Born to Play, Wayne Marshall, Gershwin Wayne Marshall & WDR Funkhausorchester

• Paquito D'Rivera (b. 1948), Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927 - 1994): Brazilian Fantasy:
• 1 Brazilian Fantasy: No. 1. Corcovado 06:16
• Paquito D'Rivera (b. 1948), Jacob Do Bandolim (1918 - 1969): Brazilian Fantasy:
• 2 Brazilian Fantasy: No. 2. Doce di Coco 04:25
• Paquito D'Rivera (b. 1948), Pixinguinha (1897 - 1973): Brazilian Fantasy:
• 3 Brazilian Fantasy: No. 3. Um a zero 04:08
• George Gershwin (1898 - 1937):
• 4 Rhapsody No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra 13:02
• Paquito D'Rivera:
• 5 The elephant and the clown 11:19
• George Gershwin:
• 6 Strike up the band: Ouverture (1927) 06:42
• 7 Girl Crazy: Ouverture (1930) 05:42
• 8 Of Thee I Sing: Ouverture (1931) 04:24
• 9 Rhapsody in Blue, for Piano and Orcherstra 17:50
• Total Runtime 01:13:48

Info for Born to Play, Wayne Marshall, Gershwin

„Wayne Marshall was eight years old when, at home in England, he heard a Gershwin concert broadcast on the radio – a pivotal listening experience, as he recalled fifty years later in a WDR video clip. It may have set his life in a new direction, eventually leading to Cologne as Chief Conductor of the Funkhausorchester. It comes as no surprise that outstanding recordings from those six years at WDR include productions of great Gershwin works………(Excerpt from the lines notes by Joh. Jansen)

Wayne Marshall called it to an end, after ten years of being chief conductor of the WDR Funkhausorchestra, the second orchestra of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk broadcast station. Wayne just wanted to look out for new challenges, internationally and worldwide, being an independent musician, mainly organ player. This CD is a document of his work with the WDR Funkhausorchestra.

Paquito D'Rivera, clarinet
WDR Funkhausorchester Köln
Wayne Marshall, conductor, piano

Wayne Marshall
is organist-in residence at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. He is also in demand as a conductor and became Principal Guest Conductor of Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi in 2007. As organist, he draws an exceptionally varied repertoire and performs worldwide. In 2004, he gave the inaugural organ recital at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles. Recent organ recitals include Notre-Dame de Paris, Royal Albert Hall in London, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Kimmel Centre in Philadelphia, National Grand Theatre in Beijing and Vienna Konzerthaus for their 100th anniversary series. He is also a regular performer at the BBC Proms.

As conductor he has worked with orchestras including the Vienna Radio Symphony, Tonkunstler Orchestra, Brabants Orkest, WDR Cologne, Cherubini Orchestra and Santa Cecilia as well as his regular commitments with Orchestra Verdi. Wayne Marshall's future engagements include conducting the Brussels Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic and Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestras. In 2013/2014 Wayne Marshall will conduct Jake Heggie’s Opera Dead Man Walking at Opera de Montréal, the revival of Leonard Bernstein's Candide and a new production of Kurt Weill's Mahogany at the Staatsoper in Berlin.

He has recorded extensively for numerous major record labels and received an ECHO (Deutscher Schallplattenpreis) award for his ‘Gershwin Songbook’ CD. In 1998 Wayne Marshall was the BBC Musician of the year. In 2004 he received an Honorary Doctorate from Bournemouth University and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Music in 2010. Wayne Marshall has been recently appointed Artistic Director of the Valletta Capital of Culture 2018.

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