Rhapsody In Blue & An American In Paris Gershwin/Leonard Bernstein SKU: MS6091 Barcode: 4260019714510 34.00 £34.00 Genre: Classical Label: Speakers Corner Released Date: 30th January 2014 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info This fast and furious orchestral work with piano, which begins with what must surely be the most famous clarinet glissando of modern times, was composed with the intention of presenting as many facets as possible of music from the New World in short space of around 15 minutes. In his “Rhapsody In Blue”, Gershwin wanted to “paint a musical kaleidoscope of America – our enormous melting pot, our typical national traits, our blues, our seething city life”. With this in mind, Leonard Bernstein made a number of recordings of the work and among the many excellent recordings that he made as a conductor or as a soloist, this present version, with the Columbia Symphony from 1959, is especially of note. Bernstein takes on a double function as conductor and soloist and maneuvers his way safely and surely through the highly diversified score to create a well-rounded picture filled with hefty orchestral dynamics and finely chiseled solo playing. In Gershwin’s freely composed work the soloist and orchestra do not resort to bombastic shock effects or egomaniac keyboard acrobatics, and so this the work can be described as rhapsodic in the very best sense of the word. Most fittingly, on the B side, there is another freely composed work – the autobiographical sketch entitled An American in Paris. The superb New York Philharmonic paint the impressions of a visitor to the hectic French capital city – that too is the sound of America. Musicians: New York Philharmonic The Columbia Symphony Leonard Bernstein, conductor Artist Gershwin/Leonard Bernstein Genre Classical Label Speakers Corner Buying Options 180g 1LP Format 180g , 1LP Condition New Country Germany Track Listings Rhapsody In Blue An American In Paris Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Classical View Product Quick View Tchaikovsky / Monteux / Boston Symphony Symphony No. 4 Classical | Analogue Productions | 1LP, 200g Released 23rd August 2019 £38.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Tchaikovsky / Monteux / Boston Symphony Symphony No. 4 £38.00 Genre: Classical Label: Analogue Productions SKU: AAPC2369 Formats: 1LP, 200g Released Date: 23rd August 2019 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Camille Thomas Voice of Hope Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | 2LP Released 3rd March 2023 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Camille Thomas Voice of Hope £30.00 Genre: Classical Label: Deutsche Grammophon SKU: 4863970 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 3rd March 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View YIRUMA SOLO Classical | UMC | 2LP Released 4th March 2022 £36.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders YIRUMA SOLO £36.00 Genre: Classical Label: UMC SKU: 3809926 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 4th March 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Schubert/Richter Wanderer Fantasie – Sonata in A Major op 120 Classical | Hi Q | 180g, 1LP Released 13th October 2014 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Schubert/Richter Wanderer Fantasie – Sonata in A Major op 120 £20.00 Genre: Classical Label: Hi Q SKU: HIQLP042 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 13th October 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Federico Albanese Before And Now Seems Infinite Classical | Mercury KX | 1LP Released 25th February 2022 £20.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Federico Albanese Before And Now Seems Infinite £20.00 Genre: Classical Label: Mercury KX SKU: 3584472 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th February 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Yoko Fujita/Keiko Ogura Stradivarius On Gold CD Classical | Impex Records | 24kt Gold CD Released 10th September 2011 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Yoko Fujita/Keiko Ogura Stradivarius On Gold CD £25.00 Genre: Classical Label: Impex Records SKU: IMP8305 Formats: 24kt Gold CD Released Date: 10th September 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Cecilia Bartoli & Sol Gabeta Dolce Duello Classical | Decca | 2LP Released 24th November 2017 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Cecilia Bartoli & Sol Gabeta Dolce Duello £25.00 Genre: Classical Label: Decca SKU: 4832467 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 24th November 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Wagner Parsifal Classical | Speakers Corner | 5LP Released 2nd February 2015 £123.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wagner Parsifal £123.00 Genre: Classical Label: Speakers Corner SKU: 83522024AY Formats: 5LP Released Date: 2nd February 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Stephan Moccio Tales Of Solace Classical | Decca | 1LP Released 11th September 2020 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stephan Moccio Tales Of Solace £20.00 Genre: Classical Label: Decca SKU: 898560 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th September 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Schubert - LSO/Josef Krips Symphony No 9 (The Great) Classical | Speakers Corner | 180g, 1LP Released 18th September 2006 £34.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Schubert - LSO/Josef Krips Symphony No 9 (The Great) £34.00 Genre: Classical Label: Speakers Corner SKU: SXL2045 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 18th September 2006 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Classical Start again
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