BBC Philharmonic - Rhapsody in Blue

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Miho Hazama conductor Makoto Ozone piano George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue Miho Hazama Dawn in Retiro (re-orchestration world premiere) George Gershwin (arr. M. Hazama) Selected Songs (instrumental) Charlie Chaplin (arr. C. Ogerman/M. Hazama) Smile (instrumental) Grammy-nominated Miho Hazama, chief conductor of the Danish Radio Big Band, brings an effortless swagger to her debut at the Bridgewater Hall. At the heart of this jazz-inflected programme is George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue – a piano concerto threaded through with jazz freedom – followed by selected Gershwin songs reframed through Hazama’s luminous instrumental arrangements. Her own Dawn in Retiro , heard here in its world premiere re-orchestration, opens a different sound world: cinematic, spacious and quietly radiant.