Claire Huangci - Made in USA: Gershwin, Beach & Barber (2024)
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 01:17:33 | 178 Mb
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics
MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 01:17:33 | 178 Mb
Classical | Label: Alpha Classics
Presented as ‘An Experiment in Modern Music’ when it was premiered in 1924, Rhapsody in Blue made George Gershwin famous, and he soon set to work on a version for solo piano, recorded here by Claire Huangci. In her first solo disc for Alpha Classics, Claire was keen to celebrate this centenary alongside her roots in America, where she was born, studied music and made her debut as a concert artist at the age of nine. The brilliant improviser and transcriber Earl Wild (1915-2010) took Gershwin’s songs (Liza, Fascinatin’ Rhythm, Somebody Loves Me, I Got Rhythm, Embraceable You, Oh, Lady Be Good, The Man I Love) to form the basis of his Seven Virtuoso Etudes for solo piano.