George Gershwin - Complete Music for Piano and Orchestra

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George Gershwin - Complete Music for Piano and Orchestra

Awards:

Gramophone Magazine

Editor's Choice - October 2008

Label:

Bridge

Catalogue No:

BRIDGE9252

Discs:

1

Release date:

28th April 2008

Barcode:

0090404925221

Medium:

CD
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George Gershwin - Complete Music for Piano and Orchestra


Gershwin:

Rhapsody in Blue

Second Rhapsody

I Got Rhythm Variations

Piano Concerto in F major


Anne Marie McDermott (piano)

Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Justin Brown

Recorded in Dallas's superb Meyerson Hall by Grammy-winning Producer/Engineer Adam Abeshouse.

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Gramophone Magazine

October 2008

“… the performances… fly off the page with verve and confidence, rhythmic precision and real style. The slow movement of the Concerto in particular is wonderfully characterised, all smokey blues with decadent solos from the muted first trumpet. Strongly recommended.”

Gramophone Classical Music Guide

2010

“It's rare enough to have all four Gershwin works for piano and orchestra on a single disc but rarer still for each one to come near or top of the class.
First, and unusually enough, McDermott and her (British) conductor do Gershwin the courtesy of playing all the scores uncut and observing his dynamics and performance instructions to the letter. Typical of their meticulous attention to detail is the first bar of the coda (allegro con brio) in the Concerto's first movement, almost always played forte but marked (and rendered here) piano by the orchestra, mp by the soloist, allowing a crescendo over the following eight bars. A small point, maybe, but it is what the composer asked for and is all the more effective.
Such preparation would mean little, though, if the performances did not fly off the page with verve and confidence, rhythmic precision and real style. The slow movement of the Concerto in particular is wonderfully characterised, all smokey blues with decadent solos from the muted first trumpet. The Dallas strings lend a Hollywood swoon to the big tunes in the famous Rhapsody and the Concerto while the remaining two pieces are more coherent and convincing than in the hands of some far more famous names. Strongly recommended.”

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