Luigi Palombi - Cinema: Original Film Soundtracks

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 Gorky�s comment on the first Russian screenings of the Lumi�re brothers� films illustrated the need in cinema to pair visual with aural stimuli, enhancing moving images on the screen with sound and music accompaniment. This CD traces the birth and the development of these soundtracks through the piano, the �voice� of a 'within and without' protagonist.