Alexandre Tharaud - Cinema (orchestral repertoire)Alexandre Tharaud's relationship with film music runs deep it also ranges wide. On his double album CINEMA, 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

In the intimacy of these genres

which are the trademark of this unique Northern Irish artist

Following his spectacular concertos for piano and for violin

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these songs of innocence with their falsely casual lyrics run through your head without respite

here she offers us a tailor-made program in the heart of the compositional process

" "One Mississippi

romance flourishes in an unlikely place-the bleak and moody Scottish Hebrides

stifled wife

we will hear echoes referring to the tradition of early religious music

optimism and joy

Over a century of captivating French music for the flute