Composer: George Antheil
Performer: Frank Dupree, Adrian Brendel, Uram Kim
Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
Conductor: Karl-Heinz Steffens
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Capriccio
Catalogue: C5309
Release: 2017
Size: 216 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. A Jazz Symphony (1925 version)
02. Piano Concerto No. 1
Capital of the World: Suite
03. I. The Tailor Shop
04. II. Meditation
05. III. Knife Dance & Farruca
06. Archipelago, ‘Rhumba’
Trade Mark “Bad Boy” – After all the experimental episodes the audience has faced in the field of New Music in recent decades, today the oeuvre of George Antheil will be welcomed with a great deal of sympathy and many a friendly smile. The American knew full well not only how to meet the expectations of an audience “prepared to protest”, but also how even to challenge them more overtly. An excellent example is the Jazz Symphony, written in 1925, shortly after George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, that bursting the limits of the customary listening experiences of teh age in a similar way to e.g. Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps of 1913.