Lang Lang: Live from Lincoln Center presents New York Rhapsody [Blu-ray]

Accompanying DVD/Blu Ray from ‘Live at Lincoln Center’ concert presents Lang Lang’s homage to the ‘City that Never Sleeps’ with guests artists including Rufus Wainwright, Andra Day, Regina Spektor, Suzanne Vega, Kurt Elling and Lindsey Stirling plus others.

Live From Lincoln Center presents the internationally acclaimed pianist Lang Lang and his love letter to New York, the city he considers his adoptive home, set to the music that helped make this city so famous. Live concert repertoire closely mirrors album, but there are several new guest artists. The concert is interspersed with introductory statements from Lang Lang and the guest artists.

The 80-minute programme also includes a stunning solo piano medley shot on the banks of the Hudson River with an arrangement of additional songs inspired by New York, including Billy Joel’s ‘Angry Young Man’, the jazz standard “Take the A-Train”, Joe Jackson’s 1980s hit – “Steppin Out” and the perennial favourite “New York New York”, made legendary by Frank Sinatra.

Треклист:
1. RHAPSODY IN BLUE (George Gershwin)
2. INTRODUCTION (Lang Lang & Kurt Elling)
3. NEW YORK MINUTE featuring KURT ELLING vocals(Don Henley, Jai Winding & Danny Kortchmar)
4. INTRODUCTION (Rufus Wainwright)
5. NEW YORK MORNING featuring RUFUS WAINWRIGHT vocals (Elbow – Guy Garvey, Richard Jupp, Craig Potter, Mark Potter & Peter Turner)
6. INTRODUCTION (Lang Lang)
7. STORY OF OUR TOWN (Aaron Copland)
8. INTRODUCTION (Suzanne Vega, Lisa Fischer & Lang Lang)
9. MEDLEY: SOMEWHERE from WEST SIDE STORY / DIRTY BLVD. featuring SUZANNE VEGA & LISA FISCHER vocals (Lou Reed / Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim)
10. INTRODUCTION (Lindsey Stirling)
11. SPIDER-MAN THEME featuring LINDSEY STIRLING violin (Danny Elfman)
12. INTRODUCTION (Lang Lang)
13. NEW YORK MEDLEY Billy Joel: Angry Young Man New York State of Mind Billy Strayhorn: Take the “A” Train Joe Jackson: Steppin’ Out John Kander & Fred Ebb: New York, New York Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden & Adolph Green: New York, New York
14. INTRODUCTION (Regina Spektor & Jerry Douglas)
15. MOON RIVER from BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S featuring REGINA SPEKTOR vocals & JERRY DOUGLAS dobro (Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer)
16. INTRODUCTION (Sean Jones)
17. TONIGHT from WEST SIDE STORY featuring SEAN JONES trumpet (Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim)
18. INTRODUCTION (Andra Day)
19. EMPIRE STATE OF MIND featuring ANDRA DAY vocals (Alicia Keys, Shawn Carter, Angela Hunte, Bert Keyes, Sylvia Robinson, Janet Sewell & Alexander Shuckburgh)
20. INTRODUCTION (Kurt Elling, Regina Spektor, Andra Day, Lindsey Stirling & Lang Lang)
21. IN EVENING AIR (Aaron Copland)
22. CREDITS Prelude I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso from 3 Preludes (George Gershwin)