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Release Date: 5th Apr 2010
Catalogue No: 6066912
Label: EMI
Series: American Classics
Length: 78 minutes

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

Work length16:59

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Leonard Pennario (piano)
Recorded: 1967

Gershwin: An American in Paris, tone poem

Work length18:03

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Leonard Pennario
Recorded: 1967

Gershwin: Porgy And Bess - A Symphonic Picture

Work length23:27

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Leonard Pennario (piano)
The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
Felix Slatkin
Recorded: 1959

Gould, M: Rhumba

Work length5:33

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Felix Slatkin, The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
Recorded: 1990

Gould, M: Tango

Work length6:32

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Felix Slatkin, The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
Recorded: 1990

Gould, M: Guaracha

Work length3:12

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Felix Slatkin, The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
Recorded: 1990

Gould, M: Conga

Work length5:40

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Felix Slatkin, The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
Recorded: 1990

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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 - Rhapsody in Blue

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