Ravel Meets Gershwin / Rattle/Berlin PO, Dianne Reeves [DVD]

Ravel Meets Gershwin / Rattle/Berlin PO, Reeves [DVD] - EuroArts - EUA 2053648

Label: EuroArts
Catalog No: EUA 2053648
Format: DVD-Video
Release Date: 2011-08-30
Number of Discs: 1
UPC Code: 880242536488

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Notes & Reviews:

A true celebration is to welcome the New Year with one of the best orchestras in the world. The Gala from Berlin 2003 presents the outstanding Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle with works by Maurice Ravel and songs by George Gershwin. Grammy-award winning jazz singer, Dianne Reeves, solos in this wonderful cross-over approach that joins two musical worlds at the highest level.

Ritmo
Simon Rattle to dismiss 2003 at the Philharmonie Berlin offered a program of "merger" quite your style, with Gershwin as thread and the French touch of Ravel, Gershwin's colleague, and FaurT, Ravel teacher. Rattle The excuse serves to provide an evening at a middle ground with "his" Berlin Philharmonic and a great jazz voice like Diane Reeves. As expected, Gershwin is reached where the hotter times of the concert. A taste of Reeves and his band merges seamlessly with orchestral support that gives them an undisputed specialist as Rattle, even able to get your template colorful jazz solos. In the French the British director gets remarkable results in FaurT's Pavane, exposed with beautiful melodic line.

Opera News
Filmed in Berlin at a New Year's Eve gala in 2003, Ravel Meets Gershwin is, for the most part, a pops concert, and as these go, a superior one. Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic give ravishing accounts of the Fauré and Ravel pieces here ... The highlight of the concert is vocal soloist Dianne Reeves performing the Gershwin songs. Reeves is that rare bird, a jazz singer who gives as much weight to the words as to the music. Although she's a true song stylist who can riff and scat with the best of them, she also makes every lyric tell - not just by way of her diamond-clear diction but through heartfelt phrasing that shows she knows what she's singing about.

Notes & Reviews:

Run Time: 91 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1



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Works Details

>Gershwin, George : Strike up the Band :: Overture
  • Performers: Gregory Hutchinson (Drums); Peter Martin (Piano); Reuben Rogers (Double Bass); Diane Reeves (Voice)
  • Conductor: Simon Rattle
  • Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Period Time: Modern
  • Written: 1927

>Gershwin, George : A Damsel in Distress, film score :: A foggy day
  • Performers: Reuben Rogers (Double Bass); Diane Reeves (Voice); Peter Martin (Piano); Gregory Hutchinson (Drums)
  • Conductor: Simon Rattle
  • Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Period Time: Modern
  • Written: 1937

>Gershwin, George : The Show is On :: By Strauss
  • Performers: Reuben Rogers (Double Bass); Diane Reeves (Voice); Peter Martin (Piano); Gregory Hutchinson (Drums)
  • Conductor: Simon Rattle
  • Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Period Time: Modern
  • Written: 1936

>Gershwin, George : Girl Crazy :: Embraceable you
  • Performers: Reuben Rogers (Double Bass); Diane Reeves (Voice); Peter Martin (Piano); Gregory Hutchinson (Drums)
  • Conductor: Simon Rattle
  • Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Period Time: Modern
  • Written: 1930

>Gershwin, George : Funny Face :: 14. 's Wonderful
  • Performers: Diane Reeves (Voice); Gregory Hutchinson (Drums); Reuben Rogers (Double Bass); Peter Martin (Piano)
  • Conductor: Simon Rattle
  • Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Period Time: Modern
  • Written: 1932

>Gershwin, George : Rosalie :: How long has this been goin' on?
  • Performers: Gregory Hutchinson (Drums); Reuben Rogers (Double Bass); Peter Martin (Piano); Diane Reeves (Voice)
  • Conductor: Simon Rattle
  • Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Period Time: Modern
  • Form: Vocal
  • Written: 1928

>Gershwin, George : A Damsel in Distress :: Nice Work If You Can Get It
  • Performers: Reuben Rogers (Double Bass); Diane Reeves (Voice); Peter Martin (Piano); Gregory Hutchinson (Drums)
  • Conductor: Simon Rattle
  • Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Period Time: Modern
  • Written: 1937

>Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924) : Pavane, Op. 50
  • Conductor: Simon Rattle
  • Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Period Time: Post Romantic
  • Written: 04/16/1898

>Ravel, Maurice : La valse
  • Conductor: Simon Rattle
  • Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Period Time: Modern
  • Written: 1919-1920

>Ravel, Maurice : Daphnis et Chloé Suite no 2
  • Conductor: Simon Rattle
  • Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Period Time: Modern
  • Written: 1913