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Release Date: 5th Apr 2010
Catalogue No: 6066902
Label: Warner Classics
Series: American Classics
Length: 76 minutes

Gershwin: Second Rhapsody

Work length15:17

$2.60

$3.40

Katia Labèque (piano), Marielle Labèque (piano)
Recorded: 1987-07-30
Recording Venue: 27-30 July 1987/No.1 Studio, Abbey Road

Allegro....

Track length7:10

$1.30

$1.70

...Sostenuto e con moto

Track length8:07

$1.30

$1.70

Gershwin: Variations on I Got Rhythm

Work length9:53

$7.80

$10.20

Katia Labèque (piano), Marielle Labèque (piano)
Recorded: 1987-07-30
Recording Venue: 27-30 July 1987/No.1 Studio, Abbey Road

Introduction and theme

Track length1:18

$1.30

$1.70

Variation 1: Moderato

Track length1:01

$1.30

$1.70

Variation 2: Allegretto valse triste

Track length1:48

$1.30

$1.70

Variation 3: Allegretto giocoso (Chinese variation)

Track length2:08

$1.30

$1.70

Variation 4: Allegretto - Andantino

Track length1:39

$1.30

$1.70

Variation 5: Allegro

Track length1:59

$1.30

$1.70

Gershwin: Two Waltzes in C

Work length4:39

$1.30

$1.70

Katia Labèque (piano), Marielle Labèque (piano)
Recorded: 1987-07-30
Recording Venue: 27-30 July 1987/No.1 Studio, Abbey Road

Excerpt, Gershwin: Blue Monday

Work length14:26

$3.90

$5.10

Katia Labèque (piano), Marielle Labèque (piano)
Recorded: 1987-07-30
Recording Venue: 27-30 July 1987 / No.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London

Part 1

Track length3:55

$1.30

$1.70

Part 2

Track length6:08

$1.30

$1.70

Part 3

Track length4:23

$1.30

$1.70

Gershwin: Our Love Is Here To Stay

Work length5:40

$1.30

$1.70

Katia Labèque (piano), Marielle Labèque (piano)
Recorded: 1987-07-30
Recording Venue: 27-30 July 1987/No.1 Studio, Abbey Road

Gershwin: Embraceable You

Work length5:51

$1.30

$1.70

Katia Labèque (piano), Marielle Labèque (piano)
Recorded: 1987-07-30
Recording Venue: 27-30 July 1987/No.1 Studio, Abbey Road

George Gershwin (1898-1937), Will Donaldson: Rialto Ripples

Work length1:51

$1.30

$1.70

Katia Labèque (piano), Marielle Labèque (piano)
Recorded: 1982-10-16
Recording Venue: 11th - 16th October, 1982 Paris

Gershwin: An American in Paris, tone poem

Work length19:43

Album only

Katia Labèque (piano), Marielle Labèque (piano)
Recorded: 1984-06-08
Recording Venue: 25-31 May & 4-8 June 1984

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This release of five new titles in the American Classics series is devoted to the music of George Gershwin.

Arguably the best-known of all 20th-century composers, George Gershwin's music encompasses with equal skill both the classical and popular genres. He was born Jacob Gershowitz in Brooklyn, New York City, in September 1898 to immigrant Jewish parents. He died at the early age of 38 from a tumour in the brain.

Gershwin started to show an interest in music from about the age of ten and, although receiving some piano tutelage, was largely self-taught in composition. It was only later in his career that he received some formal instruction in composition.

Gershwin's first employment was as a song plugger for a New York music publishing company. His first song was published in 1916 and a year later he had his first commercial successes with the rag Rialto Ripples. This was followed, in 1919, by his first big international hit, Swanee. Now established as a successful composer of popular songs, between 1919 and 1933, Gershwin produced, in collaboration with his elder brother Ira, some of the most successful Broadway musicals.

In 1924 he was commissioned by the band leader, Paul Whiteman, to produce what was to be his first 'serious' composition, the Rhapsody in Blue. This was followed a year later by the Piano Concerto in F and, in 1928, by An American in Paris. His opera Porgy and Bess was first performed on Broadway in 1935.

These five releases present a comprehensive view of Gershwin's music from the Three Preludes for solo piano to the Piano Concerto, taking in a good selection of the show songs and improvisations.

Gershwin - Piano Duets

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