Composer: George Gershwin, Maurice Ravel
Performer: Pascal Rogé
Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Bertrand de Billy
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Oehms Classics
Release: 2021
Size: 410 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F major
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Adagio – Andante con moto
03. III. Allegro agitato
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
04. I. Allegramente
05. II. Adagio assai
06. III. Presto
CD 02
01. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
02. Gershwin: An American in Paris, tone poem
Ravel: Piano Concerto in D major (for the left hand)
03. I. Lento
04. II. Allegro
The award-winning French pianist Pascal Rogé presents a program of music by Gershwin and Ravel in a recording with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Bertrand de Billy. Rogé’s affinity for the French style and empathy with jazz make him particularly suited to this repertoire. His recordings of French piano music have received Gramophone, Grand Prix du Disque and Edison awards. In addition to the classical-romantic repertoire of the Viennese and German schools, 20th-century French music is also one of his specialties. “An intelligent, richly enjoyable performance of the ravel Concerto.” (BBC Music Magazine) “Roge’s playing of Ravel’s Left-Hand concerto is masterly. He has complete technical regard for the work; more importantly, he appreciates the range of the music, its darkness, menace, anger, other-worldly escape, introspection and defiance.”