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(More customer reviews)Back in the sixties, when I was still studying music at the University of Vermont, an older man showed up at our music department. He had read a book by Henry Pleasance called THE AGONY OF MODERN MUSIC, a dreadful book about how modern music is all junk and we shouldn't listen to it. This man further maintained that anybody who wrote music for the movies was a hack and shouldn't be taken seriously. How I wish now that I had had this little CD with me to prove him wrong.
The Browns clearly threw themselves into this project heart and soul and the results show it. John Williams and Bernard Herrmann will always be on my list of top composers, maybe not at the very top but certainly up there. As to the rest, they've given us sparkling renditions of works by Elmer Bernstein, one of my favorite movie composers, Nino Rota, Dario Marianelli, and Philip Glass. And the solo renditions of Scott Joplin's Solace, played by Gregory, and Richard Rodgers' My Favorite Things played by Melody are both charming. On top of all that, don't miss Greg Anderson's lively transcription of Harold Arlen's Over the Rainbow which is mesmerizing when played on five Steinway pianos.
The 5 Browns have done it again. I really look forward to seeing what they will do in future. Any chance that we can get an album of them doing Holst's The Planets, or Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre?
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