Jack Gibbons chats: 3. Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue centenary, assisted by Sir Ben Kingsley Jack Gibbons 2024-01-07 | In the 3rd of his new series of fortnightly chats on music and related topics the pianist and composer Jack Gibbons celebrates the Centenary of the creation date of Gershwin's immortal Rhapsody in Blue, with contributions from Oscar winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Remembering Georgia, 2007-2024 Jack Gibbons 2024-10-11 | In memory of Georgia, a much loved wheaten Scottish terrier (February 24 2007–October 9 2024), faithful companion with the most joyous personality, whose favorite song (for real) was Gershwin's "My Cousin in Milwaukee" (emphasis on the second syllable!).[Audio: Ella Fitzgerald singing Gershwin's My Cousin in Milwaukee, recorded 1959]For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Inspiration for a 4-year-old: read the video description Jack Gibbons 2024-10-08 | From Jack Gibbons:“BBC Children’s Hour made a recording of one of their programmes in 1962 with the intention of inspiring young children to appreciate music. The programme told a story of a young boy taking charge of a Lost Noises Office (like lost property, only lost sounds, such as bells and whistles). The boy helps an anxious grand piano find his missing B for his evening concert, and the story ends with the boy tuning in to the radio to hear the concert in which the grand piano plays the closing music of Schumann’s piano concerto (played on the BBC programme by Solomon). As a 4-year-old I was riveted by this record, and especially the Schumann extract at the end. 17 years later, as I performed the Schumann Piano Concerto for the first time, I felt great emotion as my fingers reached the spot I’d heard since I was 4-years-old, and I said to myself as I played: ‘this is it. THIS is the moment. THIS is why you’re a musician’ “For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Gibbons Piano Suite Op.111 no.7 (Valediction) with fall colors Jack Gibbons 2024-10-06 | The final movement (Valediction) of Gibbons' 7-movement "Piano Suite", composed April/May 2018, recorded at the first performance, Oxford, England, 25 July 2018, together with Fall foliage filmed high up in the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia (photographed in October 2020).For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Jack Gibbons 2024 Christmas Concert (preview) Jack Gibbons 2024-10-04 | Jack Gibbons' forthcoming Christmas Concert takes place in Oxford (UK) on 17 December 2024.Audio: One of Jack Gibbons’s “Six Helvetia Carols”, Christgeschenk (a setting of words by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) was composed in November 2018. This version for solo piano was recorded live in Oxford (England) on 20 December 2022.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Bartók plays Allegro barbaro (extract) Jack Gibbons 2024-10-03 | Bartók plays his Allegro barbaro: rare colour film (from the archives of Tibor Serly) filmed in New York, 26 September 1942, audio recorded by Bartók in Budapest on 5 November 1929.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Bartók on film Jack Gibbons 2024-09-29 | Bartók plays his Allegro barbaro: rare colour film of the composer, recorded in New York, 26 September 1942 (from the archives of Tibor Serly), audio recorded by Bartók in Budapest on 5 November 1929.The video continues with other more films of Bartók, with an extract from the slow movement of his Piano Concerto no.3 as audio backdrop.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Gibbons: Prière Op.44, in memoriam Bill Gibbons Jack Gibbons 2024-08-26 | Jack Gibbons composed his Prière (Op.44) for his younger brother Bill in the spring of 2003, to whom the work is dedicated, and who tragically died on 6 August 2024.
Horowitz performs The Anacreontic Song by John Stafford Smith Jack Gibbons 2024-07-29 | Vladimir Horowitz plays and sings 'The Anacreontic Song' by John Stafford Smith at a late night brawl at the White House (words have been added to the video in case you would like to sing along with Vladimir).
