With the “Listen to the cinema!” Collection, film music is in good hands.
Stéphane Lerouge, an enthusiast with communicative enthusiasm, has been the astute pilot for two decades.
To celebrate this joyous anniversary, he has assembled a retrospective box set of two CDs, accompanied by interviews with some of the composers who have punctuated the collection and several of their collaborating filmmakers.
“We started with the written word
,
” he
confides.
There is a text by Gérard Oury speaking of Polnareff, cohabiting without problem with a writing by Gabriel Yared on Jean-Luc Godard.
“The specificity of film music is to bring together all sides and languages of music.
Michel Legrand, Lalo Schifrin or Quincy Jones are as much children of Stravinsky as of bebop ”
Stephane Lerouge
This immersion in the work of two decades reactivated many memories in this lover of musicians.
It allows us to measure the work accomplished by a series of discs that made multiple universes and expressions coexist, abolishing gender boundaries in the process.
“The specificity of film music is to bring together all sides and languages of music.
Michael
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