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[email protected] www.naxos.com • www.classicsonlinehd.com • www.naxosmusiclibrary.com • blog.naxos.com NEW ON NAXOS | JANUARY 2016 8.573490 Playing Time 69:19 7 47313 34907 4 Neil Sedaka Manhattan Intermezzo Key Features • Rediscovered in brand new recordings, the four works on this American and British Works album share a connection with New York City. The works by for Piano and Orchestra Neil Sedaka and Keith Emerson have only been recorded once Benjamin Wesner, Clarinet* before with their composers at the keyboard. This is only Jeffrey Biegel, Piano the second recording of Duke Ellington’s New World a-Comin’ Brown University Orchestra • Paul Phillips in its arrangement by Maurice Peress, and pianist Jeffrey Biegel’s reinterpretation of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue brings striking new perspectives to a familiar masterpiece. Neil SEDAKA (b. 1939) Manhattan Intermezzo • Virtuoso pianist Jeffrey Biegel has received wide acclaim for his Keith EMERSON (b. 1944) Piano Concerto No. 1 recordings, including with Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Millennium Duke ELLINGTON (1899–1974) New World a-Comin’* Fantasy (8.559656) made a ClassicsToday.com ‘Disc of the George GERSHWIN (1898–1937) Rhapsody in Blue* Month’ and described as “uniformly excellent. A splendid disc… in all respects, and a mandatory acquisition if you’re interested in good contemporary music.” ClassicsToday.com also gave a This programme brings together four works for piano and orchestra 10/10 recommendation to Biegel’s recording of Leroy Anderson’s by composers best known from the fields of jazz, popular song and Piano Concerto (8.559313).