Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite; Mississippi Suite; Gershwin: Porgy and Bess – A Symphonic Picture
April 28, 2016Following a litany of requests, Dorati’s supreme recording of Grofé’s Grand Canyon Suite is reissued on Eloquence together with the original coupling of Robert Russell Bennett’s swaggering and masterly orchestral synthesis from ‘Porgy and Bess’. As a bonus, Howard Hanson’s bright Mercury recording of Grofé’s ‘Mississippi Suite’ fills out this reissue.