Gershwin: An American in Paris; Porgy and Bess Suite - New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

George Gershwin’s An American in Paris provides a further synthesis of the jazz that he saw as the essentially American folk-music and the traditional classical orchestra. This finds a further place in his triumphantly successful black opera Porgy and Bess, from which Robert Russell Bennett has drawn a Symphonic Picture. Cuban Overture turns to the characteristic rumba, while Gershwin in Hollywood is an instrumental arrangement by Bennett of some of Gershwin’s best known songs.

Gershwin, George

 Gershwin in Hollywood

 An American in Paris

 Cuban Overture

 Porgy and Bess Suite