Liaisons

LIAISONS: RE-IMAGINING SONDHEIM FROM THE PIANO

 "To hear composers take my music and take it seriously... it's a thrill."
- Stephen Sondheim


Conceived by acclaimed concert pianist Anthony de Mare, LIAISONS is a landmark commissioning and concert project, based on the songs of legendary musical theater composer Stephen Sondheim, featuring 49 of the world’s foremost jazz, classical, opera, film, pop, and musical theater composers. The result is a brilliant compendium revealing Sondheim’s influence across multiple genres and generations, affirming him as one of the 20th century's greatest composers. Recording Available from ECM Records. Producer: Rachel Colbert

LIST OF COMPOSERS
(* indicates new/unrecorded)

Andy Akiho: Into the Woods

Timo Andres*: I Know Things Now

Mason Bates: Putting It Together

Jon Batiste*: The Gun Song/Ballad of Booth

Jeff Beal*: Not a Day Goes By

Eve Beglarian: Happiness

Mark Bennett*: Everybody Says Don't

Derek Bermel: Sorry-Grateful

Jherek Bischoff: Ballad of Guiteau

William Bolcom: Send in the Clowns/Anyone Can Whistle

Jason Robert Brown: Green Finch and Linnet Bird

Kenji Bunch: Ballad of Sweeney Todd

Christopher Cerrone*: Kiss Me

Mary Ellen Childs: Now/Later/Soon

Michael Daugherty: Everybody’s Got the Right

Anthony de Mare: after Sunday in the Park; All Things Bright and Beautiful*

Peter Golub: Children and Art
 
Ricky Ian Gordon: Every Day a Little Death
 
Annie Gosfield: A Bowler Hat
 
Ted Hearne*: Another National Anthem

Jake Heggie: A Weekend in the Country
 
Fred Hersch: No One is Alone

Stephen Hough*: Pretty Lady

Ethan Iverson: Send in the Clowns
 
Gabriel Kahane: Being Alive
 
Phil Kline: after Someone in a Tree
 
Tania Leon: Good Thing Going
 
Ricardo Lorenz: The Worst Pies in London / A Little Priest
 
Wynton Marsalis: That Old Piano Roll
 
Meredith Monk*: Poems
 
Nico Muhly: Color and Light
 
John Musto: Epiphany
 
Paul Moravec: after Losing My Mind
 
Thomas Newman: Not While I’m Around
 
Paola Prestini*: after I Wish I Could Forget You
 
Kevin Puts*: Being Alive
 
David Rakowski: The Ladies Who Lunch
 
Steve Reich: Finishing the Hat
 
Max Richter*: Anyone Can Whistle

Eric Rockwell: You Could Drive a Person Crazy
 
Daniel Bernard Roumain: Another Hundred People
 
Frederic Rzewski: I’m Still Here
 
Marc Schubring*: after Goodbye For Now

Rodney Sharman: Beautiful
 
David Shire: Love is In the Air
 
Duncan Sheik: Johanna
 
Bernadette Speach: Liaisons/ Send in the Clowns
 
Conrad Tao*: Move On
 
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Pretty Women
 
Nils Vigeland: Alma Mater/Merrily We Roll Along