Composer: George Antheil, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Arthur Honegger, Maurice Ravel, Erwin Schulhoff
Performer: Michael Rische
Orchestra: Bamberger Symphoniker, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Gunther Schuller, Steven Sloane, Israel Yinon, Christoph Poppen, Wayne Marshall
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hänssler
Catalogue: HC16065
Release: 2017
Size: 482 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Schulhoff: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 43
01. I. Molto sostenuto
02. II. Sostenuto
03. III. Allegro alla jazz
Copland: Piano Concerto
04. I. Andante sostenuto
05. II. Molto moderato
06. Honegger: Piano Concertino, H. 55
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
07. I. Allegramente
08. II. Adagio assai
09. III. Presto
CD 02
01. Antheil: Piano Concerto No. 1
02. Antheil: A Jazz Symphony (1955 Version)
Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F major
03. I. Allegro
04. II. Adagio – Andante con moto
05. III. Allegro agitato
Never did classical music and jazz come so close as during the 1920s. The first sounds from this period bear witness to the vitality of the partnership: long before the concepts of popular and serious music existed, there had been contacts between the kind of music which demands structured listening, whose laws are those of the ears alone, and the kind which works physically, whose meaning is not exclusively to be found in what can be heard. This polarisation makes itself felt in the twentieth century by virtue of the fact that European composers begin to take an interest in jazz, a variant form which brought powerful consequences.