Simon Westman Trio - Moving Forward - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Prelude Premonitions 2. Scene 1 Ulysses' Return 3. Interlude 1 Ulysses and Argos 4. Scene 2 The Suitors 5. Interlude 2 While the Suitors Sleep 6. Scene 3 Penelope 7. Interlude 3 Penelope's Dream 8. Scene 4 The Trial of the Bow 9. Interlude 4 The Ritual of Purification 10. Scene 5 Reunion

With a stunning score by Rodgers & Hammerstein, the 1965 film The Sound of Music boasted a dream cast led by Julie Andrews (Maria) and Christopher Plummer (Captain). Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Scoring of Music, The Sound of Music made Hollywood history, becoming the most popular movie musical ever made. The soundtrack includes instantly recognizable hits like InchEdelweiss,Inch InchMy Favorite Things,Inch InchDo-Re-Mi,Inch InchSixteen Going on SeventeenInch and InchThe Sound of Music.Inch Album Tracks 1. Prelude and the Sound of Music - Maria 2. Overture and Preludium (Dixit Dominus) - Orchestra and Nuns Chorus 3. Morning Hymn and Alleluia - Nuns Chorus 4. Maria - Nuns Chorus 5. I Have Confidence - Maria 6. Sixteen Going on Seventeen - Rolf and Liesl 7. My Favorite Things - Maria 8. Climb Ev'ry Mountain - Mother Abbess 1. The Lonely Goatherd - Maria and the Children 2. The Sound of Music - the Children and the Captain 3. Do-Re-Mi - Maria and the Children 4. Something Good - Maria and the Captain 5. Processional and Maria - Organ, Orchestra and Nuns Chorus 6. Edelweiss - the Captain, Maria, the Children and Chorus 7. So Long, Farewell - the Children 8. Climb Ev'ry Mountain (Reprise) - Chorus and Orchestra

British composer Michael Head (1900-1976) initially studied piano with Jean Adair, a student of famous Clara Schumann, and vocal performance with Fritz Marston. It was only in 1919 that he began studying composition in the class of Prof. Frederick Corder after he had been admitted to the Royal Academy of Music in London as a Sir Michael Costa scholarship holder. After completing his education, Head lectured at that university for many years. Peter Hope, born in 1930, is another representative of the British school of composers on the present album, also known under the pseudonym William Gardner. He gained fame as an outstanding arranger (he worked with the BBC Concert Orchestra on a number of occasions and orchestrated pieces by composers linked to the American film industry, e.g. John Williams, James Horner, or Laurence Rosenthal). Despite the fact that he has dealt mainly with arrangements and transcriptions throughout his career, his compositional output can be considered impressive. André Previn (1929-2019), an American artist, is mainly associated as a world-famous conductor, pianist, and promoter of outstanding violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. In this context, his compositional out-put seems to be unjustly forgotten. An international composer, Daniel Baldwin's music has been performed around the globe in Canada, Italy, Germany, Japan, China, Belgium, and Australia, just to name a few. His music is published exclusively by Imagine Music Publishing, through which he is the editor of a band/orchestra/choir series titled InchThe Pathways SeriesInch. Album Tracks 1. Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano (Ca. 1919) 2. Four Sketches for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano (2003) 3. Awatovi for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano (2012) 4. Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano (1995)