Composer: Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Frederick Loewe, Cole Albert Porter, David Raksin, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Joshua Sondheim
Performer: Jenny Lin
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Steinway & Sons
Catalogue: STNS30011
Release: 2012
Size: 200 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Berlin: The Jazz Singer (arr. D. Hyman)
01. Blue Skies
Gershwin: Girl Crazy (arr. E. Wild for piano)
02. Act I: I got rhythm
Loewe: My Fair Lady (arr. S. Malzew)
03. Ascot Gavotte
Rodgers: Love me Tonight (arr. A. Weissenberg)
04. Lover
Porter: Jubilee (arr. C. Walter)
05. Begin the Beguine
Sondheim: Sweeney Todd (arr. C. O’Riley)
06. Johanna
Rodgers: Carousel (arr. S. Hough for piano)
07. Carousel Waltz
Rodgers: The King and I (arr. S. Hough)
08. March of the Siamese Children
09. Rodgers: Blue Moon (arr. A. Previn)
Berlin: Top Hat (arr. D. Hyman)
10. Cheek to Cheek
Gershwin: Girl Crazy (arr. E. Wild)
11. Act I: Embraceable You
Raksin: Laura (arr. M.-A. Hamelin)
12. Meditation on Laura
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (arr. D. Saperton)
13. Act II: Bess, you is my woman now
Gershwin: The Man I Love (arr. E. Wild)
14. Lady, be Good!: Fascinating Rhythm
Porter: Kiss Me, Kate (arr. G. Anderson)
15. So in Love
Rodgers: The Sound of Music (arr. S. Hough for piano)
16. My Favorite Things
Rodgers: The King and I (arr. S. Hough)
17. Hello, young lovers
Arlen: 9:15 Revue (arr. S. Prutsman)
18. Get Happy
Jenny Lin’s latest release on the Steinway & Sons label is a spectacular collection of showtunes arranged by Greg Anderson, Marc-André Hamelin, Stephen Hough, Dick Hyman, Stefan Malzew, Christopher O’Riley, André Previn, Stephen Prutsman, David Saperton, Cy Walter, Alexis Weissenberg and Earl Wild.
Including new commissions and world premiere recordings, this is Steinway’s top priority release for 2012!
Jenny Lin’s previous release on the Steinway & Sons label, Silent Music, was chosen as one of the best albums of the year by the New York Times in 2011.
Get Happy includes brand-new arrangements by Marc-André Hamelin (David Raskin’s “Laura”), Stefan Malzew (“Eliza in Ascot” from My Fair Lady) and Greg Anderson (Cole Porter’s “So In Love”).
World premiere recordings include Christopher O’Riley’s gorgeous arrangement of “Johanna” from Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd and Alexis Weissenberg’s exquisite version of “Lover” from the Rodgers & Hart musical film, Love Me Tonight.
First release to include all four of Stephen Hough’s arrangements of the music of Rodgers & Hammerstein.
Bonus track for iTunes of Uri Caine’s arrangement of “Honeysuckle Rose by” Fats Waller.