Rhapsody in Blue
Originally composed for Paul Whiteman’s epoch-making concert of symphonic jazz in Aeolian Hall on Lincoln’s birthday in 1924, Rhapsody in Blue established Gershwin's reputation as a serious composer and has since become one of the most popular American concert works.
Starting with the famous clarinet solo, and ending with an all-out tutti across four octaves, Infinite Woodwinds and Infinite Brass work together to render the opening of the 1942 orchestration for full symphony orchestra in all its glory in each of the available spaces.
The sound is out-of-the-box Infinite Woodwinds and Infinite Brass (predominantly Main mics, followed closely by Spot mics a notch below with a hint of Ambient mics for the roomy width), with a soft multi-band compressor sitting on each instrument family bus while Focusrite’s Red 3 is subtly gluing the mix together on the master, all with a touch of tape saturation on top.
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