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Cole Porter On A Steinway, Vol. 1
Release Date:
12/06/2019
Label:
Steinway & Sons
Catalog #:
30116
Composer:
Cole Porter
Performer:
Jed Distler , Simon Mulligan , Adam Birnbaum
Number of Discs:
1
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Notes and Reviews
This release in the Steinway Standards series is the first of a collection of American Songbook sets that celebrates the immortal Cole Porter in arrangements for solo piano. Steinway artists Simon Mulligan, Adam Birnbaum and Jed Distler start our survey.
Album Credits:
Recorded 2014 – 2019 at Steinway Hall, New York City.
Producer: Jon Feidner
Engineer: Lauren Sclafani
Assistant Engineer: Melody Nieun Hwang
Production Assistant: Renée Oakford
Mixing and Mastering: Daniel Shores
Executive Producers: Eric Feidner, Jon Feidner
Art Direction: Jackie Fugere
Piano Technician: Lauren Sclafani
Piano: Steinway Model D #597590 (New York)
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Review:
Well, here’s a real winner!
Steinway & Sons’ piano recordings—especially the ones that they themselves produce and engineer at the new Steinway Hall performance and recording facility in New York City—are of reliably superb audio quality. That said, I hasten to point out that Steinway’s releases that were not recorded in Steinway Hall are often (but not always) just as good in terms of sound quality; they are merely “different.”
I think that the Steinway recordings made at the Shalin Liu performance hall in Rockport, Massachusetts are objectively as “good” as the Steinway Hall ones. Subjectively, I have a (slight) personal preference for the slightly more distant and bloom-y sound of Shalin Liu. If anyone prefers the slightly more in-focus Steinway Hall sound, I will not lose any sleep.
I also must point out that the sonic differences I am noting (and such is the case with many audio differences) are minor; they might not reveal themselves to casual listeners who only give a casual listen.
By this point, Steinway has released well over 100 CDs. Not all of them have totally won me over to their artistic standpoints (of course, such are matters of taste, and you are free to disagree). But… when the stars and planets line up as they do here… Wow!
This collection of solo-piano treatments of famous Cole Porter show tunes (by three different pianists, Adam Birnbaum, Jed Distler, and Simon Mulligan) presents, in spot-on high-resolution (24/96) sound, standout Cole Porter interpretations that range from the wistful and pensive to the liltingly bouncy. All delivered via sloshingly-full buckets of piano technique and always with a refined musical taste that might have made Cole Porter smile.
-- John Marks, The Tannhäuser Gate
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1.
Anything Goes: I get a kick out of you
Composer:
Cole Porter
Performer:
Jed Distler (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1934 USA
Date of Recording:
7/9/2014
Venue:
Steinway Hall, New York City
Length:
2 Minutes 58 Secs.
2.
Fifty Million Frenchmen: You do something to me
Composer:
Cole Porter
Performer:
Simon Mulligan (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Date of Recording:
1/12/2018
Venue:
Steinway Hall, New York City
Length:
4 Minutes 20 Secs.
3.
Jubilee: Just one of those things
Composer:
Cole Porter
Performer:
Adam Birnbaum (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1935 USA
Date of Recording:
4/24/2019
Venue:
Steinway Hall, New York City
Length:
4 Minutes 30 Secs.
4.
Mexican Hayride: I love you
Composer:
Cole Porter
Performer:
Adam Birnbaum (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1944 USA
Date of Recording:
12/12/2018
Venue:
Steinway Hall, New York City
Length:
3 Minutes 47 Secs.
5.
Rosalie: In the still of the night
Composer:
Cole Porter
Performer:
Jed Distler (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1937 USA
Date of Recording:
7/9/2014
Venue:
Steinway Hall, New York City
Length:
3 Minutes 06 Secs.
6.
Born to Dance: I've got you under my skin
Composer:
Cole Porter
Performer:
Jed Distler (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1936 USA
Date of Recording:
12/11/2015
Venue:
Steinway Hall, New York City
Length:
3 Minutes 34 Secs.
7.
Gay Divorcée: Night and Day
Composer:
Cole Porter
Performer:
Simon Mulligan (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1932 USA
Date of Recording:
9/16/2014
Venue:
Steinway Hall, New York City
Length:
5 Minutes 04 Secs.
8.
Paris: Let's Do It
Composer:
Cole Porter
Performer:
Jed Distler (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1928 USA
Date of Recording:
7/9/2014
Venue:
Steinway Hall, New York City
Length:
2 Minutes 54 Secs.
9.
Leave it to Me: Get Out of Town
Composer:
Cole Porter
Performer:
Simon Mulligan (Piano)
Written:
1938
Date of Recording:
4/21/2015
Venue:
Steinway Hall, New York City
Length:
4 Minutes 21 Secs.
10.
Gay Divorcée: After You
Composer:
Cole Porter
Performer:
Jed Distler (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1932 USA
Date of Recording:
12/11/2015
Venue:
Steinway Hall, New York City
Length:
2 Minutes 35 Secs.
11.
Born to Dance: Easy to Love
Composer:
Cole Porter
Performer:
Jed Distler (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1936 USA
Date of Recording:
8/28/2014
Venue:
Steinway Hall, New York City
Length:
2 Minutes 40 Secs.
12.
Seven Lively Arts: Ev'ry time we say goodbye
Composer:
Cole Porter
Performer:
Simon Mulligan (Piano)
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1944 USA
Date of Recording:
9/16/2014
Venue:
Steinway Hall, New York City
Length:
5 Minutes 21 Secs.
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