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'''André George Previn''', (; born '''Andreas Ludwig Priwin'''; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019)<ref name="Moss"></ref><ref name=":0"></ref> was a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer. Previn won four [[Academy Awards]] for his film work and ten [[Grammy Award]]s for his recordings (and one more for his [[Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award|Lifetime Achievement]]).
==Recordings==
Previn's discography contains hundreds of recordings in film, jazz, classical music and contemporary classical music. Because of the huge number of recordings, the following lists are necessarily highly selective. A full discography (including LP/CD record codes) is available in Frédéric Döhl: ''[https://ift.tt/2IJLBYu André Previn. Musikalische Vielseitigkeit und ästhetische Erfahrung]'', Stuttgart 2012, pp. 295–319.
=== Film music ===
Most of the films which incorporate Previn's music are still available as videos/DVDs and/or as soundtrack records. Some of his soundtracks have been reissued in recent years, including those from ''[[Elmer Gantry (film)|Elmer Gantry]]'', ''[[The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (film)|Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]'' , ''[[Inside Daisy Clover]]'', and ''[[Dead Ringer (1964 film)|Dead Ringer]]''.
=== Jazz recordings===
Previn made dozens of jazz recordings as both a leader and sideman, primarily during two periods of his career: from 1945 to 1967, and then again from 1989 to 2001, with just a handful of recordings in between and afterward (while he focused his career on conducting/recording classical music, and later on composing contemporary art music). Previn also did several crossover recordings with classical singers like [[Eileen Farrell]], [[Leontyne Price]] or [[Kiri Te Kanawa]], too, as well as several ''[[Easy-Listening]]'' records with piano and orchestra in the 1960s (beginning with ''Like Young. Secret Songs for Young Lovers'', 1959. with David Rose and His Orchestra).
Like [[Oscar Peterson]], whom Previn admired a great deal,<ref>Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musikalische Vielseitigkeit und ästhetische Erfahrung, Stuttgart 2012, p. 127.</ref> and [[Bill Evans]], Previn worked a lot as a trio pianist (usually with bass and drums). Following his performance on [[Shelly Manne]]'s recording ''[[My Fair Lady (Shelly Manne album)|Modern Jazz Performances of Songs from My Fair Lady]]'' in 1956, Previn released several albums of jazz interpretations of songs from [[broadway musical]]s as well as several solo piano recordings focussed on the songbooks of popular composers (''[[André Previn Plays Songs by Vernon Duke]]'', 1958; ''[[André Previn Plays Songs by Harold Arlen]]'', 1960; ''Ballads. Solo Jazz Standards'', 1996; ''Alone: Ballads for Solo Piano'', 2007), the late recording of songs by [[Harold Arlen]] with singer [[Sylvia McNair]] and bass player [[David Finck]] (''Come Rain or Shine. The Harold Arlen Songbook'', 1996), and his TV shows with Oscar Peterson (1974) which [[Marlon Brando]] simply called "one of the greatest hours I ever saw on television"<ref>As quoted in Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musikalische Vielseitigkeit und ästhetische Erfahrung, Stuttgart 2012, p. 16.</ref> and [[Ella Fitzgerald]] (1979)<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> respectively.
