Beyond the Screen - Film Works on Piano Rachel Portman

• Rachel Portman (b. 1960): The Cider House Rules:
• 1 Portman: The Cider House Rules: Piano Suite 02:16
• Chocolat:
• 2 Portman: Chocolat: Piano Suite 02:53
• The Pier (from "Never Let Me Go", Arr. for Piano & Cello):
• 3 Portman: The Pier (from "Never Let Me Go", Arr. for Piano & Cello) 02:19
• One Day:
• 4 Portman: One Day: Piano Suite 03:53
• Good Night You Kings (from "The Cider House Rules", Arr. for Piano):
• 5 Portman: Good Night You Kings (from "The Cider House Rules", Arr. for Piano) 02:34
• The Duchess:
• 6 Portman: The Duchess: Piano Suite 02:32
• Letter Box (from "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan", Arr. for Piano & Cello):
• 7 Portman: Letter Box (from "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan", Arr. for Piano & Cello) 03:30
• Girl Rising:
• 8 Portman: Girl Rising: Piano Suite 02:50
• Still Life:
• 9 Portman: Still Life: Piano Suite 03:57
• Vianne Sets Up Shop (from "Chocolat", Arr. for Piano & Cello):
• 10 Portman: Vianne Sets Up Shop (from "Chocolat", Arr. for Piano & Cello) 02:58
• Emma:
• 11 Portman: Emma: Piano Suite 03:10
• I'd Miss You (from "Their Finest", Arr. for Piano):
• 12 Portman: I'd Miss You (from "Their Finest", Arr. for Piano) 02:25
• Snow Story (from "Smoke", Arr. for Piano & Cello):
• 13 Portman: Snow Story (from "Smoke", Arr. for Piano & Cello) 04:57
• Passage of Time (from "Chocolat", Arr. for 2 Pianos):
• 14 Portman: Passage of Time (from "Chocolat", Arr. for 2 Pianos) 02:44
• Frozen Lake (from "The Human Stain", Arr. for Piano & Cello):
• 15 Portman: Frozen Lake (from "The Human Stain", Arr. for Piano & Cello) 03:25
• Life Is Sweet:
• 16 Portman: Life Is Sweet: Piano Suite 02:12
• Book of Photographs (from "Still Life", Arr. for Piano & Cello):
• 17 Portman: Book of Photographs (from "Still Life", Arr. for Piano & Cello) 03:10
• The Last Dinner (from "Despite the Falling Snow", Arr. for Piano):
• 18 Portman: The Last Dinner (from "Despite the Falling Snow", Arr. for Piano) 02:43
• Never Let Me Go:
• 19 Portman: Never Let Me Go: Piano & Cello Suite 05:08
• Good Night You Kings (from "The Cider House Rules", Arr. for Piano) - a calm version:
• 20 Portman: Good Night You Kings (from "The Cider House Rules", Arr. for Piano) - a calm version 01:03
• Total Runtime 01:00:39

Info for Beyond the Screen - Film Works on Piano

On her Sony Classical debut album "Beyond the Screen", film composer Rachel Portman offers a personal and emotional insight into her groundbreaking career. For this, she has re-recorded some of her most popular film scores on piano, including her Oscar-winning soundtrack "Emma", "God's Work and the Devil's Contribution" and "Chocolat". Rachel Portman combines a total of 20 piano arrangements into an emotional musical journey. From the arrangement to the performance: In the production of "Beyond The Screen", Rachel Portman was artistically responsible for everything herself: "There had to be a very direct connection between me as the author and the interpreting. For me, everything originates at the piano anyway, because I write at the piano. I spend the whole day at the piano. I am probably a pianist in my soul. So it feels very satisfying to have played the pieces at the piano. In a way, it's come full circle." Rachel Portman has composed over 100 scores for film and television productions in just under 40 years and is known for her lyrical melodies and pure, transparent orchestrations. She has also composed music for operas (Le Petit Prince) and plays and an oratorio. In 1996 she became the first woman to win an Academy Award in the category Best Musical or Comedy Score for "Emma" and in 2015 the first woman to win a Primetime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Music Composition for a Mini Series, Movie or a Special" for "Bessie". She received further nominations for "Oliver Twist", "The Cider House Rules" and "Chocolat", among others.

Rachel Portman, piano
Raphaela Gromes, cello

Rachel Portman
Born in west Sussex, England, Rachel Portman began composing at age 14 and read music at Oxford University. She gained experience writing music for drama in BBC and Channel 4 films including Mike Leigh's Four Days In July and Jim Henson's Storyteller series.

Portman has written over 100 scores for film, television and theatre. She was the first female composer to win an Academy Award for her original score for Emma. She has received two further Academy nominations for The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, the latter also earned her a Golden Globe nomination.

For the stage and concert hall she has written an opera based on Saint Exupery's The Little Prince (2003) for Houston Grand Opera and the climate change inspired The Water Diviner's Tale (2007), a dramatic choral symphony for the BBC Proms. She has regularly collaborated with acclaimed author Sir Michael Morpurgo together they wrote the Christmas carol We were there (2014) for the Royal Livepool Philharmonic Orchestra and Youth Chorus. Endangered (2012), is an orchestral work commissioned by the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing, for the the World Environment Day Concert in 2013. In 2019 Portman wrote Earth Song for the BBC Singers with text by poet Nick Drake and which also quotes Greta Thunberg. Portman scored the BBC1 animated Christmas special Mimi and the Mountain Dragon (2019) and in February 2020 recorded her first album as compser pianist for Node Records. Portman was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2010.

Raphaela Gromes
first began playing cello at the age of four. She made her debut as a soloist at the age of 14, when she performed the cello concerto by Friedrich Gulda, which earned the highest praise from audience and press alike. She completed her studies under Wen-Sinn Yang, Reinhard Latzko und Peter Bruns. Ms. Gromes gained decisive musical insight in master classes by David Geringas, Wolfgang Boettcher, Frans Helmerson and Yo-Yo Ma.

Raphaela Gromes has been a guest artist at festivals such as the Jungfrau Music Festival Interlaken, the Audi Summer Concerts in Ingolstadt with Kent Nagano, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Munich Opera Festival, the Marvao Interna- tional Music Festival in Portugal, the Edinburgh International Festival and the Rhein- gau Music Festival. Among other awards, she won First Prize in the Richard Strauss Competition in 2012, First Prize at the International Concorso Fiorindo in Turin in 2013 as well as the 2016 German Music Competition Prize in the solo cello category. She has been the recipient of a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes since 2012. She plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume cello from c. 1855 on loan to her from a private collection.

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