"Re-Imagining Sondheim is a modern masterpiece of the piano -a superb album on ECM where pianist Anthony de Mare asked 36 composers ranging from Steve Reich to Wynton Marsalis to respond to some of legendary theatre composer Stephen Sondheim's greatest songs. Both a homage and a celebration, Re-Imagining Sondheim makes the case for Sondheim as one of the 20th century's greatest composers - as at home in the concert hall as on the Broadway stage."

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