Rhapsody In Blue & An American In Paris Gershwin/Leonard Bernstein SKU: MS6091 Barcode: 4260019714510 34.00 £34.00 Genre: Classical Label: Speakers Corner Released Date: 30th January 2014 Buying Format: 180g 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info 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. 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