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This thoroughly offbeat release arose as the result of a chance meeting in 2013 between comic actor Bill Murray and cellist Jan Vogler, and it has the kind of spontaneity that background might imply. Some will buy it on the strength of Murray's name, and you might sample sheer vaudevillian joy of his version of "It Ain't Necessarily So": it's worth the purchase price all by itself. Murray's Jeanie with Light Brown Hair...maybe not so much. But the attraction of the album is not the musical value of Murray's singing or Vogler's cello, but rather the variety of the program. Murray reads Walt Whitman and James Fenimore Cooper and Mark Twain, not to mention James Thurber, with classical chamber pieces as background, or solo. He's actually quite an effective reader, achieving a vernacular American tone without a hint of cornball. He sings. Vogler plays instrumental pieces. The Thurber is framed by Ravel's "Blues" movement from his Violin Sonata in G major, not so much because of a perceived similarity in attitude, but because the phrasing works in the organization of the piece. Henry Mancini's Moon River breaks off for almost 15 minutes of Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, far longer than any of the other literary excerpts on the album, and for no very good reason. This damages the balance of the program as a whole, but it fits the program's lively spirit. As you might expect from Murray, it's a great deal of fun.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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The Carnival Of The Animals, R.125 (Camille Saint-Saëns)
Jan Vogler, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS, Composer - Bill Murray, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Adam Abeshouse, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vanessa Perez, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Lucille Clifton, ComposerLyricist - Jeremy Kinney, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Walt Whitman, ComposerLyricist - Bill Murray, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Adam Abeshouse, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jeremy Kinney, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Suite For Cello Solo No. 1 In G Major, BWV 1007 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Jan Vogler, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Adam Abeshouse, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jeremy Kinney, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Piano Trio No. 1 In B Flat, Op. 99 D.898 (Franz Schubert)
Jan Vogler, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Franz Schubert, Composer - Bill Murray, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Adam Abeshouse, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vanessa Perez, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Mira Wang, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - James Fenimore Cooper, ComposerLyricist - Jeremy Kinney, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Porgy and Bess (George Gershwin)
George Gershwin, Composer - Ira Gershwin, Author - Dorothy Heyward, Author - Dubose Heyward, Author - Bill Murray, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jascha Heifetz, Contributor, Transcription - Adam Abeshouse, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vanessa Perez, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Mira Wang, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Kinney, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jan Vogler, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Astor Piazzolla, ComposerLyricist - Adam Abeshouse, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vanessa Perez, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Mira Wang, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Kinney, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jan Vogler, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - VAN MORRISON, ComposerLyricist - Bill Murray, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Adam Abeshouse, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vanessa Perez, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Mira Wang, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen Buck, Co-Arranger, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Kinney, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jan Vogler, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - H. Willis, ComposerLyricist - Johnny Mercer, Author - Henry Mancini, ComposerLyricist - Bill Murray, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Adam Abeshouse, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vanessa Perez, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Kinney, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jan Vogler, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Bill Murray, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen Collins Foster, ComposerLyricist - Adam Abeshouse, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vanessa Perez, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Mira Wang, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Kinney, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Sonata in G Major for Violin and Piano (Maurice Ravel)
Maurice Ravel, Composer, ComposerLyricist - Bill Murray, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Adam Abeshouse, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vanessa Perez, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Mira Wang, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Kinney, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - James Thurber, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc.
West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein)
Jan Vogler, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Author - Bill Murray, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Adam Abeshouse, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vanessa Perez, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Mira Wang, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen Buck, Arranger, Co-Arranger, Work Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Kinney, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jan Vogler, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Author - Bill Murray, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Adam Abeshouse, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vanessa Perez, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Mira Wang, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen Buck, Arranger, Co-Arranger, Work Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Kinney, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jan Vogler, Cello, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Leonard Bernstein, Composer - Stephen Sondheim, Author - Bill Murray, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Adam Abeshouse, Producer, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vanessa Perez, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Mira Wang, Violin, AssociatedPerformer - Stephen Buck, Arranger, Co-Arranger, Work Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Jeremy Kinney, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
This thoroughly offbeat release arose as the result of a chance meeting in 2013 between comic actor Bill Murray and cellist Jan Vogler, and it has the kind of spontaneity that background might imply. Some will buy it on the strength of Murray's name, and you might sample sheer vaudevillian joy of his version of "It Ain't Necessarily So": it's worth the purchase price all by itself. Murray's Jeanie with Light Brown Hair...maybe not so much. But the attraction of the album is not the musical value of Murray's singing or Vogler's cello, but rather the variety of the program. Murray reads Walt Whitman and James Fenimore Cooper and Mark Twain, not to mention James Thurber, with classical chamber pieces as background, or solo. He's actually quite an effective reader, achieving a vernacular American tone without a hint of cornball. He sings. Vogler plays instrumental pieces. The Thurber is framed by Ravel's "Blues" movement from his Violin Sonata in G major, not so much because of a perceived similarity in attitude, but because the phrasing works in the organization of the piece. Henry Mancini's Moon River breaks off for almost 15 minutes of Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, far longer than any of the other literary excerpts on the album, and for no very good reason. This damages the balance of the program as a whole, but it fits the program's lively spirit. As you might expect from Murray, it's a great deal of fun.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 01:04:55
- Main artists: Bill Murray Jan Vogler
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: UMC - Decca Gold
- Genre: Klassiek
© 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2017 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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