Lang Lang at the Movies

 
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Lang Lang at the Movies
Lang Lang (piano), with Maxim Vengerov (violin) / The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Gavin Greenaway

[ Sony Classical / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 11 September 2020

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Lang Lang has contributed to the soundtracks of blockbuster films like My Week with Marilyn and Kung Fu Panda 3. In this compilation, he also plays legendary original movie tunes in piano arrangements, as well as some all-time classics that found new fame when they were used as film music. A fascinating journey through the cinematic universe.

Soundtrack albums and film score recordings are hardly in short supply. But when a pianist of Lang Lang's calibre illuminates the world of motion pictures with his artistry, it turns every piece and every movie into a special event.

Features 2CELLOS, Herbie Hancock, Lindsey Stirling, Madeleine Peyroux and Maxim Vengerov.

Lang Lang is acritically acclaimed piano virtuoso. Lang Lang began playing the piano at the age of three. Lang Lang studied at Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music. At the early stages of his career, Lang Lang won numerous competitions including the Xinghai National Piano Competition and the Fourth International Competition for Young Pianists in Ettlingen, Germany. Lang Lang has performed with some of the worlds highly regarded orchestras including the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Tracks:

Chopin: Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor, Op. Posth., KK IVa, No. 16, B. 49
Zimmer: Gladiator Rhapsody (From "Gladiator")
Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney: Live and Let Die
Desplat: Marilyn's Theme
Zimmer: Flight (From "Man of Steel" Soundtrack)
Dudley: Poldark: Prelude
Mancini, H: Moon River
Zimmer: Oogway's Legacy
Mozart: Rondo alla Turca from Piano Sonata No. 11, K331
Elfman: Main Theme (From Spider-Man)
Morricone, E: Overture (From "The Hateful Eight" Soundtrack)
Bernstein: Tonight (from West Side Story)
Joplin: The Entertainer
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 331: III. Rondo alla turca - Allegretto