George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F, "I Got Rhythm" Variations & An American in Paris (Remastered) Prague Piano Duo

• George Gershwin (1898 - 1937):
• 1 Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (Arr. for 2 Pianos) 17:11
• Piano Concerto in F:
• 2 Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F: I. Allegro 13:31
• 3 Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F: II. Adagio 12:03
• 4 Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F: III. Allegro agitato 07:16
• I Got Rhythm Variations:
• 5 Gershwin: "I Got Rhythm" Variations: Introduction and Theme, Variation I - V 10:05
• George Gershwin:
• 6 Gershwin: An American in Paris (Arr. for 2 Pianos) 19:47
• Total Runtime 01:19:53

Info for George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F, "I Got Rhythm" Variations & An American in Paris (Remastered)

This recording brings together works that were originally written for one or two pianos, and which ""show how the composer […] in an approach similar to that of Chopin writing his waltzes, polonaises, mazurkas… started with rhythms that were subtly harmonised and, above all, firmly stereotyped, before being to profoundly distort by the need to let the music "improvise". To simplify, there are two contradictory elements: on the one hand, the rhythmic shackles rejected as such, on the other, melody harmonised in contradiction with the rhythm. It was here that the creative approaches of Ravel and Gershwin would be comparable if the greater, more perverse concern for harmonic refinement of the former was not so fundamentally different from the desire to please regardless of the price, deeply rooted in the personality of the latter"" (dixit Jean-Rémy Julien, 1977).

Awards: Recommended by Classica, 9 by Répertoire, 5 by Diapason, 4* by Le Monde de la Musique

"What an invigorating interpretation of those masterworks! The Duo of Prague restores the gallantly of those scores in which the everlasting surprise and the seducing abilities are coming from the innate art of Gershwin to improvise from folksongs. We rediscover here the original piano version polished up by the composer before his public performance." (Le Monde de la Musique, February 2002)

Prague Piano Duo

Digitally remastered

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