Cinema

Yesterday I was in the realm of shadows. If you knew how strange it is! () You see them roar with laughter yet you cannot hear a sound. Writer Maksim Gorkys comment on the first Russian screenings of the Lumiere brothers films shows how the need was immediately felt, in cinema, for sound and a musical element to accompany the moving images. This album traces the soundtracks birth and gradual development from a simple comment to a language in its own right through the voice of a protagonist that was within and without, the piano, for which numerous original scores and transcriptions by renowned composers were written.