Mark Hambourg plays Tchaikovsky (cameo in The Common Touch, 1941) Jack Gibbons 2024-06-16 | The great Russian pianist Mark Hambourg (1879-1960) makes a short cameo appearance in the 1941 British film 'The Common Touch'.For more information visit http://www.jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
The Beast with Ten Fingers is back! Jack Gibbons 2024-06-02 | With the help of two of the most famous gothic horror films of the last century, a not too serious trailer for Jack Gibbons' forthcoming 36th annual Oxford Summer Piano Series, at Oxford's historic Holywell Music Room (in partnership with Wadham College, Oxford)10 July - 14 August 2024, Oxford EnglandFor more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Jack Gibbons “Unfinished melody Jack Gibbons 2024-05-27 | Jack Gibbons' "Unfinished melody" (without opus number), composed August 2004.For more information visit http://www.jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Jack Gibbons 36th Oxford Summer Piano Series (July/August 2024) Jack Gibbons 2024-03-27 | A preview of Jack Gibbons' forthcoming 36th annual Oxford Summer Piano Series, at Oxford's historic Holywell Music Room (in partnership with Wadham College, Oxford)10 July - 14 August 2024, Oxford EnglandFor more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Ravel, Bertrand, Gielgud, Gibbons: Ondine Jack Gibbons 2024-03-09 | For full video visit:youtu.be/_E1zWz8XVFMFor more information visit http://www.jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Gibbons plays Ravel Ondine (preceded by Gielgud reading Bertrand’s Ondine) Jack Gibbons 2024-03-07 | Jack Gibbons plays Ondine (the first movement of Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit), recorded live in 1983, preceded by Aloysius Bertrand’s original poem Ondine, read by Sir John Gielgud (with illustrations by Arthur Rackham for the 1909 edition of Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's Undine).For more information visit http://www.jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Gibbons: Folk Song, Opus 99 Jack Gibbons 2024-03-02 | Jack Gibbons plays his Folk Song Op.99 (completed 4 April 2014, and first performed in Oxford, England, on 9 April 2014). This original work is dedicated to the folk artists Michael and Carrie Kline. This performance was recorded at St John Evangelist church, Oxford, on 13 August 2021.For more information visit http://www.jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Tchaikovsky Cradle Song Op.16 no.1 (Vishnevskaya and Rachmaninoff) Jack Gibbons 2024-02-23 | Two different versions of Tchaikovsky's haunting Cradle Song (Lullaby) from his 6 Romances Op.16:0:00 The original song, sung by the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, accompanied at the piano by her husband Mstislav Rostropovich.4:34 Rachmaninoff himself playing his arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Lullaby Op.16 no.1. This beautiful arrangement, written in August 1941, is Rachmaninoff's last work, and was recorded in Hollywood, California on 26 February 1942.Tchaikovsky's original Cradle Song was composed 1872-73, and is a setting of a poem by Maykov from his 1860 poetry collection 'Songs of Modern Greece'.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Rhapsody in Blue at 100: Jack Gibbons celebrates, assisted by Sir Ben Kingsley Jack Gibbons 2024-02-12 | February 12 2024 marks the centenary of the first performance of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, first performed at New York's Aeolian Hall on February 12 1924. Pianist and composer Jack Gibbons celebrates, in this excerpt from his recently published talk on the centenary of the work's "creation date", with contributions from Oscar winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Where’s Gershwin’s car? Jack Gibbons 2024-01-21 | If you ever wondered what happened to Gershwin’s 1936 Cord - excerpt from Jack Gibbons' chat "Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue centenary, assisted by Sir Ben Kingsley", the 3rd of a new series of fortnightly chats. To watch the full video: youtube.com/watch?v=Q7EpCt6CpfIFor more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Gibbons: Menuetto semplice Op.87 Jack Gibbons 2024-01-21 | Jack Gibbons plays his Menuetto semplice, Op.87, composed in January 2011, recorded live in concert, Oxford England on August 18 2011. The audio is accompanied by wintry scenes surrounding Gibbons' cabin and music studio in America's Appalachian mountains during the winter storm of January 2024. For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Gibbons on the art of composing #Shorts Jack Gibbons 2024-01-16 | Excerpt from Jack Gibbons' chat "Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue centenary, assisted by Sir Ben Kingsley", the 3rd of a new series of fortnightly chats. To watch the full video: youtube.com/watch?v=Q7EpCt6CpfIFor more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Gibbons plays Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (with images of the original manuscript) Jack Gibbons 2024-01-07 | Jack Gibbons plays Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, transcribed by Gibbons from Gershwin's 1925 piano roll recording, together with images of Gershwin's original pencil manuscript of Rhapsody in Blue, dated January 7 1924.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
