Wilbert Harrison - Let's Stick Together / Kansas City - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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This disc substantially duplicates the repertoire on an all-Copland program produced by DG with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. However, where DG included the Short Symphony, Naxos offers the Clarinet Concerto. While the Nashville Chamber Orchestra doesn't offer quite the tonal refinement and Polish of Orpheus, it basically plays just as well, and it's slightly weightier, gutsier, more rustic sonority arguably suits the music even better. In the famous rehearsal disc that accompanied Copland's own recording of the original chamber version of Appalachian Spring, he can be heard exhorting his players not to sentimentalize the music Inch... it's a little too much on the Massenet-side,Inch he tells them. Obviously Paul Gambill understands this point, for he offers interpretations ideally poised between warmth and simplicity, full of those clean and clear sonorities that Copland made his own.

The highly influential early R&B and rock n' roll singer Wilbert Harrison had a Billboard No. 1 record in 1959 with one of Hall of Fame songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's first collaborations, InchKansas City.Inch Featured here is that classic single backed with Harrison's own InchLet's Work TogetherInch from 1962, which later became a hit for Canned Heat in 1970 and was reworked as InchLet's Stick TogetherInch which became a hit for British pop crooner Bryan Ferry in 1976. Newly re-mastered.