Jazz critic and historian [[Ted Gioia]] wrote in his book about [[West Coast jazz]], the scene to which Previn belonged:<blockquote>[His] projects varied greatly in terms of quality and jazz content, but at his best Previn could be a persuasive, moving jazz musician. [...] Despite his deep roots in symphonic music, Previn largely steered clear of [[Third Stream]] classicism in his jazz work, aiming more at an earthy, hard-swinging piano style at times reminiscent of [[Horace Silver]]. Long before his eventual retreat from his jazz work, Previn had become something of a popularizer of jazz rather than a serious practitioner of the music. At his best, however, his music reflected a strong indigenous feel for the jazz idiom.<ref>Ted Gioia, West Coast Jazz. Modern Jazz in California, 1945–1960, Berkeley 1998, p. 278 as quoted in Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musikalische Vielseitigkeit und ästhetische Erfahrung, Stuttgart 2012, p. 140.</ref></blockquote>
[[Dizzy Gillespie]] stated,<blockquote>He has the flow, you know, which a lot of guys don't have and won't ever get. Yeah. I heard him play and I knew. A lot of guys, they have the technique, the harmonic sense. They've got the perfect coordination. And, yeah, all that's necessary. But you need something more, you know? Even if you only make an oooooooo, like that, you got to have the flow.<ref>Martin Bookspan/Ross Yockey, André Previn. A Biography, London 1981, S. 124 as quoted in Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musikalische Vielseitigkeit und ästhetische Erfahrung, Stuttgart 2012, pp. 139–140.</ref></blockquote>
====Jazz recordings as leader/co-leader====
* ''[[André Previn Plays Harry Warren]]'' ([[RCA Victor]], 1952)
* ''[[Collaboration (Shorty Rogers and André Previn album)|Collaboration]]'' ([[RCA Victor]], 1955) – with [[Shorty Rogers]]<ref></ref>
* ''[[Let's Get Away from It All (André Previn album)|Let's Get Away from It All]]'' (Decca, 1955)
* ''[[Double Play!]]'' ([[Contemporary Records|Contemporary]], 1957) with [[Russ Freeman (pianist)|Russ Freeman]]<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[Pal Joey (André Previn album)|Pal Joey]]'' (Contemporary, 1957)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[Gigi (André Previn album)|Gigi]]'' (Contemporary, 1958)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[André Previn Plays Songs by Vernon Duke]]'' (Contemporary, 1958)
* ''[[Secret Songs For Young Lovers]]'' (MGM Records, 1958, with [[David Rose (songwriter)|David Rose]])
* ''[[King Size! (André Previn album)|King Size!]]'' (Contemporary, 1959)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[André Previn Plays Songs by Jerome Kern]]'' (Contemporary, 1959)
* ''[[West Side Story (André Previn album)|West Side Story]]'' (Contemporary, 1959)
* ''[[Like Blue]]'' (MGM Records, 1960)
* [[The Subterraneans#Musical score and soundtrack|''The Subterraneans'' (Soundtrack)]] ([[MGM Records|MGM]], 1960)
* ''[[Like Previn!]]'' (Contemporary, 1960)
* ''[[André Previn Plays Songs by Harold Arlen]]'' (Contemporary, 1960)
* ''[[A Touch of Elegance]]'' (Columbia, 1960)
* ''[[Like Love]]'' (Columbia, 1960)
* ''[[Thinking of You (André Previn album)|Thinking of You]]'' (Columbia, 1961)
* ''[[The Previn Scene]]'' (MGM Records, 1961)
* ''[[Duet (Doris Day and André Previn album)|Duet]]'' (Columbia, 1962, with [[Doris Day]])<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[André Previn and J. J. Johnson|André Previn and J. J. Johnson Play Kurt Weill's Mack The Knife & Bilbao-Song]]'' (Columbia, 1962, with [[J.J. Johnson]])<ref> User Reviews|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[4 to Go!]]'' (Columbia, 1963) with [[Herb Ellis]], [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]] and [[Shelly Manne]]
* ''[[But Beautiful (André Previn album)|But Beautiful]]'' (Decca, 1963)
* ''[[Soft and Swinging the Music of Jimmy McHugh]]'' (Columbia, 1964)
* ''[[Sound Stage!]]'' (Columbia, 1964)
* ''[[Love Walked In (André Previn album)|Love Walked In]]'' (RCA Camden, 1964)
* ''[[The Popular Previn]]'' (Columbia, 1965)
* ''[[André Previn Plays Music of the Young Hollywood Composers]]'' (RCA Victor, 1965)
* ''[[Previn with Voices]]'' (RCA Victor, 1966)
* ''[[All Alone (André Previn album)|All Alone]]'' (RCA Victor, 1967)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[Right As the Rain]]'' (RCA Victor, 1967, with [[Leontyne Price]])
* ''[[The Easy Winners (André Previn and Itzhak Perlman album)|The Easy Winners]]'' (Angel Records, 1975, with [[Itzhak Perlman]])
