Rhapsody in Blue - Jazz Band Version (Arr. Grofé) (Opening)
~ Recording by Wayne Marshall, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| 1.15 | Rhapsody in Blue (jazz band version - opening) | 4:40 | George Gershwin (arr. Grofé) | Best Classics 100, Volume 2 | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| EMI Classics (absorbed into Warner Classics since 2013-07-19) | 0946 3 70872 2 0 |
| 1.23 | Rhapsody in Blue (opening) | 4:41 | George Gershwin | The Prodigy Conductor | Sir Simon Rattle; Alexander Borodin, Antonín Dvořák, Benjamin Britten, Carl Orff, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, George Gershwin, Georges Bizet, Gustav Holst, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Sibelius, Joaquín Rodrigo, Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurice Ravel, Modest Mussorgsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Samuel Barber, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Classics | |
| 1.94 | Rhapsody in Blue (opening) | 4:41 | George Gershwin | The Roaring Seventies | Sir Simon Rattle | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Classics | |
Relationships
| grand piano: | Wayne Marshall (British pianist, organist and conductor) |
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| orchestra: | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra |
| conductor: | Simon Rattle (conductor) |
| recording of: | Rhapsody in Blue (original 1924 jazz band version, less often performed) (partial) |
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Related works
Rhapsody in Blue (original 1924 jazz band version, less often performed)
| orchestrator: | Ferde Grofé (pianist, arranger, conductor and composer) (in 1924) |
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| composer: | George Gershwin (composer) (in 1924) |
| was commissioned by: | Paul Whiteman (in 1924) |
| publisher: | Harms, Inc. (in 1924) |
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| premiered at: | Aeolian Hall in New York, New York, United States (on 1924-02-12) |
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| later versions: | Rhapsody in Blue (Rick Wakeman version) |
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| version of: | Rhapsody in Blue (original 1924 two-piano manuscript version) |
| has revision: | Rhapsody in Blue (standard 1942 orchestration) Rhapsody in Blue (Restored to Gershwin's Original Manuscript by Alicia Zizzo) Rhapsody in Blue (1926 Grofé revision) |
| arrangements: | Rhapsody in Blue (transcription for solo piano by Gershwin 1927) Rhapsody in Blue (Glenn Miller arrangement) |
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