Porgy, Preludes & Paris
Gershwin Arrangements For Piano Duo
Robert and Linda Stoodley (piano duo)
Scenes from Porgy and Bess is excellent. This is really a well-developed fantasy that re-presents not only the main melodies of this American masterpiece, but also ‘works in’ musical textures...
Porgy, Preludes & Paris
Gershwin Arrangements For Piano Duo
Robert and Linda Stoodley (piano duo)
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Scenes from Porgy and Bess is excellent. This is really a well-developed fantasy that re-presents not only the main melodies of this American masterpiece, but also ‘works in’ musical textures...
About
Husband and wife team Robert and Linda Stoodley are an adventurous duo with a very wide range of repertoire from the pops to major classical works which they present to appreciative audiences all around the world, spending much time as recitalists on cruise ships. They are also accomplished arrangers, as demonstrated by the brilliant transcriptions on their recordings. Following their well received Divine Art debut album ‘France Revisited’ they present superb new arrangements of George Gershwin works from the serious (Porgy & Bess) to tin pan alley songs, often interwined and merged. Purists may frown but such arrangements, sampling and “medleying” were well known to Gershwin himself.
Contents and tracklist
- Piano À Deux
- Recorded: 1-2/7-8 August 2018
- Recording Venue: St. Peter and Paul Church, Hanborough, Oxfordshire, UK
- Piano À Deux
- Recorded: 1-2/7-8 August 2018
- Recording Venue: St. Peter and Paul Church, Hanborough, Oxfordshire, UK
Awards and reviews
March 2019
Scenes from Porgy and Bess is excellent. This is really a well-developed fantasy that re-presents not only the main melodies of this American masterpiece, but also ‘works in’ musical textures from the accompaniment and the chorus parts. As such, it is highly successful.
