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engmus-f1005-6
Cinema Serenade
(Includes
1 Morricone's music)
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY
ORGHESTRA
The
music uploaded by Xiaocui. Thanks web friend Xiaocui
E-mail
of Xiaocui : cuiyuan121@163.com
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A
brief about the album
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| Itzhak Perlman is a
versatile classical violin virtuoso in the world.
John William is an Oscar five time winning composer
for film music and also a populated conductor for
orchestra music in the classical world. William
is conducting for Pittsburgh Symphony in CINEMA
SERENADE |
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| Many of you may have
known Perlman and William well. Maybe I can say
few more words for the PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY. Pittsburgh
Symphony is a world famous orchestra who has made
hundreds of critically acclaimed discs under various
big name labels like, CBS, Philips, Sony Classical,
Telarc, etc. The Orchestra, with Lorin Maazel conducting
and Yo-Yo Ma, won a 1992 Grammy award for a Sony
Classical disc featuring works by Prokofiev and
Tchaikovsky.
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| If so, in CINEMA SERENADE
the three have formed up an undefeatable music army
force assured for best quality performance. Sony
Classical label is also widely recognized for its
good and reliable quality at recording and music
production. What could go wrong? Let's look into
the music pieces selected for this album |
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| I’ve always been a
lover of classical music. “Classical music? Boring,”
most may say. However, it’s unfair to judge classical
music as a whole when there is so much great classical
music available.
There is a great discussion going
on over at Violinist.com about which songs catch
the non-classical music listener’s ear. When my
friends ask me for music suggestions to introduce
them to classical music, I’ll automatically point
to Cinema Serenade.
In Cinema Serenade, John Williams
joins forces with Itzhak Perlman to create a collection
of emotional and exquisitely beautiful renditions
of timeless film scores. These are pieces that
you listen to with closed eyes and a sentimental
heart. These are pieces range from romantic and
schmaltzy to mournful and bleak. What’s great
about this music is that, without words, it leaves
the interpretation completely up to you. Cinema
Paradiso could be about a painful heartbreak or
a joyous feeling of accomplishment.
John Williams and Itzhak Perlman
work together in a seamless fashion, transcribing
the music perfectly. Soaring melodies and countermelodies
dominate these pieces, making the music a very
emotional experience.
Cinema Serenade has always ranked
high on my list of most played songs and I highly
recommend it to any music lover, classical or
not. Listen to some of the samples in iTMS and
you’ll hear what I’m talking about.
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| On this disc of themes
and songs from famous movies, the playing's the
thing that beguiles ear and heart. The music varies
in quality, but it captures the national and emotional
flavor of the films, sometimes aided, sometimes
overwhelmed by the orchestration. André Previn's
and John Williams's compositions and arrangements
stand out. Except for one lively Irish dance, the
basic mood is wistful, nostalgic, melancholy, and
always sentimental, but Perlman can turn pure corn
into pure gold. His tone is ravishingly, exquisitely
beautiful. Focused and intense, it sings, shimmers,
and glows, soaring into the highest register with
radiant ecstasy. Equally remarkably, he brings no
less seriousness, care, and expressiveness to this
music than to his customary repertoire, yet projects
a sense of having a wonderful time. The arrangements,
especially those by Williams, seem tailor-made to
his strengths, giving him plenty of chances to display
his virtuosity, flair, gypsy abandon, improvisatory
freedom, and infinite charm, and he uses them to
the hilt. Listeners familiar with the films may
find their favorite tunes freshly illuminated; the
uninitiated could not wish for a more persuasive
introduction to the style. (by Edith Eisler)
1. The Color Purple: Main Title
2. Scent Of A Woman: Tango (Por Una Cabeza)
3. Yentl: Papa, Can You Hear Me?
4. Il Postino: Theme
5. The Age Of Innocence: Theme
6. Far And Away: Theme
7. The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg: I Will Wait For
You
8. Four Horseman Of The Apocalypse: Theme
9. Sabrina: Theme
10. Out Of Africa: Main Title
11. Black Orpheus: Manha De Carnaval
12. Schindler's List: Theme
13. Cinema Paradiso: Love Theme
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Cinema
Serenade
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WMA Listen
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001
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Main Title from The
Color Purple
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002
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Tango (Por Una Cabeza)
from Scent of a Woman
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003
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Papa, Can You Hear
Me? from Yentl
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004
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Theme from Il Postino
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005
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Theme from the Age
of Innocence
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006
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Theme from Far and
Away
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007
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I Will Wait for You
from the Umbrellas of Cherbourg
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008
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Theme from Four Horsemen
of the Apolcalypse
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009
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Theme from Sabrina
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010
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I Had a Farm in Africa
(Main Title from Out of Africa)
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011
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Manha de Carnaval (Morning
of the Carnival)-from Black Orpheus
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012
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Theme from Schindler's
List
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013
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Love Theme from Cinema
Paradiso (Morricone's music)
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| A
lot of people believe that I began with the cinema, and then
started to write "absolute music"; it is not true.
I began with writing "absolute music", and then I
worked for the cinema because some directors called to me. I
made experiences of arrangements for the radio, the television,
the theatre... Therefore, I became known and was called for
the cinema.For the film The
Mission, Roland Joffé wanted eclectic music...The film story
is true: it happened in the 18th century, in a period, musically,
of a renewal of the instrumental music. This music is brought
by a priest, playing oboe, in South America. He brings not only
the instrumental music, with his oboe, but the rules of the
Trento's council (1), dating from the end of the 16th century.
It established some rules to put some order in the liturgical
music, for which Palestrina (2) is the main responsible.Here
are the two roots of the occidental music, put in the film The
Mission: the liturgical music rules and the instrumental music.
A third element added is the ethnic music, from the Guaranis.
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