Rhapsody in Blue - Jazz Band Version (Arr. Grofé) (Opening)

~ Recording by Wayne Marshall, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
2.15Manhattan: Rhapsody in Blue4:40George GershwinThe Best Cinema Classics... Ever!Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2005-08-08
EMI (EMI Records, or EMI Music only if there is no other imprint), Virgin (worldwide imprint of Virgin Records Ltd. and all its subsidiaries)VTDCD 735
1.15Rhapsody in Blue (jazz band version - opening)4:40George Gershwin (arr. Grofé)Best Classics 100, Volume 2Various ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • US2006-08-29
EMI Classics (absorbed into Warner Classics since 2013-07-19)0946 3 70872 2 0
1.5Manhattan (Rhapsody in Blue)4:36Wayne Marshall / Sir Simon RattleChartboxx: Movie ClassicsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • -2006
EMI Music Catalogue Marketing (a division of EMI Music Germany GmbH & Co. KG)392282
1.8Rhapsody in Blue (opening)4:45George GershwinAmerican Music (set of 7)Simon RattleAlbum + Compilation
  • GB2008-08-04
EMI Classics (absorbed into Warner Classics since 2013-07-19)2 15014 2
2.2Rhapsody in Blue4:40George GershwinThe Sound of ClassicsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
EMI Classics (absorbed into Warner Classics since 2013-07-19)
1.11Rhapsody in Blue (opening)4:37George Gershwin50 Best American ClassicsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2012-10-26
Warner Classics
1.11Rhapsody in Blue (opening)4:37George Gershwin50 Best American ClassicsVarious ArtistsAlbum + Compilation
EMI (EMI Records, or EMI Music only if there is no other imprint)50999 9 72448 2 0
1.23Rhapsody in Blue (opening)4:41George GershwinThe Prodigy ConductorSir Simon Rattle; Alexander Borodin, Antonín Dvořák, Benjamin Britten, Carl Orff, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, George Gershwin, Georges Bizet, Gustav Holst, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Sibelius, Joaquín Rodrigo, Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurice Ravel, Modest Mussorgsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Samuel Barber, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Wolfgang Amadeus MozartAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2025-01-07
Warner Classics
1.94Rhapsody in Blue (opening)4:41George GershwinThe Roaring SeventiesSir Simon RattleAlbum + Compilation
  • XW2025-01-19
Warner Classics
1.9Rhapsody in Blue (jazzband version - opening)4:45George GershwinLeaving Home: An Introduction to 20th-Century Music, 2: Tonality / Colour / America / Music NowCity of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon RattleAlbum + Compilation
EMI Classics (absorbed into Warner Classics since 2013-07-19)7243 5 66137 2 0

Relationships

grand piano:Wayne Marshall (British pianist, organist and conductor)
orchestra:City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
conductor:Simon Rattle (conductor)
recording of:Rhapsody in Blue (original 1924 jazz band version, less often performed) (partial)

Related works

Rhapsody in Blue (original 1924 jazz band version, less often performed)

orchestrator:Ferde Grofé (pianist, arranger, conductor and composer) (in 1924)
composer:George Gershwin (composer) (in 1924)
was commissioned by:Paul Whiteman (in 1924)
publisher:Harms, Inc. (in 1924)
premiered at:Aeolian Hall in New York, New York, United States (on 1924-02-12)
later versions:Rhapsody in Blue (Rick Wakeman version)
version of:Rhapsody in Blue (original 1924 two-piano manuscript version)
has revision:Rhapsody in Blue (standard 1942 orchestration)
Rhapsody in Blue (Restored to Gershwin's Original Manuscript by Alicia Zizzo)
Rhapsody in Blue (1926 Grofé revision)
arrangements:Rhapsody in Blue (transcription for solo piano by Gershwin 1927)
Rhapsody in Blue (Glenn Miller arrangement)