Sebastien Knauer - Hollywood [2LP]

Warner Classics

£46.80

Format: 2 x LP
ICPN: 5021732431059
Release Date: 29 Nov 2024
Genre: Classical

● Hollywood, the new album by German pianist Sebastian Knauer is centred around the music and family story of legendary American film music composer Alfred Newman.
● He recorded it with the son of Alfred, conductor and composer David Newman and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
● Alfred Newman, the founding father of the Hollywood sound, composer of the world's most famous fanfare, the 20th Century Fox logo, winner of nine Academy Awards, nominated for 45, friend of Gershwin,Copland, Bernard Herrmann, mentor of Alex North, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith and founder of the most successful film music dynasty: his younger brothers Emil and Lionel Newman (“Hello, Dolly!”), his older son David Newman (“Ice Age”, “Anastasia”), the younger son Thomas Newman (“American Beauty”, "James Bond: Skyfall"), his nephew Randy Newman ... and his grandchildren are already starting their careers ...
● George Gershwin or Aaron Copland, Alex North or Elmer Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann or Jerry Goldsmith - all the composers on Sebastian Knauer's new album have three things in common: they come from the USA, they have naturally intertwined classical composition and film music and they are closely associated with Alfred Newman.

LP 1
SIDE A:
Alfred Newman (Arr. David Newman)
1. "Main Title" from "Greatest Story ever told"
James Horner (Arr. David Newman)
2. "Main Title" from "Beautiful Mind"
Jerry Goldsmith (Arr. David Newman)
3. "Suite" from "A patch of Blue"
Alex North (Arr. David Newman)
4. "Love Theme" from "Spartacus"
SIDE B:
David Newman (Commissioned by Sebastian Knauer)
1. "Some Time ago"
Elmer Bernstein (Arr. David Newman)
2. "Main Title" from "To kill a Mockingbird"
Alfred Newman (Arr. David Newman)
3. "No Goodbye" from "How the West Was Won"
Alfred Newman (Arr. David Newman)
4. "Street Scene" from "How to Marry a Millionaire"

LP2
SIDE C:
Jerry Goldsmith (Arr. David Newman)
1. "Suite" from "Basic Instinct"
James Horner (Arr. David Newman)
2. "An Apparition In The Fields" from "The New World"
Conrad Pope (Commissioned by Sebastian Knauer)
3. Capriccio
Alfred Newman (Arr. David Newman)
4. "Love Theme" from "The Robe"
SIDE D:
Aaron Copland
1. "Story of Our Town" from "Our Town" - piano solo: Sebastian Knauer
George Gershwin and Morton Gould
2. "Rhapsody on Someone to watch over me & Fascinating Rhythm"
Thomas Newman (Commissioned by Sebastian Knauer)
3. "Shoulder Length"

Artists
Sebastian Knauer, piano
Diana Newman, soprano. CD and DIGITAL Tracks no. 2, 10; LP1 Side A, Track no. 2, LP2 Side C, Track no. 2.
Harry Ermer, harmonica. CD and DIGITAL Track no. 3; LP1 Side A, Track no. 3.
Tobias Backhaus, drums. CD and DIGITAL Track no. 5; LP1 Side B, Track no. 1.
Haggai Cohen-Milo, double bass. CD and DIGITAL Track no. 5; LP1 Side B, Track no.1.
Vojtech Drnek, accordion. CD and DIGITAL Track no. 6; LP1 Side B, Track no. 2.
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
David Newman, conductor