David Helbock Playing John Williams (Piano Works XIV)

From “E.T.” to “Harry Potter” and “Jurassic Park” – Great Music from the Movies for Solo Piano. Austrian jazz pianist David Helbock plays music by multiple Oscar- and Grammy-winning American film composer John Williams.We all have the music in our lives from which there is no escape. It reaches deep inside, becomes planted ineradicably in the memory. Other, extra-musical occurrences can often get mixed in with the experience of listening, which has a way of imprinting the music on the mind even more firmly. This was what happened to David Helbock when he discovered cinema for himself and had his first encounters with the music of the American film composer John Williams: "He’s been with me just about all of my life. I can still remember clearly how as a child I saw "E.T." countless times and was excited about t...

Recorded at the ACT Art Collection Berlin, May 10, 2018