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The good ones become violinists in the orchestra, the cool ones play saxophone and join the big band - isn't that how it was and is at school? Of course it's a cliché. But big band and symphony orchestra are still two different worlds. Here, however - for Gershwin's eternal classics - the two come together, and Alain Altinoglu and the piano along with them. Gershwin was the man who provided American music with both: the sophistication of the classical orchestral format and the slightly garish sound of the fresh, jazzy wind section. And also with truly immortal hits such as “Rhapsody in Blue”, in which chief conductor Alain Altinoglu can show that he also cuts a dazzling figure on the keys. However, when something blatantly honks in the orchestral piece “An American in Paris”, it is not the fault of the hr-Bigband. No, Gershwin himself wrote car horns into his score. The good ones play the violin, everyone else wants to play the horn in the hr-Sinfonieorchester.
(hr-Sinfonieorchester - Frankfurt Radio Symphony)
