Release Date: 01 December 2018
Label: Somm / Somm Recordings
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 748871500327
Genres: Classical Orchestral
Composer/Series: George Gershwin
Description
The recording followed a concert in London (the capital’s only official celebration in the centenary year of Gershwin’s birth) organised by the composer’s formidable sister, Frances – 96 at the time – who invited Serebrier to conduct An American in Paris, the Concerto in F (with Godowsky as soloist), and, in specially commissioned orchestrations by Serebrier, the Three Preludes and Lullaby – both of which are issued on disc for the first time here. The programme shows Gershwin at his inimitable, era-defining best. Composed as an extended ballet sequence for the 1951 MGM musical starring Gene Kelly, An American in Paris is a buoyant, Technicolor-bright tribute to the French capital shot through with jazz-accented vitality.
Tracklisting
Emma Halnan; Ulster Orchestra; Jac van Steen
Bebbington:Orch Swan:Curtis
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Sir Thomas Beecham
Leon McCawley
Anastasia Prokofieva; Sergey Rybin
Roderick Williams; Susie Allan
Osman Tack
Julius Patzak; Otto Wiener; Hanny Steffek; Hertha Topper; Erich Majkut; Frederick Guthrie; Franz Il
Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra; Yekaterinburg Philharmonic Choir; Alexander Rudin
Raphael Jouan; Orchestre national de Metz Grand Est; David Reiland
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine; Bar Avni
Olga Pashchenko; Il Gardellino
Ksenija Sidorova; Paavo Jarvi; Estonian Festival Orchestra
Irish Chamber Orchestra, Jorg Widmann
Camerata Salzburg; Giovanni Guzzo
Arvids Jansons; Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
