Various Artists - Once More with Feeling - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Virgin Queen' Elizabeth I was the focal-point of all England; the subject, dedicatee and audience for much of the music composed and performed throughout her long and now legendary reign.

This is a live recording of the recital given by Josep Colom at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid on 10 October 2018. Designed to encourage an original way of listening to music, the program consists of a linked sequence of single movements or pieces taken from collections. Together these form an uninterrupted whole that reveals hidden analogies between Schubert and seven other composers Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms and Schoenberg. Josep Colom also revives a once common but now forgotten performing tradition that of using improvisation to create transitions between fully composed works. His concise extempore interludes lead the listener smoothly from one composition to another, creating a kind of continuum of sound.

Cinema classics performed from such box office hits as 2001 Space Odyssey. This work also covers Sprach Zarathustra, op. 30 / R. Strauss - A room with a view. O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi) / Puccini - Out of Africa. Clarinet concerto in A major, K 622 / Mozart - Amadeus. Allegro, Serenade Eine kleine Nachtmusik / Mozart - Excalibur. Carmina Burana (excerpt) / Orff - Elvira Madigan. Andante-Piano concerto no. 21, K. 467 / Mozart - Diva. E?ben?- Ne andro lontana (from La Wally) / Catalani - The Untouchables. Recitar!- Vesti la giubba (from I Pagliacci) / Leoncavallo - Hannah and her sisters. Sola, perduta, abbandonata (from Manon Lescaut) / Puccini - Death in Venice. Adagietto, Symphony no. 5 / Mahler - Mona Lisa. Vogliatemi bene (love duet from Madama Butterfly) / Puccini - Lara Croft Tomb Raider. Piano concerto no. 5, 2nd movement, BWV 1056 / J.S. Bach - The pianist. Ballade no. 1 in G minor / Chopin - A clockwork orange. Pomp and circumstance march no. 1 / Elgar. All of these symphonic scores that added to the cinematic experience as part of the ambiance, passion and climatic settings are now yours.