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Release Date: 5th Apr 2010
Catalogue No: 6066882
Label: Warner Classics
Series: American Classics
Length: 77 minutes

Gershwin: A Gershwin Songbook

Work length36:16

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Wayne Marshall (piano)
Recorded: 1993-05-04
Recording Venue: 30 April - 1 May 1992 & 4 May 1993 / Henry Wood Hall, London

improvisations on songs by George Gershwin: I love you, Porgy (Porgy & Bess)

Track length3:32

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improvisations on songs by George Gershwin: They can't take that away from us (Shall we dance?)

Track length2:14

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improvisations on songs by George Gershwin: Summertime (Porgy & Bess)

Track length12:10

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improvisations on songs by George Gershwin: Let's call the whole thing off (Shall we dance?)

Track length2:50

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improvisations on songs by George Gershwin: Love walked in (Goldwyn Follies)

Track length5:49

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improvisations on songs by George Gershwin: By Strauss (The Show is On)

Track length4:00

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improvisations on songs by George Gershwin: Our love is here to stay (Goldwyn Follies)

Track length5:41

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Gershwin: Variations on I Got Rhythm

Work length8:33

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Wayne Marshall (piano)
Aalborg Symphony Orchestra
Wayne Marshall
Recorded: 1994-09-30
Recording Venue: September 1994 / Aalborg Symphonien, Aalborg

Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F major

Work length33:00

Album only

Wayne Marshall (piano)
Aalborg Symphony Orchestra
Wayne Marshall
Recorded: 1995-05-19
Recording Venue: 15-19 May 1995 / Aalborg Symphonien, Aalborg

I. Allegro

Track length12:22

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II. Adagio

Track length13:57

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III. Finale: Allegro agitato

Track length6:41

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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 Concerto in F

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