Liaisons : re-imagining Sondheim from the piano : 37 piano compositions based on the music of Stephen Sondheim.

(Piano Solo Songbook). 37 contemporary composers chose a song by Stephen Sondheim and re-imagined it as a solo piano piece. Contents below: Akiho: Into the Woods (Act I Opening Into the Woods ) Bates: Very Put Together ("Putting it Together" Sunday in the Park with George ) Beglarian: Perpetual Happiness ("Happiness" Passion ) Bermel: Sorry/Grateful ("Sorry-Grateful" Company ) Bischoff: The Ballad of Guiteau ("The Ballad of Guiteau" Assassins ) Bolcom: A Little Night Fughetta ("Anyone Can Whistle" Anyone Can Whistle and "Send in the Clowns" A Little Night Music ) Brown: Birds of Victorian England ("Green Finch and Linnet Bird" Sweeney Todd ) Bunch: The Demon Barber ("The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" Sweeney Todd ) Childs: Now ("Now," "Later" and "Soon" A Little Night Music ) Daugherty: Everybody's Got the Right ("Everybody's Got the Right" Assassins ) de Mare: Sunday in the Park - Passages ( Sunday in the Park with George ) Golub: A Child of Children and Art ("Children and Art" Sunday in the Park with George ) Gordon: Every Day a Little Death ("Every Day a Little Death" A Little Night Music ) Gosfield: A Bowler Hat ("A Bowler Hat" Pacific Overtures ) Heggie: I'm Excited. No, You're Not. ("A Weekend in the Country" A Little Night Music ) Hersch: No One Is Alone ("No One Is Alone" Into the Woods ) Iverson: Send in the Clowns ("Send in the Clowns" A Little Night Music ) Kahane: Being Alive ("Being Alive" Company ) Kline: Paraphrase (Someone in a Tree) ("Someone in a Tree" Pacific Overtures ) Leon: going . . . gone ("Good Thing Going" Merrily We Roll Along ) Lorenz: The Worst Empanadas in London ("The Worst Pies in London" and "A Little Priest" Sweeney Todd ) Marsalis: That Old Piano Roll ("That Old Piano Roll" Follies ) Moravec: I Think About You ("Losing My Mind" Follies ) Muhly: Color and Light ("Color and Light" Sunday in the Park with George ) Musto: Epiphany ( Sweeney Todd ) Newman: Not While I'm Around ("Not While I'm Around" Sweeney Todd ) Rakowski: The Ladies Who Lunch ("The Ladies Who Lunch" Company ) Reich: Finishing the Hat - 2 Pianos ("Finishing the Hat" Sunday in the Park with George ) Rockwell: You Could Drive a Person Crazy ("You Could Drive a Person Crazy" Company ) Roumain: Another Hundred People ("Another Hundred People" Company ) Rzewski: I'm Still Here ("I'm Still Here" Follies ) Sharman: Notes on "Beautiful" ("Beautiful" Sunday in the Park with George ) Sheik: Johanna in Space ("Johanna" Sweeney Todd ) Shire: Love Is in the Air ("Love Is in The Air" A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum ) Speach: In and Out of Love ("Liaisons" and "Send in the Clowns" A Little Night Music ) Turnage: Pretty Women ("Pretty Women" Sweeney Todd ) Vigeland: Merrily We Roll Along ("Merrily We Roll Along" and "The Hills of Tomorrow" Merrily We Roll Along )

The ballad of Guiteau / Jherek Bischoff -- Another hundred people / Daniel Bernard Romain ; optional improv-cadenza by Anthony de Mare -- Being alive / Gabriel Kahane -- Birds of Victorian England / Jason Robert Brown -- A bowler hat / Annie Gosfield -- A child of children and art / Peter Golub -- Color and light / Nico Muhly -- The demon barber / Kenji Bunch -- Everybody's got the right / Michael Daugherty -- Epiphany / John Musto -- Every day a little death / Ricky Ian Gordon -- Finishing the hat : 2 pianos / Steve Reich -- I think about you / Paul Moravec -- going... gone / Tania León -- I'm excited ; no, you're not / Jake Heggie -- I'm still here / Frederic Rzewski -- Into the woods / Andy Akiho -- In and out of love / Bernadette Speach -- Johanna in space / Duncan Sheik -- The ladies who lunch / David Rakowski -- A little night fughetta / William Bolcom -- Love is in the air / David Shire -- Merrily we roll along / Nils Vigeland -- No one is alone / Fred Hersch -- Not while I'm around / Thomas Newman -- Notes on "Beautiful" / Rodney Sharman -- Now / Mary Ellen Childs -- Paraphrase : Someone in a tree / Phil Kline -- Pretty women / Mark-Anthony Turnage -- Perpetual happiness / Eve Beglarian -- Send in the clowns / Ethan Iverson -- Sorry-grateful / Derek Bermel -- That old piano roll / Wynton Marsalis -- Sunday in the park : passages / Anthony de Mare -- The worst (empanadas) in London / Ricardo Lorenz -- You could drive a person crazy : schizo scherzo / Eric Rockwell -- Very put together / Mason Bates.