George Washington plays Sousa/Horowitz Stars and Stripes Forever! Jack Gibbons 2023-12-24 | Jack Gibbons plays his transcription of the Sousa/Horowitz Stars and Stripes Forever piano arrangement, recorded live at Gibbons' Naturalization party, held on December 16 2023, the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Jack Gibbons chats: 2. Christmas Eve Jack Gibbons 2023-12-24 | The second of a new series of fortnightly chats on music and related topics by the pianist and composer Jack Gibbons.This episode includes, amongst other things, an introduction to one of Gibbons' 'Helvetia carols', and music connected with his recently received American citizenship.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Gibbons: Fantaisie Op.116 (with notated scrolling score) Jack Gibbons 2023-12-10 | A notated scrolling score of Jack Gibbons' Fantaisie, composed between November 2020 and March 2021, and first performed in Oxford, England on 20 July 2021. This performance was recorded on at St John Evangelist church, Oxford, on 13 August 2021.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Jack Gibbons chats: 1. Meet the artist Jack Gibbons 2023-12-10 | The first of a new series of fortnightly chats on music and related topics by the pianist and composer Jack Gibbons.This episode includes, amongst other things, a look at Gibbons' recent piano work Fantaisie and introduces a new annonated scrolling score video of the work.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Gibbons plays Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini Jack Gibbons 2023-11-29 | Jack Gibbons plays Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, Op.43, recorded live in concert in 1990. The video also includes rare film of Rachmaninoff himself.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Gibbons: Fantaisie Op.116 (with scrolling score) • Jack Gibbons 2023-11-26 | Jack Gibbons' Fantaisie, composed between November 2020 and March 2021, was first performed in Oxford, England on 20 July 2021. This performance was recorded at St John Evangelist church, Oxford, on 13 August 2021.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Gibbons: Epitaph for a child Op.21 Jack Gibbons 2023-11-22 | Jack Gibbons' setting of the words of Robert Herrick (1591-1764), Epitaph upon a child, sung by Ann Mackay, accompanied by the composer (audio recorded in London in November 2003).For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Ruby Elzy sings Gershwin: My Mans Gone Now (Gershwin memorial concert, 1937) Jack Gibbons 2023-11-17 | Ruby Elzy, the soprano hand-picked by Gershwin to sing Serena's part in his opera Porgy and Bess, here sings My Man's Gone Now at a special nationally broadcast Gershwin memorial concert at the Hollywood Bowl on 8th September 1937, following the composer's untimely death on 11 July 1937.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficialMore information on this video from Jack Gibbons’ Facebook page:The American soprano Ruby Elzy was born in Pontotoc, Mississippi on February 20 1908. Ruby, whose grandmother was born a slave, grew up in a single parent family, her mother, a school teacher, encouraging the obvious musical talent Ruby displayed from an early age. While at college in Holly Springs, Mississippi she was overheard singing by a visiting college administrator from Ohio State University, who arranged her transfer to Ohio. Following her graduation from Ohio she received a fellowship to the Juiliard School in New York. Even before graduation from Juilliard, Ruby Elzy had already sung on Broadway and appeared on film with Paul Robeson in 'The Emperor Jones'. The screenwriter for 'The Emperor Jones' was none other than DuBose Heyward, author of the original novel Porgy and soon to be librettist for Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess. Dubose Heyward recommended Ruby Elzy to Gershwin when the composer was casting for his still unfinished opera. After just one hearing Gershwin had no hesitation in giving the 27-year-old Ruby Elzy one of the most important roles in Porgy and Bess, as Serena, whose grief after the murder of her husband Robbins is expressed in the extraordinary anguish of 'My Man's Gone Now'.Following the great success of her performances in Porgy and Bess Ruby’s career blossomed, notwithstanding the difficult times in which she was born. In December 1937 she received the great honour of being invited to perform at the White House by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Having to rush to an evening concert