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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... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 28th Apr 2008
Catalogue No: BRIDGE9252
Label: Bridge
Length: 72 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

October 2008

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Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

Work length17:30

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Anne-Marie McDermott
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Justin Brown

Gershwin: Second Rhapsody

Work length14:10

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$3.85

Anne-Marie McDermott
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Justin Brown

Gershwin: Variations on I Got Rhythm

Work length8:39

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$2.60

Anne-Marie McDermott
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Justin Brown

Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F major

Work length32:28

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$9.00

Anne-Marie McDermott
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Justin Brown

I. Allegro

Track length12:56

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II. Adagio

Track length12:39

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$3.85

III. Allegro agitato

Track length6:53

$1.00

$1.30

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

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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.

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.

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