거슈윈: 피아노 협주곡, '랩소디 인 블루', '섬머타임', 거슈윈-와일드: '아이 갓 리듬' 외 ; Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Piano Concerto in F, Somebody Loves Me, I Got Rhythm, Embraceable You
키릴 게르슈타인이 데이빗 로버슨이 이끄는 세인트루이스 심포니 오케스트라와 함께 2012~2017년에 걸쳐 실황으로 들려주었던 거슈윈 연주를 담은 음반!
재즈적인 감성에 대한 깊은 이해를 지닌 게르슈타인은 여기서 거슈윈의 대표작인 피아노 협주곡 F장조, ‘랩소디 인 블루’를 축으로 얼 와일드가 화려한 피아노 독주로 편곡한 노래들, 그리고 게리 버튼이 게스트로 참여한 오스카 레반트의 ‘Blame It On My Youth’까지 종횡무진 활약하고 있다.
놀라운 명인기를 갖춘 피아니스트로 유명한 게르슈타인의 또 다른 감성을 엿볼 수 있는 매력만점의 음반이다.
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1. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue 2. Wild: Somebody Loves Me 3. Gershwin: I Got Rhythm (from Girl Crazy & An American in Paris) 4. Gershwin: Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) 5. Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F major 6. Wild: Embraceable You 7. Levant: Blame It on My Youth
Gramophone Magazine March 2018 Editor's Choice Presto Editor's Choices March 2018
Gramophone Magazine March 2018 What [Gerstein] serves up here is living, breathing Gershwin that doesn’t shy from improvisation and yet retains all the crystal clarity and architectural cohesion of his interpretations of Liszt and Brahms.The result is sizzlin’, sassy and smooth, and Robertson and his St Louis musicians are there every spontaneous step of the way...Gerstein’s music-making is direct from the heart, unsentimental but rich in sentiment.
Presto Classical March 2018 Gerstein trained as a jazz pianist alongside his classical studies, and it shows: the Rhapsody (give here in its original jazz-band incarnation) comes up as fresh as paint in a performance that sounds as if it's being extemporised after-hours among friends, and the langorous but blissfully unsentimentalised Summertime (with Pink Martini vocalist Storm Large) is irresistible. - Katherine Cooper
The Observer 4th March 2018 The disc gives full rein to Gerstein’s jazz talents in all their liquid, apparently effortless variety. The Rhapsody is heard in a live performance ? full of fat, moody brass ? of the jazz-band arrangement