The works of the outstanding American composer George Gershwin (1898-1937) include symphonic and piano pieces, musicals, and numerous songs. His opera Porgy and Bess (1935), based on Afro-American tunes, is permeated with intonations and rhythms of spirituals, blues, ragtimes.

The concert transcription of the opera is written by the well-known Russian pianist, Professor of the Royal College of Music in London Dmitri Alexeev. The premiere of the First Suite was given by Dmitri Alexeev and Nikolai Demidenko at the Klavierfestival Ruhr in Germany in the summer of 2006.

For students of music colleges and conservatoires, as well as for amateurs.