Oscar Levant plays Gershwin. Concerto in F (30:50) -- Rhapsody in blue (12:46) -- Second rhapsody (13:25) -- "I got rhythm" variations (8:51).
Oscar Levant plays popular moderns. Preludes for piano / George Gershwin (5:36) -- Les collines d'anacapri (2:35) ; Jardins sous la pluie (2:46) / Claude Debussy -- Toccata in C major (0:54) ; Nocturne (2:25) / Valery Zhelobinsky -- Prelude in A minor (0:51) ; The age of gold -- suite (1:49) / Dmitri Shostakovich -- Sonatine / Maurice Ravel (2:48) -- Sonatina / Oscar Levant (2:45) -- Danza ritual del fuego / Manuel de Falla (3:46) -- Malagueña / Ernesto Lecuona (2:45) -- Pastourelle / Francis Poulenc (1:36) -- Golliwog's cakewalk (2:17) ; La fille aux cheveux de lin (2:19) ; Clair de lune (4:24) / Claude Debussy -- 3 mouvements perpétuels / Francis Poulenc (4:19) -- Danza del molinero (Farruca) / Manuel de Falla (1:50) -- Tango / Isaac Albéniz (2:27) -- Partita no. 1 in B-flat major / Johann Sebastian Bach (10:34).
Oscar Levant plays the music of German, Russian and American composers. Piano sonata no. 14 in C-sharp minor "Moonlight" (10:30) ; Piano sonata no. 20 in G major (3:42) ; Piano sonata no. 8 in C minor "Pathétique" (5:40) / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod / Richard Wagner (9:56) -- Waltz in A-flat major / Johannes Brahms (1:40) -- Träumerei / Robert Schumann (2:55) -- Intermezzo in A major / Johannes Brahms (4:35) -- Prélude in D minor (2:40) ; Prélude in E-flat major (3:54) ; Prélude in G major (2:50) / Sergei Rachmaninoff -- Sabre dance (2:27) ; Lullaby (3:11) / Aram Khachaturian -- Billy the Kid / Aaron Copland (6:43) -- Blue plate special / Oscar Levant (1:17).
Oscar Levant plays Chopin and Debussy. Étude in G-flat major "Black keys" (1:34) ; Étude in C minor "Revolutionary" (2:16) ; Étude in E major (4:31) ; Nocturne in E-flat major (4:23) ; Nocturne in F-sharp major (3:13) ; Berceuse in D-flat major (4:11) ; Polonaise in A major "Military" (4:2) ; Waltz in G-flat major (2:12) ; Étude in C-sharp minor (1:55) ; Waltz in C-sharp minor (3:14) / Frédéric Chopin -- Reflets dans l'eau (4:24) ; La soirée dans Grenade (4:33) ; General Lavine -- eccentric (2:12) ; Minstrels (2:06) ; La Cathédrale engloutie (4:33) ; Serenade for the doll (2:31) ; The little shepherd (2:02) ; La plus que lente (4:13) ; 2 Arabesques (6:29) / Claude Debussy.
Oscar Levant plays Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Honegger. Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 1 in B-flat minor / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (31:14) -- Concerto for piano and orchestra in A minor / Edvard Grieg (27:45) -- Concertino for piano and orchestra / Arthur Honegger (10:20).
Oscar Levant plays Khachaturian and Rubinstein. Concerto for piano and orchestra in D-flat major / Aram Khachaturian (34:49) -- Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 4 in D minor / Anton Rubinstein (34:11).
Oscar Levant plays the music of Liszt, Ravel and Mompou. Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (7:02) ; Hungarian rhapsody no. 12 in C-sharp minor (9:59) ; Valse oubliée no. 1 in F-sharp major (3:06) ; Hungarian rhapsody no. 10 in E major (5:59) ; Hungarian rhapsody no. 4 in E-flat major (5:49) ; Hungarian rhapsody no. 13 in A minor (9:27) / Franz Liszt -- Pavane pour une infante défunte (5:29) ; Le tombeau de Couperin (11:13) / Maurice Ravel -- Scènes d'enfants / Frederic Mompou (5:59).
Oscar Levant plays the music of Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Scott and Prokofiev. Waltz in C-sharp minor (3:43) ; Mazurka in A minor (4:48) ; Mazurka in B-flat minor (5:29) ; Mazurka in C-sharp minor (2:27) ; Mazurka in A minor (3:28) ; Étude in C minor "Revolutionary" (2:32) / Frédéric Chopin -- Minstrels (2:24) ; General Lavine -- eccentric (2:43) ; Jardins sous la pluie (3:29) ; Serenade for the doll (2:23) / Claude Debussy -- Sonatine / Maurice Ravel (12:25) -- Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini for piano and orchestra / Sergei Rachmaninoff (2:51) -- The age of gold -- suite / Dmitri Shostakovich (2:05) -- Lotus land / Cyril Scott (4:45) -- Visions fugitives / Sergei Prokofiev (6:13).
Note
Most music previously released (1942-1958).
Title
A rhapsody in blue : the extraordinary life of Oscar Levant.
Publisher
[New York] : Sony Classical, [2018?]
Playing time
083538
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
Oscar Levant, piano solo ; and with various orchestras and conductors.