Share:

Gershwin Rhapsody In Blue & An American In Paris 180g LP

$41.99
 
Availability: Backordered
In Stock An In Stock item is available to ship normally within 24 business hours.
Preorder A Preorder is an item that has not yet been released. Typically the label will set a projected release date (that is subject to change). If a projected release date is known, we will include this in the description in red. Other Preorders are set to release 'TBA.' This means that release date is yet 'To Be Announced'. The Preorder can be released anywhere between weeks, months or years from its initial announcement.
Backordered An Out Of Stock item is an item that we normally have available to ship but we are temporarily out of. We do not have a specific date when it will be coming.
Awaiting Repress Awaiting repress titles are in the process of being repressed by the label. No ETA is available at this time.
Expected On When an item is Out Of Stock and we have an estimated date when our stock should arrive, we list that date on our website in the part's description. It is not guaranteed.
Special Order A Special Order item is an item that we do not stock but can order from the manufacturer. Typical order times are located within the product description.
 
SKU:
EUROS6091
UPC:
4260019714510
Adding to cart… The item has been added
180g High Quality Pressing!

This fast and furious orchestral work with piano, which begins with what must surely be the most famous clarinet glissando of modern times, was composed with the intention of presenting as many facets as possible of music from the New World in short space of around 15 minutes. In his "Rhapsody In Blue", Gershwin wanted to "paint a musical kaleidoscope of America - our enormous melting pot, our typical national traits, our blues, our seething city life". With this in mind, Leonard Bernstein made a number of recordings of the work and among the many excellent recordings that he made as a conductor or as a soloist, this present version, with the Columbia Symphony from 1959, is especially of note. Bernstein takes on a double function as conductor and soloist and maneuvers his way safely and surely through the highly diversified score to create a well-rounded picture filled with hefty orchestral dynamics and finely chiseled solo playing. In Gershwin's freely composed work the soloist and orchestra do not resort to bombastic shock effects or egomaniac keyboard acrobatics, and so this the work can be described as rhapsodic in the very best sense of the word.

Most fittingly, on the B side, there is another freely composed work - the autobiographical sketch entitled An American in Paris. The superb New York Philharmonic paint the impressions of a visitor to the hectic French capital city - that too is the sound of America.

Features:
• 180g Virgin Vinyl
• High Quality Pressing
• Pure Analogue Audiophile Mastering

Musicians:
New York Philharmonic on "An American In Paris"
The Columbia Symphony on "Rhapsody In Blue"
Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Selections:
George Gershwin (1898-1937)

1. Rhapsody In Blue
2. An American In Paris

Recorded June 1959 and December 1958 at St. George Hotel, Brooklyn, New York.

Customers Also Like