Title:
Liaisons [CD] : re-imagining Sondheim from the piano
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Publication Date:
2015
Publication Information:
München : ECM Records GmbH, [2015]
©2015, ℗2015
Physical Description:
3 audio discs (196 minutes, 56 seconds) : digital, CD audio, stereo; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Abstract:
The works of Stephen Sondheim reimagined by various composers and played on the piano by Anthony de Mare.
General Note:
Music by various composers.
Title from disc labels.
Booklet (41 pages : illustrations ; 13 cm.) includes introductory notes by Stephen Sonheim and Anthony de Mare, and notes on the project and summaries of the musicals by Mark Eden Horowitz.
Performers:
Piano, Anthony de Mare ; backing tracks, Duncan Sheik (Birds of Victorian England).
Contents:
Disc 1: A little night fughetta / William Bolcom (1:41) -- Color and light / Nico Muhly (5:36) -- Finishing the hat - 2 pianos / Steve Reich (3:20) -- The ladies who lunch / David Rakowski (7:19) -- Perpetual happiness / Eve Beglarian (6:01) -- Birds of Victorian England / Jason Robert Brown (3:04) -- Johanna in space / Duncan Sheik (5:56) -- You could drive a person crazy / Eric Rockwell (3:01) -- That old piano roll / Wynton Marsalis (4:38) -- Sorry/grateful / Derek Bermel (6:59) -- No one is alone / Fred Hersch (4:03) -- A bowler hat / Annie Gosfield (5:17) -- I'm excited. No you're not. / Jake Heggie (5:15).
Disc 2: The demon barber / Kenji Bunch (5:07) -- Send in the clowns / Ethan Iverson (5:49) -- The worst [empanadas] in London / Ricardo Lorenz (4:53) -- I think about you / Paul Moravec (9:00) -- Very put together / Mason Bates (3:08) -- I'm still here / Frederic Rzewski (6:43) -- Love is in the air / David Shire (4:05) -- Epiphany / John Musto (5:05) -- Pretty women / Mark-Anthony Turnage (3:44) -- Paraphrase (someone in a tree) / Phil Kline (5:42) -- In and out of love / Bernadette Speach (5:59) -- Another hundred people / Daniel Bernard Roumain (7:17).
Disc 3: Into the woods / Andy Akiho (8:57) -- Every day a little death / Ricky Ian Gordon (5:18) -- Merrily we roll along / Nils Vigeland (5:39) -- Notes on 'beautiful' / Rodney Sharman (5:27) -- Being alive / Gabriel Kahane (4:45) -- Not while I'm around / Thomas Newman (2:55) -- The ballad of Guiteau / Jherek Bischoff (5:53) -- Now / Mary Ellen Childs (3:22) -- A child of children and art / Peter Golub (8:24) -- going... gone / Tania León (7:38) -- Everybody's got the right / Michael Daugherty (4:36) -- Sunday in the park- passages (encore) / Anthony de Mare (5:20).
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Language:
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English