The Music of Michel Legrand – Michel Legrand (2011, VBR)

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Tracklist:

1. Michel Legrand – Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
2. Michel Legrand – Les Demoiselles De Rochefort – Concerto
3. Michel Legrand – Once Upon A Summertime (La Valse des Lilas)
4. Michel Legrand – Summer Of ’42 – The Summer Knows
5. Michel Legrand – Di-Gue-Ding-Ding
6. Michel Legrand – Brian’s Song
7. Michel Legrand – Dingo
8. Michel Legrand – Wuthering Heights – I Was Born In Love With You
9. Michel Legrand – Gable And Lombard
10. Michel Legrand – Les Parapluies de Cherbourg – Watch What Happens
11. Michel Legrand – The Thomas Crown Affair – The Windmills Of Your Mind
12. Michel Legrand – Le Mans
13. Michel Legrand – The Hunter
14. Michel Legrand – Les Uns Et Les Autres – Un Parfum De Fin Du Monde
15. Michel Legrand – The Happy Ending – What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
16. Michel Legrand – Yentl – The Way He Makes Me Feel / Papa, Can You Hear Me? / A Piece Of Sky
17. Michel Legrand – Oum Le Dauphin – La Dauphin Oum
18. Michel Legrand – The Scoundrel – Maries De L’An 2
19. Michel Legrand – The Three Musketeers
20. Michel Legrand – Family Fugue

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In October 2010, 78-year-old French film composer Michel Legrand traveled to Moscow to conduct his arrangements of highlights from his lengthy career in recorded performances by the Moscow Virtuosi, a group composed of members of various Moscow symphony and chamber orchestras. The result is the two-CD set, The Music of Michel Legrand, which demonstrates the composer’s versatility in writing for films. It begins, naturally, with the theme from Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), commonly known as "I Will Wait for You," which first gained international recognition for Legrand in the ’60s. Also included, of course, are versions of music that won him his three Academy Awards, for the song "Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair and the scores of Summer of ’42 and Yentl, as well as a treatment from the Emmy-winning score for the TV movie Brian’s Song. Although Legrand has a light touch with symphonic themes, expressed notably in the lush "Gable and Lombard" and the throbbing, suspenseful "The Three Musketeers," along with a portion of "The Scoundrel" that sounds like it was borrowed from a Haydn symphony, the composer is also adept at bringing in elements of pop and jazz when called for. "Di Gue Ding Ding," for instance is a soft rock theme with an electric bass and rock drum set, while "Dingo" has a scatting vocalist and "Family Fugue" contains a lengthy jazz piano trio section. It was this mastery of styles that allowed Legrand to succeed as a Frenchman with one foot firmly planted in the Hollywood mainstream, and his music remains appealing in these suites and excerpts, effectively performed in 2010 under his baton.