jacksbrain
09-08-2019, 11:54 AM
Coming back from retirement to share another Williams obscure thingy that will probably get in between 0 and 7 replies XD
Bruce Broughton
Five Pieces for Piano (2010)
1 - I. Fast and flowing 03:39
2 - II. Flowing 02:53
3 - III. E-flat Five Ways 02:38
4 - IV. Slow 04:37
5 - V. Restless; tempestuous 02:51
Michael Giacchino
Composition 430 (2013)
6 - Composition 430 06:09
Don Davis
Surface Tension (2013)
7 - Surface Tension 11:34
Alexandre Desplat
Trois �tudes (2012)
8 - II. L��treinte 06:42
John Williams
Conversations (2012-13)
9 - I. Phineas and Mumbett 04:45
10 - II. Claude and Monk05:15
11 - III. Chet and Miles 03:40
12 - IV. Strays, Duke� and Blind Tom 05:11
Randy Newman
Family Album: Homage to Alfred, Emil and Lionel Newman (2013)
13 - I. The Follies: Young and Beautiful 02:16
14 - II. Emil Teaches Sonja Henie How To Skate 02:01
15 - III. Carmen Miranda: How Many Times Do I Have to Tell You I�m Not Mexican! 01:47
16 - IV. Lionel Teaches Marilyn Monroe How To Sing 02:04
17 - V. Outdoors But Not The Red River Valley 02:20
Let's go with a bit of introduction to encourage the braves to give it a try. And for that nothing better than this short add (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52WrNa51E-0) (embedding the video does not seem to work).
Gloria Cheng (http://www.gloriachengpiano.com/gloria_cheng_biography.html) is an aclaimed pianist with a long career starting in the 80s and that has worked as featured soloist with the likes of Zubin Mehta and Pierre Boulez. During her long carreer she has performed piano on numerous film scores, some of them with these composers. You can hear her at Davis' Matrix trilogy, Williams' Horse War or at Snowy's theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK18eJRScL4).
This project began in 2012 ago when composer Bruce Broughton surprised cheng with a completed, five-movement suite, quite a technically complex one. Then John williams (who long ago had promised to write something for her) presented a short piece that she performed as an encore to a Tanglewood program in August 10, 2012; over the next year he added a second (In 2013 she premiered Bruce Broughton's Five pieces for piano and William's Conversations I and II at Mendocino Music Festival (https://mendocinomusic.org/event/gloria-cheng-2013/)), and then a third, and fourth movement. She then commissioned new pieces from Don Davis, Michael Giacchino and Randy Newman, and Alexandre Desplat offered one that he had recently written for Lang Lang.
By November that year she premiered the whole album at Piano Spheres (http://filmmusicreporter.com/2013/10/11/original-piano-works-by-john-williams-randy-newman-and-michael-giacchino-to-performed-live-in-concert/) (other reference (https://pianospheres.org/current-season/2013-14-program-notes/)). And in 2014 she did a crowdfunding campaign (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1542050667/great-film-composers-and-the-piano-cd-video-by-glo) to sustain the recording of the 6 opus and after succesfully raising the money she recorded in April of that year.
Don't come looking for catchy tunes since this chamber music is mostly non-melodic and/or abstract, except maybe Randy's which is a lovely and familiar tune perfect for a sunny Sunday morning. It is an Americana homage to his film-composer uncles.
More info:
The booklet contains quite some interesting comments on each composition.
A nice review here (https://classicalcandor.blogspot.com/2015/02/montage-great-film-composers-and-piano.html)
A lovely interview with Cheng (https://thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com/2018/09/27/conversation-with-pianist-gloria-cheng/).
During the recording of the album, Cheng was able to have five of the composers in town at the same town, so they got together at the Zipper Hall in the Colburn School of Music and did a documentary film to save this historic moment for posterity. The documentary won numerous festival awards and aired on PBS SoCal, subsequently capturing the 2018 Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for Independent Programming. It is available at Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/ondemand/montage) on demand.
There's even a recording of a panel discussion (https://vimeo.com/190646677/524fb0af33) from 2016 with four of the composers!
Another article about this release here (https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/entertainment/tn-gnp-classical-album-is-a-gathering-of-forces-20150218-story.html).
Facebook's page (https://www.facebook.com/MontageFilmComposers/) of the project with dozens of pics.
Randy himself playing his last segment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6G9XpHl2q4). Lovely.
Ok let's stop with the pointless data and links. If you made it here you are probably interested in listening to it so Link [FLAC] (http://www.mediafire.com/file/p8or2drbq0q4g1c/2015.M.GFCATP.rar/file). To extract it use 72oscarnom which is the number of Oscar nominations in between all those 6 composers at the time.
