Michel LeGrand, John Williams, Ennio Morricone, Wojciech Kilar, Nino Rota, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Philip Glass, Georges Delerue, Claude Bolling, Vladimir Cosma, Francis Lai, Philippe Sarde, Gabriel Yared, Marvin Hamlisch, Justin Hurwitz, Yann Tiersen, Carlos d'Alessio, Jean Wiener, Philippe Rombi
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Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sabine Devieilhe, Antonio Pappano, Michel Portal, Nemanja Radulović, Frivolités Parisienens, Les Trilles Du Diable, Camélia Jordana, Vanessa Paradis,
Alexandre Tharaud’s relationship with film music runs deep – it also ranges wide. On his double album Cinéma the French pianist delves into 50 celebrated film scores by composers from France, Italy, the USA, Japan, Poland, Romania and Lebanon – 19 in all. Among them are Michel Legrand, John Williams, Ennio Morricone, Francis Lai, Marvin Hamlisch, Nino Rota and Philip Glass. As Tharaud says: “This album pays tribute to them with a selection of pieces for piano and orchestra and for piano solo, most in their original versions, creating a sound-world every bit as thrilling without the motion picture.” The movie magic is reinforced by Tharaud’s starry partners on the album: Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and making guest appearances are singers Vanessa Paradis, Camélia Jordana and Sabine Devieilhe, clarinettist Michel Portal and vioinist Nemanja Radulović.