engagement the same day as her White House performance Elzy asked if she could call a taxi but Eleanor Roosevelt wouldn't hear of it, making her own car available instead. As she left the White House in the First Lady's black limousine, driven by a uniformed chauffeur, Ruby Elzy turned to her pianist Arthur Kaplan and said "Oh Arthur, if only my friends back in Mississippi could see this little colored girl now!"By 1943, though having featured in a number of movies, including a memorable performance singing the St Louis Blues in Bing Crosby’s Birth of the Blues (1941), her career as a singer was still firmly rooted in the classics including German Lieder, and Elzy's sights were set on grand opera, having been engaged to take the lead role in Verdi's Aida in 1944. Alas this dream would never be realised. On 19 June 1943 a long nationwide tour of Porgy and Bess in which she reprised the role of Serena came to its conclusion in Denver, Colorado. Describing what would be Ruby Elzy's final ever performance, the Denver Post wrote, on 20 June 1943:"There is a wake in Serena's room, with unforgettable color and shadow effects, where Ruby Elzy as Serena lifts her voice in the spiritual ('My Man's Gone Now')... giving a stinging reality to the finality of death".Ruby Elzy's friends, family and admirers were shocked when, just one week later, on 26 June 1943, she tragically died in Detroit, Michigan, following what should have been a routine operation to remove a benign tumor. She was only 35 years old.Other members of Ruby's family were long-lived, her mother Emma dying in 1985 at the age of 98, while her younger sister Amanda, who became a distinguished pioneering educator, died in 2004 at the age of 94. In contrast Ruby's flame burned bright and fast.Pullitzer prize-winning writer Lloyd Schwartz has described Ruby Elzy's voice as having "a unique quality that can only be described as heartbreaking". Sadly there are very few recordings of her singing, but there is a unique rehearsal recording of Porgy and Bess that Gershwin himself set up and conducted, in which the composer can be heard introducing Ruby Elzy, as well as a deeply moving performance Elzy gave at Gershwin's Memorial Concert on 8 September 1937 (following Gershwin's death on 11 July 1937). The Gershwin Memorial Concert included an array of stars from Al Jolson, Fred Astaire, Oscar Levant and José Iturbi, to the original cast of Porgy and Bess, and was broadcast live around the world from the Hollywood Bowl. Ruby Elzy sang ‘My Man’s Gone Now’ with “hair-raising” emotion, in a voice filled with both the collective grief of African American history and personal grief for the loss of Gershwin. She was surely also aware that Gershwin’s death had now cemented in time the extraordinary story of the creation of his great opera, in which she had played such an important part.
Jack Gibbons plays Rachmaninoff piano concerto no.2 (extract) Jack Gibbons 2023-11-10 | Jack Gibbons plays the end of the 2nd movement (Adagio sostenuto) of Rachmaninoff's piano concerto no.2, recorded live in concert, Oxford, on 9 September 1978.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Gibbons: Christgeschenk (solo piano) Jack Gibbons 2023-10-12 | One of Jack Gibbons’s “Six Helvetia Carols”, Christgeschenk (a setting of words by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) was composed in November 2018. This version for solo piano was recorded live in Oxford (England) on 20 December 2022.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Grieg Lyric Pieces introduced and played by Jack Gibbons Jack Gibbons 2023-09-27 | Jack Gibbons introduces and plays the first and last of Grieg's Lyric Pieces.0:00 spoken introduction:0:42 Arietta Op12 no.11:49 Efterklang (Remembrances) Op.71, no.7For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Gibbons: Consolation, Op.88 Jack Gibbons 2023-09-03 | Jack Gibbons' Consolation Op.88, composed February 2011 (filmed at SJE Arts, Oxford, on 13 August 2021).For more information visit http://www.jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Tartinis Dream (and a more recent occurrence) Jack Gibbons 2023-09-03 | The story of Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata, and a more recent example of a dream realised in music (music extracts by Gibbons, Paganini and Tartini)For more information visit http://www.jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Gibbons: Melody in F sharp Op.80 Jack Gibbons 2023-07-27 | Jack Gibbons’ Melody in F sharp, Op.80, was composed in America in January 2008 and first performed in England the same month. This performance was recorded at St John Evangelist church, Oxford, on 13 August 2021.For more information visit http://www.jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Preview of Jack Gibbons Alkan concert, Oxford Summer Piano Series Jack Gibbons 2023-06-26 | A preview of Jack Gibbons' forthcoming all-Alkan concert, in his 35th annual Oxford Summer Piano Series, featuring the Symphony and Concerto for solo piano by Chopin and Liszt's enigmatic contemporary, in celebration of the 210th anniversary of the year of Alkan's birth.