{"product_id":"george_gershwin_concert_and_orchestral_works","title":"George Gershwin: Concert And Orchestral Works","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Gershwin: Concert and Orchestral Works is a 2026 two-CD anthology that surveys the composer’s major concert-hall music through historically significant recordings. Released by Acrobat, it centers on Gershwin’s most celebrated orchestral works—Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, the Piano Concerto in F, Second Rhapsody (also known as Rhapsody in Rivets), the Cuban Overture, Three Preludes, and the Variations on “I Got Rhythm.” Rather than presenting a single modern interpretation, the collection assembles performances from the late 1920s through early 1960s, revealing how Gershwin’s fusion of classical form, jazz rhythm, Broadway melody, and American popular music sounded to artists close to his own era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePianist Oscar Levant is the central interpreter, appearing in a 1945 Rhapsody in Blue with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, the complete 1948 Piano Concerto in F with André Kostelanetz and the New York Philharmonic, and 1949 recordings of Variations on “I Got Rhythm,” Second Rhapsody, and the Three Preludes. The anthology also includes Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops in the bright, Latin-inflected Cuban Overture, plus an especially valuable 1929 recording of An American in Paris by Nathaniel Shilkret and the Victor Symphony Orchestra, featuring Gershwin himself on celesta. The result is both an inviting overview of Gershwin’s orchestral imagination and a compact historical document, tracing the composer’s distinctly American sound from Jazz Age exuberance to sophisticated concert music.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"CD \/ 2CD","offer_id":54130610176314,"sku":"39941","price":28.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-09-25_at_4.18.39_PM.jpg?v=1790367643","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/george_gershwin_concert_and_orchestral_works","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}