* ''[[A Different Kind of Blues]]'' (EMI/Angel, 1980, with Itzhak Perlman)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[It's a Breeze]]'' (EMI/Angel, 1981, with Itzhak Perlman)
* ''[[Nice Work If You Can Get It (album)|Nice Work if You Can Get It]]'' (1983, with Ella Fitzgerald and [[Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen]])
* ''[[After Hours (André Previn album)|After Hours]]'' ([[Telarc International Corporation|Telarc]], 1989, with [[Joe Pass]] and [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]])<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[Uptown (André Previn album)|Uptown]]'' (Telarc, 1990, with [[Mundell Lowe]] and Ray Brown)
* ''[[Old Friends (André Previn album)|Old Friends]]'' (Telarc, 1992, with Mundell Lowe and Ray Brown)
* ''[[Kiri Sidetracks: The Jazz Album]]'' (1992, with [[Kiri Te Kanawa]], Mundell Lowe and Ray Brown)
* ''[[What Headphones?]]'' (Angel, 1993)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[Sure Thing: The Jerome Kern Songbook]]'' (1994, with [[Sylvia McNair]] and [[David Finck]])<ref></ref>
* ''[[André Previn and Friends Play Show Boat]]'' ([[Deutsche Grammophon]], 1995, with Mundell Lowe, Ray Brown and [[Grady Tate]])<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[Ballads: Solo Jazz Standards]]'' ([[Angel Records|Angel]], 1996)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[Come Rain or Shine: The Harold Arlen Songbook]]'' (1996, with Sylvia McNair and David Finck)<ref></ref>
* ''[[Jazz at the Musikverein]]'' ([[Verve Records|Verve]], 1997, with Mundell Lowe and Ray Brown)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[We Got Rhythm: A Gershwin Songbook]]'' (Deutsche Grammophon, 1998, with David Finck)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[We Got It Good and That Ain't Bad: An Ellington Songbook]]'' (Deutsche Grammophon, 1999, with David Finck)<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
* ''[[Live at the Jazz Standard (André Previn album)|Live at the Jazz Standard]]'' ([[Decca Records|Decca]], 2001, with David Finck)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[Alone: Ballads for Solo Piano]]'' (Decca, 2007)<ref></ref>
====Jazz recordings as sideman/group member====
'''With [[Buddy Bregman]]'''
*''[[Swinging Kicks]]'' (Verve, 1957)<ref> Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
'''With [[Benny Carter]]'''
*''[[Jazz Giant (Benny Carter album)|Jazz Giant]]'' (Contemporary, 1958)<ref> Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
'''With [[Michael Feinstein]]'''
*''[[Change of Heart: The Songs of Andre Previn]]'' (Telarc, 2013)
'''With [[Helen Humes]]'''
*''Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness if I Do'' (Contemporary, 1959)
*''Songs I Like to Sing!'' (Contemporary, 1960)
'''With [[Barney Kessel]]'''
*''[[Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By]]'' (Contemporary, 1956)<ref> Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
*''[[Carmen (Barney Kessel album)|Carmen]]'' (Contemporary, 1959)<ref> Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
'''With [[Shelly Manne]]'''
* ''[[Shelly Manne & His Friends]]'' (Contemporary, 1956)<ref> Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[My Fair Lady (Shelly Manne album)|My Fair Lady]]'' (Contemporary, 1956)<ref> Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
*''[[Li'l Abner (Shelly Manne album)|Li'l Abner]]'' (Contemporary, 1957)<ref></ref>
* ''[[Bells Are Ringing (Shelly Manne album)|Bells Are Ringing]]'' (Contemporary, 1959)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
'''With The Mitchells: [[Red Mitchell]], [[Whitey Mitchell]] and [[Blue Mitchell]]'''
*''[[Get Those Elephants Out'a Here]]'' (MetroJazz, 1958) <ref></ref>
'''With [[Spud Murphy|Lyle Murphy]]'''
*''[[12-Tone Compositions and Arrangements by Lyle Murphy]]'' (Contemporary, 1955)
'''With [[Pete Rugolo]]'''
*''[[An Adventure in Sound: Reeds in Hi-Fi]]'' (Mercury, 1956 [1958])<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
*''[[An Adventure in Sound: Brass in Hi-Fi]]'' (Mercury 1956 [1958])
*''[[Percussion at Work]]'' (EmArcy, 1957)
=== Classical music (as conductor or pianist selection) ===
==== Chamber music / solo piano music ====
As in Jazz, Previn, the classical pianist, worked most of the time as a trio pianist (with violin and cello) in classical chamber music. Accordingly, most of his recordings as pianist are in this genre.
