Sentences with phrase «first piano piece»

Not exact matches

The best of the old themes is the one heard most famously in the first score's «Oogway Ascends» and it gets an absolutely lovely treatment in the opening «Oogway's Legacy», with romantic piano (played by Lang Lang of all people) taking centre - stage, and it's probably the best piece on the album.

The sensation of being caught in an endless loop is reinforced by the main musical theme, by Kitano regular Joe Hisaishi, a piece of treacle featuring piano and orchestra that's repeated so many times it drills its way into your skull, like one of the elevator - music themes of a comedy by Jacques Tati (or, perhaps closer to the mark, Ryuichi Sakamoto's main theme for Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, which featured Kitano's first film performance).

Retaining the idea of merging both classical music and videogame arrangements, while also continuing the musical language and ideas from the first piano collections, we hope you enjoy these pieces!»

It was only the second work that focused on new technologies to enter the Albright - Knox's collection; the first was Nam June Paik's Piano Piece, which was both created and acquired in 1993.

Here, these choir pieces have been translated into compositions for the piano for the first time, and complicate the reading of the Romantic selections by reminding us of the virtues of collectivity in relation to the soloist or notions of individual genius.

When Stefan Wolpe (1902 - 1972) began «Battle Piece» in 1942, it was to have been the first of a series of works for solo piano titled «Encouragements,» intended as a composer's contribution to the struggle against Fascism; part of the genre Kampfmusik that had earlier included chamber operas, theatre music, and agitprop songs.

Isn't a piano a musical instrument, first and foremost, not just a piece of furniture?