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12-18-2016, 05:33 PM
The six composers featured on pianist Gloria Cheng's album entitled Montage are among today's most sought-after creators of film music. (They have amply demonstrated their skill at creating mood and propelling action for a mass audience). But, when working away from the movie screen, what melodies, harmonies, and cadences might haunt their private dreams? Gloria Cheng offers an answer to those questions with first recordings of their new works for solo piano, "a medium that can often reveal a composer's truest voice."
Bruce Broughton
5 Pieces for Piano
Fast and Flowing
Flowing
E-flat Five Ways
Slow
Restless, tempestuous
Michael Giacchino
Composition 430
Don Davis
Surface Tension
Alexandre Desplat
L'�treinte (The Embrace) (from '3 Etudes')
John Williams
Conversations
Phineas and Mumbett
Claude and Monk
Chet and Miles
Strays, Duke... and Blind Tom
Randy Newman
Family Album: Homage to Alfred, Emil and Lionel Newman
The Follies: Young and Beautiful
Emil Teaches Sonja Henie How to Skate
Carmen Miranda: 'How Many Times Do I Have to Tell You I'm Not Mexican!'
Lionel Teaches Marilyn Monroe How to Sing
Outdoors But Not the Red River Valley
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