COMPANY: Brilliant Classics
ARTIST: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: George Gershwin

Product: 5028421948614

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This release set presents the reissue of a Classic, the golden standard set by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin of orchestral music by George Gershwin.
Included are the Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, the Piano Concerto, Catfish Row, Cuban Overture and “I got rhythm variations”.
Slatkin and his St Louis forces play with infectious drive and brilliance, without overdoing the “jazzy” character, a perfect symbiosis of classical and jazz. Pianist Jeffrey Siegel has the right stamina, bravura, wit and guts.
Originally released on the legendary VOX label.

“The performances are consistently brilliant. Siegel takes a fairly relaxed approach in the Piano Concerto - as he does in the Rhapsody in Blue - but his playing has an authenticity about it…the standard of orchestral playing is of the highest order and Slatkin and his musicians are in inspired and spectacular form…if there’s a better set of Gershwin’s orchestral music on the market then I’ve yet to hear it.” MusicWeb International