Root Progressions

Six distinguished improvising artists — Anthony Davis, Jon Jang, James Newton, Arturo O’Farrill, Linda May Han Oh, and Gernot Wolfgang — composed fully-notated piano solo works for Cheng in this premiere recording. “My interest was to experience what they might choose to express in a fixed, contemporary classical medium.”

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Garlands for Steven Stucky

Cheng, a longtime friend of Stucky's and champion of his music, brings together 32 of to day's foremost composers to mourn their loss and celebrate his legacy.

Montage: Great Film Composers and the Piano, the film

The stars of this program have been nominated for 73 Academy Awards and won 9. You know their work. But do you know them? The 27' documentary chronicles what happened when Gloria Cheng challenged the world's greatest film composers - Williams, Newman, Giacchino, Broughton, Desplat and Davis - to write original pieces for solo piano. No movie. No orchestra. Just Gloria at the piano.

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Montage: Great Film Composers and the Piano

Original new works composed by Bruce Broughton, Don Davis, Alexandre Desplat, Michael Giacchino, Randy Newman, and John Williams.

The Edge of Light

Solo and chamber music by Olivier Messiaen and Kaija Saariaho with the Calder Quartet. Liner notes contributed by Peter Sellars.

Piano Music by
Salonen, Stucky & Lutosławski

2009 GRAMMY winner:
Best Instrumental Solo
Performance (without Orchestra)

Piano Dance:
A 20th-Century Portrait

Piano Music of
John Adams & Terry Riley

Piano Music of Messiaen
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