* [[Samuel Barber]]: ''Four Excursions, [[Paul Hindemith]]: Piano Sonata No. 3, [[Frank Martin (composer)|Frank Martin]]: Prelude No. 7'' (1961)
* [[Gabriel Fauré]]: ''Piano Trio in D minor op. 120, [[Felix Mendelssohn]]: Piano Trio in D minor op. 49'' (1964, with Nathan Roth and Joseph Schuster)
* [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]]: ''Music for Two Pianos. Suite Nr. 1 op. 5, Suite Nr. 2 op. 17, Symphonic Dances op. 45'' (1974, with [[Vladimir Ashkenazy]])
* Maurice Ravel: ''Piano Trio in A minor, Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor op. 67'' (1974, with Kim Young Uck and Ralph Kirshbaum)
* [[Claude Debussy]]: ''Piano Trio in G major, [[Maurice Ravel]]: Piano Trio in A minor'' (1995, with Julie Rosenfeld and Gary Hoffmann)
*'[[Ludwig van Beethoven]]: ''Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat major op. 97, Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio in B major op. 8'' (1995, with [[Viktoria Mullova]] and [[Heinrich Schiff]])
* ''American Scenes. André Previn: Sonata for Violin and Piano "Vineyard", [[George Gershwin]]: Three Preludes, [[Aaron Copland]]: Sonata for Violin and Piano, Nocturne, Samuel Barber: Canzone (Elegy) op. 38a'' (1998, with [[Gil Shaham]])
==== Orchestral music / concertos / ballets ====
Previn's recording repertoire as a conductor is focused on the standards of classical and romantic music, excepting opera in general, favoring the symphonic music of [[Hector Berlioz]], [[Johannes Brahms]] and [[Richard Strauss]] and with a special emphasis on violin and piano concertos and ballets. Just a few of Previn's recordings deal with music before [[Joseph Haydn]] and [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] (both favourites of Previn's programmes) or contemporary avant-garde art music based on [[atonality]], [[minimalism]], [[serialism]], [[stochastic music]] etc. Instead, in [[20th-century classical music|20th-century music]] Previn's repertoire highlights specific composers of late romanticism and modernism like [[Samuel Barber]], [[Benjamin Britten]], [[George Gershwin]], [[Erich Wolfgang Korngold]], [[Sergei Prokofiev]], [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]], [[Maurice Ravel]], [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], [[Richard Strauss]], [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]], [[Harold Shapero]] and [[William Walton]].
Previn recorded mostly for [[EMI]], [[Telarc]] and [[Deutsche Grammophon]].
=== Contemporary classical music (recordings of Previn's own compositions selection) ===
* ''Guitar Concerto'' (1972, with [[John Williams (guitarist)|John Williams]] and the [[London Symphony Orchestra]])
* ''[[Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (play)|Every Good Boy Deserves Favour]]'' (1978, with the London Symphony Orchestra)<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
* ''Piano Concerto'' and ''Guitar Concerto'' (1990, with [[Vladimir Ashkenazy]], Eduardo Fernandez and the [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]])
* ''Honey and Rue'' (1995, with [[Kathleen Battle]] and the [[Orchestra of St. Luke's]])
* ''"From Ordinary Things": Sonata for Cello and Piano; Four Songs for Soprano, Cello and Piano; Two Remembrances for Soprano, Alto Flute and Piano; Vocalise for Soprano, Cello and Piano'' (1997, with [[Sylvia McNair]], [[Yo-Yo Ma]] and [[Sandra Church]])
* ''Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon'' (1997, with Cynthia Koledo de Almeida and Nancy Goeres)
* ''"Music of André Previn": Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon, Peaches for Flute and Piano, Triolet for Brass, Variations on a Theme by Haydn for Piano, A Wedding Waltz for Two Oboes and Piano'' (1998, with the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble)
* ''"American Scenes": Sonata for Violin and Piano "Vineyard"'' (1998, with Gil Shaham)
* ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (opera)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' (1998; with [[Renée Fleming]], [[Elizabeth Futral]], [[Rodney Gilfry]], [[Anthony Dean Griffey]], San Francisco Opera Orchestra)<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
* ''"Diversions – Songs": Diversions; Sallie Chisum Remembers Billy the Kid; Vocalise; The Giraffes Go to Hamburg; Three Dickinson Songs'' (2001, with [[Renée Fleming]], [[Barbara Bonney]], Moray Welsh, [[Vienna Philharmonic]], [[London Symphony Orchestra]])
* ''Tango Song and Dance'' (2003, [[Anne-Sophie Mutter]])
* ''Violin Concerto "Anne-Sophie"'' (2003, with Anne-Sophie Mutter and the [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]])
* ''Double Concerto for Violin, Contrabass and Orchestra; Piano Concerto; Violin Concerto "Anne-Sophie"; Three Dickinson Songs; Diversions; "I Can Smell The Sea Air" from A Streetcar Named Desire'' (2009, with Renée Fleming, Anne-Sophie Mutter, [[Vladimir Ashkenazy]], Roman Patkolo, [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]], London Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, San Francisco Opera Orchestra)
* ''[[Brief Encounter (opera)|Brief Encounter]]'' (2011, with Elizabeth Futral, Nathan Gunn, Kim Josephson, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Patrick Summers)<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==References==
==Recordings==
Previn's discography contains hundreds of recordings in film, jazz, classical music and contemporary classical music. Because of the huge number of recordings, the following lists are necessarily highly selective. A full discography (including LP/CD record codes) is available in Frédéric Döhl: ''[https://ift.tt/2IJLBYu André Previn. Musikalische Vielseitigkeit und ästhetische Erfahrung]'', Stuttgart 2012, pp. 295–319.
