George Gershwin: spartiti difficile

This arrangement by Marcel Peeters is a compilation of tunes from 'Porgy and Bess' and is meant as a tribute to one of the greatest composers of entertainment music of the 20th century. The performanc...

The overture to George Gershwin's musical 'Strike up the Band' has been masterly arranged by our grand old master Desiré Dondeyne. 'Strike Up the Band' is a milestone in the history of the Broadway mu...

Bess, You Is My Woman Now' is a crucial plot point in George and Ira Gershwin's opera 'Porgy and Bess;' it serves as the moment when the title characters admit and embrace their love for one another....

Gil Evans's arrangement of 'Here Come Da Honey Man' is the shortest track on Miles Davis's 1958 version of 'Porgy and Bess.' In the original opera, it serves as a brief but effective introduction of P...

Much like 'Bess, You Is My Woman Now,' 'I Loves You Porgy' serves as a declaration of love between the title characters of the Gershwin/Heyward opera 'Porgy and Bess.' Gil Evans's arrangement for Mile...

Trascritta da Jon Harpin dall'arrangiamento originale di Billy May, questa è la versione di Frank Sinatra del classico di Gershwin. Lo schema è segnato per 5444 e abbiamo riportato le linee d'archi or...

George Gershwin used elements of classical music and jazz in this well known and loved work. The premiere of this piece was in Aeolian Hall in New York on February 12, 1924. Paul Whiteman led his big...

Gershwin's Prelude II for piano is the second in a set of three preludes composed in 1936. In Donald Grantham's uniquely original composition, Fantasy Variations, both of the 'big' tunes in the piece...