Preludes, Fugues and Riffs: Jazz in Classical Music

Preludes, Fugues and Riffs: Jazz in Classical Music

Preludes, Fugues and Riffs: Jazz in Classical Music

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Composer: George Gershwin
Composer: Darius Milhaud
Composer: Aaron Copland
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Composer: Leonard Bernstein
Composer: Jimmy Giuffre
Composer: Joaquin Rodrigo
Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
Conductor: Igor Stravinsky
Conductor: Gunther Schuller
Performer: Columbia Jazz Ensemble
Performer: Columbia Jazz Combo
Orchestra: Columbia Chamber Orchestra
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic
Performer: George Gershwin
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-05-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:

Rhapsody In Blue
La Creation du monde, Op. 81
Burlesque From Music For The Theatre (Suite In Five Parts For Small Orchestra)
Ebony Concerto For Clarinet Solo And Big Band: I. Allegro moderato
Ebony Concerto For Clarinet Solo And Big Band: II. Andante
Ebony Concerto For Clarinet Solo And Big Band: III. Moderato, Con moto
Prelude, Fugue And Riffs For Solo Clarinet And Jazz Ensemble: Prelude For The Brass
Prelude, Fugue And Riffs For Solo Clarinet And Jazz Ensemble: Fugue For The Saxes
Prelude, Fugue And Riffs For Solo Clarinet And Jazz Ensemble: Riffs For Everyone
West Side Story: Something's Coming
West Side Story: Cool
Pharaoh
Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio)

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Music Review: Classical-jazz fusion was never more alive than on this CD
Rating: 5 Stars

This NPR compilation from Sony brings together some of Bernstein's jazziest recordings during his heyday with the NY Phil., including the best of his three versions of Milhaud's "Le Creation du Monde." LB was attached to this piece, but his late- Seventies reading on EMI has hardening of the arteries and his 1945 debut recording predates LP. Milhaud created a minor masterpiece of jazzy classicism in this work, and LB gives us a swinging take.

His own Prelude, Fugue, and Riff is just as good a piece, and here there's no hesitaiton in saying that Bernstein's reading, featuring the NY Phil's legendary first clarinetist Stanley Drucker, is definitive, as is his recording of Music for the Theater by his mentor, Aaron Copland. When I was a kid in the Fifties, all these pieces still had a lot of juice, and although the landscape has changed, for me they still do. The immortal chestnut on this CD is, of course, Rhapsody in Blue, tossed off by Tilson Thomas in the original jazz band orchestration and done faster than we generally hear the piece, thanks to the gimmick of having the ocmposer himself dubbed in as the soloist. It's a gimmich but fun for a listen or two. Gershwin rips through the Rhapsody in 13 min. flat--about 5 min. faster than normal--and MTT is hard-pressed to adjust to the composer's many sudden tempo changes.

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Musical hybrids are always a dicey venture, running the risk of the whole's being less than the sum of the parts. Discussing the incorporation of jazz in classical music (or vice versa) can involve a quagmire of definitions. Instead, it is best to judge the works individually on their musical merits. All those represented here succeed to a greater or lesser degree. This disc opens with Gershwin's Manhattan anthem, Rhapsody in Blue, among the first to mix the two genres and yet to be bettered for seamlessness. Conductor Bernstein's love and understanding of the jazz idiom imbues works by Milhaud (La Création du monde) and Copland ("Burlesque" from Music for the Theatre [sic]) with the requisite swing to make their jazz influences ring true. But it is composer Bernstein (Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs for Solo Clarinet and Jazz Ensemble, West Side Story) who blends the two genres into a brew that is less noble experiment and more ecstatic experience. Recommended. --Michael Ross

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