=== Film music ===
Most of the films which incorporate Previn's music are still available as videos/DVDs and/or as soundtrack records. Some of his soundtracks have been reissued in recent years, including those from ''[[Elmer Gantry (film)|Elmer Gantry]]'', ''[[The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (film)|Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]'' , ''[[Inside Daisy Clover]]'', and ''[[Dead Ringer (1964 film)|Dead Ringer]]''.
=== Jazz recordings===
Previn made dozens of jazz recordings as both a leader and sideman, primarily during two periods of his career: from 1945 to 1967, and then again from 1989 to 2001, with just a handful of recordings in between and afterward (while he focused his career on conducting/recording classical music, and later on composing contemporary art music). Previn also did several crossover recordings with classical singers like [[Eileen Farrell]], [[Leontyne Price]] or [[Kiri Te Kanawa]], too, as well as several ''[[Easy-Listening]]'' records with piano and orchestra in the 1960s (beginning with ''Like Young. Secret Songs for Young Lovers'', 1959. with David Rose and His Orchestra).
Like [[Oscar Peterson]], whom Previn admired a great deal,<ref>Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musikalische Vielseitigkeit und ästhetische Erfahrung, Stuttgart 2012, p. 127.</ref> and [[Bill Evans]], Previn worked a lot as a trio pianist (usually with bass and drums). Following his performance on [[Shelly Manne]]'s recording ''[[My Fair Lady (Shelly Manne album)|Modern Jazz Performances of Songs from My Fair Lady]]'' in 1956, Previn released several albums of jazz interpretations of songs from [[broadway musical]]s as well as several solo piano recordings focussed on the songbooks of popular composers (''[[André Previn Plays Songs by Vernon Duke]]'', 1958; ''[[André Previn Plays Songs by Harold Arlen]]'', 1960; ''Ballads. Solo Jazz Standards'', 1996; ''Alone: Ballads for Solo Piano'', 2007), the late recording of songs by [[Harold Arlen]] with singer [[Sylvia McNair]] and bass player [[David Finck]] (''Come Rain or Shine. The Harold Arlen Songbook'', 1996), and his TV shows with Oscar Peterson (1974) which [[Marlon Brando]] simply called "one of the greatest hours I ever saw on television"<ref>As quoted in Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musikalische Vielseitigkeit und ästhetische Erfahrung, Stuttgart 2012, p. 16.</ref> and [[Ella Fitzgerald]] (1979)<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> respectively.
Jazz critic and historian [[Ted Gioia]] wrote in his book about [[West Coast jazz]], the scene to which Previn belonged:<blockquote>[His] projects varied greatly in terms of quality and jazz content, but at his best Previn could be a persuasive, moving jazz musician. [...] Despite his deep roots in symphonic music, Previn largely steered clear of [[Third Stream]] classicism in his jazz work, aiming more at an earthy, hard-swinging piano style at times reminiscent of [[Horace Silver]]. Long before his eventual retreat from his jazz work, Previn had become something of a popularizer of jazz rather than a serious practitioner of the music. At his best, however, his music reflected a strong indigenous feel for the jazz idiom.<ref>Ted Gioia, West Coast Jazz. Modern Jazz in California, 1945–1960, Berkeley 1998, p. 278 as quoted in Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musikalische Vielseitigkeit und ästhetische Erfahrung, Stuttgart 2012, p. 140.</ref></blockquote>
[[Dizzy Gillespie]] stated,<blockquote>He has the flow, you know, which a lot of guys don't have and won't ever get. Yeah. I heard him play and I knew. A lot of guys, they have the technique, the harmonic sense. They've got the perfect coordination. And, yeah, all that's necessary. But you need something more, you know? Even if you only make an oooooooo, like that, you got to have the flow.<ref>Martin Bookspan/Ross Yockey, André Previn. A Biography, London 1981, S. 124 as quoted in Frédéric Döhl: André Previn. Musikalische Vielseitigkeit und ästhetische Erfahrung, Stuttgart 2012, pp. 139–140.</ref></blockquote>