If you like it, leave a comment or rep or whatever you kids do these days. Subscribe LOL.
Bruce Broughton
Five Pieces for Piano (2010)
1 - I. Fast and flowing 03:39
2 - II. Flowing 02:53
3 - III. E-flat Five Ways 02:38
4 - IV. Slow 04:37
5 - V. Restless; tempestuous 02:51
Michael Giacchino
Composition 430 (2013)
6 - Composition 430 06:09
Don Davis
Surface Tension (2013)
7 - Surface Tension 11:34
Alexandre Desplat
Trois �tudes (2012)
8 - II. L��treinte 06:42
John Williams
Conversations (2012-13)
9 - I. Phineas and Mumbett 04:45
10 - II. Claude and Monk05:15
11 - III. Chet and Miles 03:40
12 - IV. Strays, Duke� and Blind Tom 05:11
Randy Newman
Family Album: Homage to Alfred, Emil and Lionel Newman (2013)
13 - I. The Follies: Young and Beautiful 02:16
14 - II. Emil Teaches Sonja Henie How To Skate 02:01
15 - III. Carmen Miranda: How Many Times Do I Have to Tell You I�m Not Mexican! 01:47
16 - IV. Lionel Teaches Marilyn Monroe How To Sing 02:04
17 - V. Outdoors But Not The Red River Valley 02:20
Let's go with a bit of introduction to encourage the braves to give it a try. And for that nothing better than this short add (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52WrNa51E-0) (embedding the video does not seem to work).
Gloria Cheng (http://www.gloriachengpiano.com/gloria_cheng_biography.html) is an aclaimed pianist with a long career starting in the 80s and that has worked as featured soloist with the likes of Zubin Mehta and Pierre Boulez. During her long carreer she has performed piano on numerous film scores, some of them with these composers. You can hear her at Davis' Matrix trilogy, Williams' Horse War or at Snowy's theme (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK18eJRScL4).
This project began in 2012 ago when composer Bruce Broughton surprised cheng with a completed, five-movement suite, quite a technically complex one. Then John williams (who long ago had promised to write something for her) presented a short piece that she performed as an encore to a Tanglewood program in August 10, 2012; over the next year he added a second (In 2013 she premiered Bruce Broughton's Five pieces for piano and William's Conversations I and II at Mendocino Music Festival (https://mendocinomusic.org/event/gloria-cheng-2013/)), and then a third, and fourth movement. She then commissioned new pieces from Don Davis, Michael Giacchino and Randy Newman, and Alexandre Desplat offered one that he had recently written for Lang Lang.
By November that year she premiered the whole album at Piano Spheres (http://filmmusicreporter.com/2013/10/11/original-piano-works-by-john-williams-randy-newman-and-michael-giacchino-to-performed-live-in-concert/) (other reference (https://pianospheres.org/current-season/2013-14-program-notes/)). And in 2014 she did a crowdfunding campaign (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1542050667/great-film-composers-and-the-piano-cd-video-by-glo) to sustain the recording of the 6 opus and after succesfully raising the money she recorded in April of that year.
Don't come looking for catchy tunes since this chamber music is mostly non-melodic and/or abstract, except maybe Randy's which is a lovely and familiar tune perfect for a sunny Sunday morning. It is an Americana homage to his film-composer uncles.
More info:
The booklet contains quite some interesting comments on each composition.
A nice review here (https://classicalcandor.blogspot.com/2015/02/montage-great-film-composers-and-piano.html)
A lovely interview with Cheng (https://thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com/2018/09/27/conversation-with-pianist-gloria-cheng/).
During the recording of the album, Cheng was able to have five of the composers in town at the same town, so they got together at the Zipper Hall in the Colburn School of Music and did a documentary film to save this historic moment for posterity. The documentary won numerous festival awards and aired on PBS SoCal, subsequently capturing the 2018 Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for Independent Programming. It is available at Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/ondemand/montage) on demand.
There's even a recording of a panel discussion (https://vimeo.com/190646677/524fb0af33) from 2016 with four of the composers!
Another article about this release here (https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/entertainment/tn-gnp-classical-album-is-a-gathering-of-forces-20150218-story.html).
Facebook's page (https://www.facebook.com/MontageFilmComposers/) of the project with dozens of pics.
Randy himself playing his last segment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6G9XpHl2q4). Lovely.
Ok let's stop with the pointless data and links. If you made it here you are probably interested in listening to it so Link [FLAC] (http://www.mediafire.com/file/p8or2drbq0q4g1c/2015.M.GFCATP.rar/file). To extract it use 72oscarnom which is the number of Oscar nominations in between all those 6 composers at the time.
If you like it, leave a comment or rep or whatever you kids do these days. Subscribe LOL.