It Ain’t Necessarily So: Legendary Classic and Jazz Studio Takes

Compilation by Heifetz

Released September 2006

Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    From the Canebrake, op. 5 no. 1
    Samuel Gardner
    1:35
  • 2
    Jamaican Rumba
    Arthur Benjamin arr. William Primrose
    1:38
  • 3
    Beau Soir
    Claude Debussy
    2:09
  • 4
    Pièce en forme de habanera
    Maurice Ravel
    2:39
  • 5
    Levee Dance op. 27 no. 2 (based on “Go down, Moses”)
    Clarence Cameron White
    3:07
  • 6
    Paraphrase on “Largo al factotum” from G. Rossini’s opera “Il barbiere di Siviglia”
    Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco
    5:22
  • 7
    Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
    Stephen Collins Foster
    2:58
  • 8
    A la valse
    Victor Herbert
    1:38
  • 9
    Humoresque in G-flat major, op. 101 no. 7
    Antonín Dvořák
    3:34
  • 10
    Gweedore Brae
    [traditional]
    3:12
  • 11
    Old Folks at Home
    Stephen Collins Foster
    3:20
  • 12
    Traditional: Deep River
    [traditional]
    2:24
  • 13
    Viennese · Wienerisch
    Leopold Godowsky
    3:47
  • 14
    White Christmas
    Irving Berlin
    3:22
  • 15
    Porgy and Bess: Summertime
    George Gershwin
    1:43
  • 16
    Porgy and Bess: A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
    George Gershwin
    1:50
  • 17
    Porgy and Bess: My Man’s Gone Now
    George Gershwin
    3:54
  • 18
    Porgy and Bess: It Ain’t Necessarily So
    George Gershwin
    2:32
  • 19
    Porgy and Bess: Tempo di Blues “There’s A Boat That’s Leavin’ Soon For New York”
    George Gershwin
    2:54
  • 20
    Porgy and Bess: Bess, You Is My Woman Now
    George Gershwin
    3:07
  • 21
    Three Preludes: I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
    George Gershwin
    1:32
  • 22
    Three Preludes: II. Andante con moto e poco rubato
    George Gershwin
    2:53
  • 23
    Three Preludes: III. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
    George Gershwin
    1:26
  • CD 2
  • 1
    An Outlandish Suite: No. 2. Florida Night Song
    Susan Dyer
    3:00
  • 2
    Golliwog’s Cakewalk
    Claude Debussy
    2:34
  • 3
    Clair de lune
    Claude Debussy
    3:44
  • 4
    Ao pé da fogueira
    Flausino Rodriques do Vale
    1:14
  • 5
    Huella, op. 49
    Julián Aguirre
    2:30
  • 6
    Prelude in C-sharp minor, op. 34 no. 10
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    2:01
  • 7
    Prelude in D-flat major, op. 34 no. 15
    Dmitri Shostakovich
    0:59
  • 8
    Waves at Play
    Edwin Grasse
    1:42
  • 9
    March, from Love for Three Oranges
    Sergei Prokofiev
    1:29
  • 10
    Masks, from Romeo and Juliet
    Sergei Prokofiev
    2:05
  • 11
    Hexapoda: 1. Gut-Bucket Gus
    Robert Russell Bennett
    2:00
  • 12
    Hexapoda: 2. Jane Shakes Her Hair
    Robert Russell Bennett
    1:05
  • 13
    Hexapoda: 3. Betty and Harold Close Their Eyes
    Robert Russell Bennett
    1:43
  • 14
    Hexapoda: 4. Jim Jives
    Robert Russell Bennett
    1:00
  • 15
    Hexapoda: 5. …Till Dawn Sunday
    Robert Russell Bennett
    1:51
  • 16
    The Ballad of Mack the Knife, from The Threepenny Opera
    Kurt Weill
    2:22
  • 17
    Souvenir d’un lieu cher, op. 42: No. 3. Melodie in E-flat
    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    3:49
  • 18
    Nocturne in E-flat, op. 55 no. 2
    Fryderyk Chopin
    3:56
  • 19
    Mélodie, from Orphée et Euridice
    Christoph Willibald Gluck
    2:54
  • 20
    Bird as prophet, from Waldszenen
    Robert Schumann
    2:35
  • 21
    Rimsky-Korsakov: Hymn to the Sun, from The Golden Cockerel (arr.Kreisler)
    Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
    3:07
  • 22
    Dance no. 4
    Alexander Krein
    1:36
  • 23
    Hungarian Dance no. 7 in A major
    Johannes Brahms
    2:03
  • 24
    The Swan
    Camille Saint‐Saëns
    2:39
  • 25
    Size Pictures, op. 30: No. 4. Hills
    Cecil Burleigh
    1:35
  • 26
    Small Concert Pieces, op. 21: No. 4. Moto perpetuo
    Cecil Burleigh
    1:17
  • 27
    Berceuse, from Jocelyn
    Benjamin Godard
    3:15
  • 28
    Where My Caravan Has Rested
    Hermann Löhr
    2:56
  • 29
    When You Make Love to Me (Don’t Make Believe)
    Jim Hoyl
    1:39

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