Le Cinema

Charlie [1] Chaplin (Composer), Nino Rota (Composer), Sergei Dreznin (Composer), Astor Piazzolla (Composer), Toru Takemitsu (Composer), Leonid Desyatnikov (Composer), Dmitry Shostakovich (Composer), Darius Milhaud (Composer), Giya Kancheli (Composer), Andrey Boreyko (Conductor), Berlin Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin (Orchestra), Oleg Maisenberg (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Oleg Maisenberg
• Orchestra: Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin
• Conductor: Andrey Boreyko
• Composer: Charlie [1] Chaplin, Nino Rota, Sergei Dreznin, Astor Piazzolla, Toru Takemitsu, et al.
• Audio CD (February 16, 1999)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B00000I102
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,774 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Le Cinema: Modern Times: Smile

2. Improvviso (Un Diavolo Sentimentale)

3. Circus: Fantasy

4. Enrico IV: Tanti anni prima

5. Nostalghia (In Memory Of Andrey Tarkovsky)

6. Sakat (Sunset): Absalom's Death And Tango

7. Ovad (The Gadfly): Romance

8. Le boeuf sur le toit (Cinema-Fantaisie)

9. Rag-Gidon-Time

10. Amanti senza Amore: Improvviso in re minore

Editorial Reviews

This CD can be considered somewhat rare now. Sale is for the disc and front inside insert only,

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Memories of Films from Musical Themes, November 23, 2005

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Le Cinema (Audio CD)

Gidon Kremer released this delicious little CD in 1999 and it has more or less gone unnoticed since then. This is not a 'soundtrack favorites' jumble but a serious approach to some beautiful melodies as interpreted by Kremer and pianist Oleg Maisenberg, with the added presence of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra conducted by the gifted Andrey Boreyko.

Works included are by Charlie Chaplin ("Smile"), Nino Rota, Takemitsu, Shostakovich, Milhaud, Piazzola, Dunayevsky, and Giya Kancheli. The arrangements are well written and the performances honor this genre of music with the same degree of dignity offered the 'serious' works of these composers. It is a bit of lightness but a not fluff and the beautiful playing by Kremer is well worth the listening. Grady Harp, November 05

5.0 out of 5 stars An excelent cinema fantasy, September 21, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Le Cinema (Audio CD)

Excelentes versiones de estos ya clásicos temas de películas entrañables y cuyas melodías sobreviven en la memoria mas allá de los propios filmes. La interpretación de Kremer es técnicamente insuperable con la cadencia de una música sentida más allá de la interpretación. ¡Un gran disco para los amantes de la música y por supuesto del cine!

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excelent cinema fantasy, September 21, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Le Cinema (Audio CD)

Excelentes versiones de estos ya clásicos temas de películas entrañables y cuyas melodías sobreviven en la memoria mas allá de los propios filmes. La interpretación de Kremer es técnicamente insuperable con la cadencia de una música sentida más allá de la interpretación. ¡Un gran disco para los amantes de la música y por supuesto del cine!