George Gershwin  (1898 - 1939)  America


     George Gershwin  (Wikipedia article)

     Complete List of Gershwin's Compositions


Best Known Works:

Rhapsody in Blue (1924), An American in Paris (1928), the folk opera Porgy and Bess (1935), 
and many popular songs like I've Got Rhythm and Someone to Watch Over Me.  (his brother Ira 
wrote the lyrics for many of them for their Broadway shows.  


Biography:




Selected Gershwin Piano Compositions:

   Orchestral

        Rhapsody in Blue for piano and orchestra (1924)  (18:00)

                  Lang Lang, piano.  

        Concerto in F for piano and orchestra (1925)

                  Yuja Wang, piano, Micheal Tilson Thomas, cond.

      ALT -  Marcus Roberts, piano, Seiji Ozawa, cond.

                     1.  Allegro  (13:50)  

                    2.  Adagio - Andante con moto  (13:00)

                    3.  Allegro agitato  (7:00)


       Variations on "I Got Rhythm" for piano and orchestra  (1934)  (8:30)

                 Alfredo Ovalles, piano Akademischer Orchesterverein Wien - Marta Gardolińska, cond. 


   Solo piano

        Three Preludes (1926)  Krystian Zimerman, piano  (5:00)

        George Gershwin's Song-book (1932), solo piano arrangements of 18 songs



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