====Jazz recordings as leader/co-leader====
* ''[[André Previn Plays Harry Warren]]'' ([[RCA Victor]], 1952)
* ''[[Collaboration (Shorty Rogers and André Previn album)|Collaboration]]'' ([[RCA Victor]], 1955) – with [[Shorty Rogers]]<ref></ref>
* ''[[Let's Get Away from It All (André Previn album)|Let's Get Away from It All]]'' (Decca, 1955)
* ''[[Double Play!]]'' ([[Contemporary Records|Contemporary]], 1957) with [[Russ Freeman (pianist)|Russ Freeman]]<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[Pal Joey (André Previn album)|Pal Joey]]'' (Contemporary, 1957)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[Gigi (André Previn album)|Gigi]]'' (Contemporary, 1958)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[André Previn Plays Songs by Vernon Duke]]'' (Contemporary, 1958)
* ''[[Secret Songs For Young Lovers]]'' (MGM Records, 1958, with [[David Rose (songwriter)|David Rose]])
* ''[[King Size! (André Previn album)|King Size!]]'' (Contemporary, 1959)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[André Previn Plays Songs by Jerome Kern]]'' (Contemporary, 1959)
* ''[[West Side Story (André Previn album)|West Side Story]]'' (Contemporary, 1959)
* ''[[Like Blue]]'' (MGM Records, 1960)
* [[The Subterraneans#Musical score and soundtrack|''The Subterraneans'' (Soundtrack)]] ([[MGM Records|MGM]], 1960)
* ''[[Like Previn!]]'' (Contemporary, 1960)
* ''[[André Previn Plays Songs by Harold Arlen]]'' (Contemporary, 1960)
* ''[[A Touch of Elegance]]'' (Columbia, 1960)
* ''[[Like Love]]'' (Columbia, 1960)
* ''[[Thinking of You (André Previn album)|Thinking of You]]'' (Columbia, 1961)
* ''[[The Previn Scene]]'' (MGM Records, 1961)
* ''[[Duet (Doris Day and André Previn album)|Duet]]'' (Columbia, 1962, with [[Doris Day]])<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[André Previn and J. J. Johnson|André Previn and J. J. Johnson Play Kurt Weill's Mack The Knife & Bilbao-Song]]'' (Columbia, 1962, with [[J.J. Johnson]])<ref> User Reviews|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[4 to Go!]]'' (Columbia, 1963) with [[Herb Ellis]], [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]] and [[Shelly Manne]]
* ''[[But Beautiful (André Previn album)|But Beautiful]]'' (Decca, 1963)
* ''[[Soft and Swinging the Music of Jimmy McHugh]]'' (Columbia, 1964)
* ''[[Sound Stage!]]'' (Columbia, 1964)
* ''[[Love Walked In (André Previn album)|Love Walked In]]'' (RCA Camden, 1964)
* ''[[The Popular Previn]]'' (Columbia, 1965)
* ''[[André Previn Plays Music of the Young Hollywood Composers]]'' (RCA Victor, 1965)
* ''[[Previn with Voices]]'' (RCA Victor, 1966)
* ''[[All Alone (André Previn album)|All Alone]]'' (RCA Victor, 1967)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[Right As the Rain]]'' (RCA Victor, 1967, with [[Leontyne Price]])
* ''[[The Easy Winners (André Previn and Itzhak Perlman album)|The Easy Winners]]'' (Angel Records, 1975, with [[Itzhak Perlman]])
* ''[[A Different Kind of Blues]]'' (EMI/Angel, 1980, with Itzhak Perlman)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[It's a Breeze]]'' (EMI/Angel, 1981, with Itzhak Perlman)
* ''[[Nice Work If You Can Get It (album)|Nice Work if You Can Get It]]'' (1983, with Ella Fitzgerald and [[Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen]])
* ''[[After Hours (André Previn album)|After Hours]]'' ([[Telarc International Corporation|Telarc]], 1989, with [[Joe Pass]] and [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]])<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[Uptown (André Previn album)|Uptown]]'' (Telarc, 1990, with [[Mundell Lowe]] and Ray Brown)
