Leonard Bernstein - Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue, An American In Paris - Speakers Corner LP

180-Gram Vinyl, Speakers Corner Audiophile Reissue

Opening with what must be the most famous clarinet glissando in modern music, Rhapsody In Blue paints a kaleidoscope of the New World — the melting pot, the blues, the seething city life — in roughly fifteen minutes. Leonard Bernstein takes a double role as conductor and soloist with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra in this celebrated 1959 reading, maneuvering through the diversified score with hefty orchestral dynamics and finely chiseled solo playing. On the flip side the New York Philharmonic paints the impressions of a visitor to the hectic French capital in the autobiographical sketch An American in Paris — that, too, is the sound of America.

Features

• 180-gram vinyl
• All-analogue Speakers Corner audiophile remaster; recorded 1958-1959, Brooklyn
• Label: Speakers Corner (originally Columbia Masterworks)

Track Listing

Side One:

1. Rhapsody In Blue

Side Two:

1. An American In Paris