Dave wrote: >Some years ago a friend of mine (Hamradio) sent me the Grace Castagnetta's >Concerto in f (piano solo) transcription. I had been (during many years) >expecting a *courageous* pianist able to cope with such work. Well, about >a week ago I found a Stradivari CD (1988) with Norman Krieger playing the >Castagnetta's transcription. I am very fan of Gershwin, but just since my 18 (10 years ago), and I didn't know that! Isn't there any recording of the "original" score of it? Why, is it so difficult? More than Prokofiev 3third? I want to buy the opera Porggy and Bess, maybe you can sugest me a recording. I know it from non-original versions, and just parts. I've got fan of this music hearing a transcription for guitar and haspychard, played - marvelously - by Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass, and it is a wonderfuul recording IMO. I didn't like it with Milles Davis. I heard just once the original version - plyed as opera - of the Summertime. My god! The melody is the simpliest as possible, but what a difference Gershwin's original arrange makes!!! A "Plus" that Oscar Peterson, Joe Pass, Milles Daves or any other I ever heard singing Summertime have reached. Best Regards, Renato Vinicius