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Jack Gibbons 35th Oxford Summer Piano Series (July/August 2023) Jack Gibbons 2023-06-05 | A preview of Jack Gibbons' forthcoming 35th annual Oxford Summer Piano Series12 July - 16 August 2023, Oxford EnglandTo go directly to individual previews of each of the 8 concerts:0:00 Concert 1: Beethoven1:01 Concert 2: The story of Gershwin part 11:36 Concert 3: Chopin Life & Times part 12:25 Concert 4: Alkan "The Berlioz of the piano"4:01 Concert 5: The story of Gershwin part 25:16 Concert 6: Chopin Life & Times part 27:10 Concert 7: Schubert "Melodies fit for angels"8:19 Concert 8: Farewell Piano PartyFor more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
A new album of piano music by Jack Gibbons Jack Gibbons 2023-05-29 | Jack Gibbons' new album, 'Fantaisie', featuring a selection of his piano music, will shortly be available.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Dorothy Howell Nocturne for muted strings (1926) Jack Gibbons 2023-05-20 | Dorothy Howell (1898-1982) was an English composer and pianist whose works were performed with great success at Henry Wood's Prom concerts beginning in 1919. Her Nocturne for strings (one of two pieces for muted strings) was composed in 1926 and likely first performed by John Barbirolli and the Chenil Chamber Orchestra at the Chenil Galleries, Chelsea, London on 14 June 1926.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Gibbons plays Gershwin: Strike Up The Band Overture Jack Gibbons 2023-05-17 | Jack Gibbons plays his arrangement of Gershwin's Overture to Strike Up The Band (1930 version adapted Don Rose) from Volume 2 of Gibbons' award-winning 'Authentic George Gershwin' CD series, recorded in England in 1992.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Jack Gibbons plays Chopin: Etude in E major Op.10 no.3 Jack Gibbons 2023-05-07 | Jack Gibbons plays Chopin's Etude Op 10 no 3, recorded live in concert, 20 July 2021For more on Jack Gibbons visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Dohnányi talks about Brahms and Liszt (1957) Jack Gibbons 2023-04-13 | The Hungarian/American composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi (1877-1960) talks about meeting Brahms and Liszt, in an extract from a televised interview recorded in the US in 1957.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Dohnányi plays his Rhapsody in F sharp minor Op.11 no.2 (1957) Jack Gibbons 2023-04-13 | The Hungarian/American composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi (1877-1960) plays his Rhapsody in F sharp minor Op.11 no.2, in a televised performance recorded in the US in 1957.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Dohnányi plays his Intermezzo Op.2 no.3 (1957) Jack Gibbons 2023-04-13 | The Hungarian/American composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi (1877-1960) plays his Intermezzo (Klavierstücke Op.2 no.3), in a televised performance recorded in the US in 1957.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Willy Wonkas Rachmaninoff joke Jack Gibbons 2023-04-03 | Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Rachmaninoff's birth (both 1 April 1873) with a little help from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Jack Gibbons plays Rachmaninoff: Prelude Op.32 no.5 Jack Gibbons 2023-04-01 | Jack Gibbons plays Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in G, Op.32 no.5, recorded live in New York, September 2000. The music is accompanied by rare home movies of Rachmaninoff (including with his granddaughter Sophie). For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Dohnányi Interview & performance, 1957 Jack Gibbons 2023-03-31 | The Hungarian/American composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi (1877-1960) discusses his early days as a composer with Edward Kilényi and Colin Stern, recorded in 1957, and plays three of his early works: 0:43 Winterreigen Op.13 no.3, "An Ada" (To Ada)12:29 Klavierstücke Op.2 no.320:08 Rhapsody no.2 in F# minor Op.11 no.2For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Jack Gibbons plays Schumann’s ‘The Poet Speaks’ (childhood recording) Jack Gibbons 2023-03-23 | Jack Gibbons plays Der Dichter spricht (The Poet Speaks), the last piece from Schumann’s Kinderszenen, recorded at one of Gibbons’ first concerts as a child, in the 1970s.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
Jack Gibbons plays Träumerie (childhood recording) Jack Gibbons 2023-03-23 | Jack Gibbons plays Träumerie from Schumann’s Kinderszenen, recorded at one of Gibbons’ first concerts as a child, in the 1970s.For more information visit http://jackgibbons.comYou can also follow Jack Gibbons on social media:facebook.com/JackGibbonsPianotwitter.com/jackgibbonsinstagram.com/jackgibbonsofficial