* ''[[Old Friends (André Previn album)|Old Friends]]'' (Telarc, 1992, with Mundell Lowe and Ray Brown)
* ''[[Kiri Sidetracks: The Jazz Album]]'' (1992, with [[Kiri Te Kanawa]], Mundell Lowe and Ray Brown)
* ''[[What Headphones?]]'' (Angel, 1993)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[Sure Thing: The Jerome Kern Songbook]]'' (1994, with [[Sylvia McNair]] and [[David Finck]])<ref></ref>
* ''[[André Previn and Friends Play Show Boat]]'' ([[Deutsche Grammophon]], 1995, with Mundell Lowe, Ray Brown and [[Grady Tate]])<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[Ballads: Solo Jazz Standards]]'' ([[Angel Records|Angel]], 1996)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[Come Rain or Shine: The Harold Arlen Songbook]]'' (1996, with Sylvia McNair and David Finck)<ref></ref>
* ''[[Jazz at the Musikverein]]'' ([[Verve Records|Verve]], 1997, with Mundell Lowe and Ray Brown)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[We Got Rhythm: A Gershwin Songbook]]'' (Deutsche Grammophon, 1998, with David Finck)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[We Got It Good and That Ain't Bad: An Ellington Songbook]]'' (Deutsche Grammophon, 1999, with David Finck)<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
* ''[[Live at the Jazz Standard (André Previn album)|Live at the Jazz Standard]]'' ([[Decca Records|Decca]], 2001, with David Finck)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[Alone: Ballads for Solo Piano]]'' (Decca, 2007)<ref></ref>
====Jazz recordings as sideman/group member====
'''With [[Buddy Bregman]]'''
*''[[Swinging Kicks]]'' (Verve, 1957)<ref> Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
'''With [[Benny Carter]]'''
*''[[Jazz Giant (Benny Carter album)|Jazz Giant]]'' (Contemporary, 1958)<ref> Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
'''With [[Michael Feinstein]]'''
*''[[Change of Heart: The Songs of Andre Previn]]'' (Telarc, 2013)
'''With [[Helen Humes]]'''
*''Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness if I Do'' (Contemporary, 1959)
*''Songs I Like to Sing!'' (Contemporary, 1960)
'''With [[Barney Kessel]]'''
*''[[Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By]]'' (Contemporary, 1956)<ref> Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
*''[[Carmen (Barney Kessel album)|Carmen]]'' (Contemporary, 1959)<ref> Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
'''With [[Shelly Manne]]'''
* ''[[Shelly Manne & His Friends]]'' (Contemporary, 1956)<ref> Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
* ''[[My Fair Lady (Shelly Manne album)|My Fair Lady]]'' (Contemporary, 1956)<ref> Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
*''[[Li'l Abner (Shelly Manne album)|Li'l Abner]]'' (Contemporary, 1957)<ref></ref>
* ''[[Bells Are Ringing (Shelly Manne album)|Bells Are Ringing]]'' (Contemporary, 1959)<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
'''With The Mitchells: [[Red Mitchell]], [[Whitey Mitchell]] and [[Blue Mitchell]]'''
*''[[Get Those Elephants Out'a Here]]'' (MetroJazz, 1958) <ref></ref>
'''With [[Spud Murphy|Lyle Murphy]]'''
*''[[12-Tone Compositions and Arrangements by Lyle Murphy]]'' (Contemporary, 1955)
'''With [[Pete Rugolo]]'''
*''[[An Adventure in Sound: Reeds in Hi-Fi]]'' (Mercury, 1956 [1958])<ref> Songs, Reviews, Credits|website=AllMusic|language=en-us|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
*''[[An Adventure in Sound: Brass in Hi-Fi]]'' (Mercury 1956 [1958])
*''[[Percussion at Work]]'' (EmArcy, 1957)
=== Classical music (as conductor or pianist selection) ===
==== Chamber music / solo piano music ====
As in Jazz, Previn, the classical pianist, worked most of the time as a trio pianist (with violin and cello) in classical chamber music. Accordingly, most of his recordings as pianist are in this genre.
