America! Vol.2 : "Gershwin, from Broadway to the Concert Hall"
Multiple performers
2h27
Digital
HMX2908541.42
Apple Music
Spotify
The AMERICA collection provides a glimpse into 20th century American music. With Gospel, Blues and Jazz, black people gave the world the foundations on which most types of Western music - Rhythm & Blues, Soul Music, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Funk, Rap - were to be built. Each of our (2 CD) anthologies gets to the very heart of these genres and explains their origins, their rationale and their evolution.
GEORGE GERSHWIN [1898-1937] PIANO SOLO Song-Book (18 hit songs arranged by the composer) · The Man I Love. Slow and in singing style (2'25) · I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise.Vigorously (0'44) · 's Wonderful.Liltingly (1'00) · I Got Rhythm.Very marked (1'05) · Do It Again.Plaintively (1'38) · Clap Yo'Hands.Spirited (but sustained) (0'56) · Oh, Lady Be Good.Rather slow (with humour) (1'04) · Fascinating Rhythm.With agitation (0'51) · Somebody Loves Me.In a moderate tempo (1'17) · My One and Only.Lively (in strong rhythm) (0'51) · That Certain Feeling.Ardently (1'36) · Swanee.Spirited (0'38) · Sweet and Low Down.Slow (in a jazzy manner) (1'05) · Nobody But You.Capriciously (0'53) · Strike Up the Band.In spirited march tempo (0'56) · Who Cares?Rather slow (1'30) · Do Do Do.In a swinging manner (0'59) · Liza.Languidly (2'50) · Jasbo Brown's Blues(from Porgy and Bess). Allegro moderato (2'34) · An American in Paris (1928). Transcription for solo piano by William Daly (17'21) · Promenade. Allegretto moderato (3'24) · I Got Rhythm (from Girl Crazy, 1930) - Arr. James Cohn (2'24) EARL WILD [1915-2010] · Fantasy on Gershwin's Porgy & Bess (1976) (27'58)
GEORGE GERSHWIN [1898-1937] · ORCHESTRAL MUSIC "I Got Rhythm" Variations for Piano and Orchestra (1934) Original orchestration by George Gershwin (8'29) · Summertime George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward. From Porgy and Bess, 1935 (4'05) · Rhapsody in Blue (1924) Original 'jazz band' version (15'31) Piano Concerto in F · I. Allegro (13'18) · II. Adagio (12'32) · III. Allegro agitato (6'48) · Cuban Overture (10'36)
