Playing John Williams

Ive done all kinds of things with John Williams music. Ive re-harmonised it, Ive used different time signatures and much more, so that my own voice can flow naturally into it, says Helbock. But despite all the alterations, the melody always stays the same and remains recognisable. Much of the process of adaptation was done intuitively, driven by the emotions that the films sparked in me. So I wrote down the main melodies, I watched the films, before finally developing my improvised versions on the piano and slowly extending them. And so this storyteller at the piano (3sat) gives us a very different John Williams from the one we know from the cinema, but the man in the picture remains unmistakably the doyen of film music himself.

Tracks

1~1~Hedwig's Theme 1
1~2~Theme From E.T.
1~3~Theme From Schindler's List
1~4~Superman March
1~5~Hedwig's Theme 2
1~6~Escapades, 1. Closing In
1~7~Moonlight
1~8~Duel Of The Fates
1~9~Hedwig's Theme 3
1~10~Raiders March
1~11~Hymn To The Fallen
1~12~Theme From Jurassic Park
1~13~Theme From Jaws
1~14~Hedwig's Theme 4
1~15~Star Wars
1~16~A Prayer For Peace

Details

Format: CD
Artist: David Helbock
Release Date: 30 August 2019
Genre: Jazz
Label: ACT Music
Distributor: MGM Music