-10-10 23:07)

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