Liaisons : : re-imagining Sondheim from the piano /

The works of Stephen Sondheim have been reimagined by various composers and the pieces are played on the piano by Anthony de Mare.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sondheim, Stephen (Composer), De Mare, Anthony (Composer, Instrumentalist), Akiho, Andy (Composer), Bates, Mason (Composer), Beglarian, Eve (Composer), Bermel, Derek, 1967- (Composer), Bischoff, Jherek (Composer), Bolcom, William (Composer), Brown, Jason Robert (Composer), Bunch, Kenji, 1973- (Composer), Childs, Mary Ellen (Composer), Daugherty, Michael, 1954- (Composer), Golub, Peter (Composer), Gordon, Ricky Ian (Composer), Gosfield, Annie, 1960- (Composer), Heggie, Jake, 1961- (Composer), Hersch, Fred (Composer), Horowitz, Mark Eden (Author), Iverson, Ethan (Composer), Kahane, Gabriel (Composer), Kline, Phil, 1953- (Composer), León, Tania (Composer), Lorenz, Ricardo (Composer), Marsalis, Wynton, 1961- (Composer), Moravec, Paul, 1957- (Composer), Muhly, Nico (Composer), Musto, John, 1954- (Composer), Newman, Thomas, 1955- (Composer), Rakowski, David (Composer), Reich, Steve, 1936- (Composer), Rockwell, Eric (Composer), Roumain, Daniel Bernard (Composer), Rzewski, Frederic (Composer), Sharman, Rodney (Composer), Sheik, Duncan, 1969- (Composer, Performer), Shire, David (Composer), Speach, Bernadette, 1948- (Composer), Turnage, Mark-Anthony (Composer), Vigeland, Nils (Composer)
Format: CD Audio
Language:No linguistic content
Published: München : ECM Records GmbH, [2015]
Series:ECM new series.
Subjects:
Table of 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).