* [[Samuel Barber]]: ''Four Excursions, [[Paul Hindemith]]: Piano Sonata No. 3, [[Frank Martin (composer)|Frank Martin]]: Prelude No. 7'' (1961)
* [[Gabriel Fauré]]: ''Piano Trio in D minor op. 120, [[Felix Mendelssohn]]: Piano Trio in D minor op. 49'' (1964, with Nathan Roth and Joseph Schuster)
* [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]]: ''Music for Two Pianos. Suite Nr. 1 op. 5, Suite Nr. 2 op. 17, Symphonic Dances op. 45'' (1974, with [[Vladimir Ashkenazy]])
* Maurice Ravel: ''Piano Trio in A minor, Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor op. 67'' (1974, with Kim Young Uck and Ralph Kirshbaum)
* [[Claude Debussy]]: ''Piano Trio in G major, [[Maurice Ravel]]: Piano Trio in A minor'' (1995, with Julie Rosenfeld and Gary Hoffmann)
*'[[Ludwig van Beethoven]]: ''Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat major op. 97, Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio in B major op. 8'' (1995, with [[Viktoria Mullova]] and [[Heinrich Schiff]])
* ''American Scenes. André Previn: Sonata for Violin and Piano "Vineyard", [[George Gershwin]]: Three Preludes, [[Aaron Copland]]: Sonata for Violin and Piano, Nocturne, Samuel Barber: Canzone (Elegy) op. 38a'' (1998, with [[Gil Shaham]])
==== Orchestral music / concertos / ballets ====
Previn's recording repertoire as a conductor is focused on the standards of classical and romantic music, excepting opera in general, favoring the symphonic music of [[Hector Berlioz]], [[Johannes Brahms]] and [[Richard Strauss]] and with a special emphasis on violin and piano concertos and ballets. Just a few of Previn's recordings deal with music before [[Joseph Haydn]] and [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] (both favourites of Previn's programmes) or contemporary avant-garde art music based on [[atonality]], [[minimalism]], [[serialism]], [[stochastic music]] etc. Instead, in [[20th-century classical music|20th-century music]] Previn's repertoire highlights specific composers of late romanticism and modernism like [[Samuel Barber]], [[Benjamin Britten]], [[George Gershwin]], [[Erich Wolfgang Korngold]], [[Sergei Prokofiev]], [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]], [[Maurice Ravel]], [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], [[Richard Strauss]], [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]], [[Harold Shapero]] and [[William Walton]].
Previn recorded mostly for [[EMI]], [[Telarc]] and [[Deutsche Grammophon]].
=== Contemporary classical music (recordings of Previn's own compositions selection) ===
* ''Guitar Concerto'' (1972, with [[John Williams (guitarist)|John Williams]] and the [[London Symphony Orchestra]])
* ''[[Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (play)|Every Good Boy Deserves Favour]]'' (1978, with the London Symphony Orchestra)<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
* ''Piano Concerto'' and ''Guitar Concerto'' (1990, with [[Vladimir Ashkenazy]], Eduardo Fernandez and the [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]])
* ''Honey and Rue'' (1995, with [[Kathleen Battle]] and the [[Orchestra of St. Luke's]])
* ''"From Ordinary Things": Sonata for Cello and Piano; Four Songs for Soprano, Cello and Piano; Two Remembrances for Soprano, Alto Flute and Piano; Vocalise for Soprano, Cello and Piano'' (1997, with [[Sylvia McNair]], [[Yo-Yo Ma]] and [[Sandra Church]])
* ''Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon'' (1997, with Cynthia Koledo de Almeida and Nancy Goeres)
* ''"Music of André Previn": Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon, Peaches for Flute and Piano, Triolet for Brass, Variations on a Theme by Haydn for Piano, A Wedding Waltz for Two Oboes and Piano'' (1998, with the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble)
* ''"American Scenes": Sonata for Violin and Piano "Vineyard"'' (1998, with Gil Shaham)
* ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (opera)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' (1998; with [[Renée Fleming]], [[Elizabeth Futral]], [[Rodney Gilfry]], [[Anthony Dean Griffey]], San Francisco Opera Orchestra)<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
* ''"Diversions – Songs": Diversions; Sallie Chisum Remembers Billy the Kid; Vocalise; The Giraffes Go to Hamburg; Three Dickinson Songs'' (2001, with [[Renée Fleming]], [[Barbara Bonney]], Moray Welsh, [[Vienna Philharmonic]], [[London Symphony Orchestra]])
* ''Tango Song and Dance'' (2003, [[Anne-Sophie Mutter]])
* ''Violin Concerto "Anne-Sophie"'' (2003, with Anne-Sophie Mutter and the [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]])
* ''Double Concerto for Violin, Contrabass and Orchestra; Piano Concerto; Violin Concerto "Anne-Sophie"; Three Dickinson Songs; Diversions; "I Can Smell The Sea Air" from A Streetcar Named Desire'' (2009, with Renée Fleming, Anne-Sophie Mutter, [[Vladimir Ashkenazy]], Roman Patkolo, [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]], London Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, San Francisco Opera Orchestra)
* ''[[Brief Encounter (opera)|Brief Encounter]]'' (2011, with Elizabeth Futral, Nathan Gunn, Kim Josephson, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra, Patrick Summers)<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
==References==
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