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ECM has released a new three-cd set of piano arrangements (and sometimes much more than arrangements) of many of Stephen Sondheim's best songs. Includes works by film composers Thomas Newman, David Shire, Peter Golub, etc.
"US concert pianist Anthony de Mare pays tribute to Stephen Sondheim in a fascinating project. De Mare invited composers from a broad variety of genres from Sondheims own world of musical theater to jazz, classical, pop, film and beyond to re-imagine a Sondheim song of their choice as a solo piano piece.
"Contributing re-composers included Steve Reich, Wynton Marsalis, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Fred Hersch, Ethan Iverson, William Bolcom, Duncan Sheik, Nico Muhly, Eve Beglarian, Gabriel Kahane, Thomas Newman, Jake Heggie, and more - in total, 36 composers, ranging in age from 30 75 and representing seven countries and 29 Grammy, Pulitzer, Tony, Academy and Emmy Awards!"
Digital samples: http://www.amazon.com/Liaisons-Re-Imagining-Sondheim-Anthony-Mare/dp/B013XBW1N6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1443801600&sr=8-3&keywords=LIAISONS+SONDHEIM
CD (not linked to digital album on Amazon for some reason): http://www.amazon.com/Liaisons-Re-Imagining-Sondheim-3-CD/dp/B01356S69W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1443801600&sr=8-1&keywords=LIAISONS+SONDHEIM
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Track list.
A Little Night Fughetta (Arranged By William Bolcom)
Color And Light (Arranged By Nico Muhly)
Finishing The Hat - 2 Pianos (Arranged By Steve Reich)
The Ladies Who Lunch (Arranged By David Rakowski)
Perpetual Happiness (Arranged By Eve Beglarian)
Birds Of Victorian England (Arranged By Jason Robert Brown)
Johanna In Space (Arranged By Duncan Sheik)
You Could Drive A Person Crazy (Arranged By Eric Rockwell)
That Old Piano Roll (Arranged By Wynton Marsalis)
Sorry-Grateful (Arranged By Derek Bermel)
No One Is Alone (Arranged By Fred Hersch)
A Bowler Hat (Arranged By Annie Gosfield)
I'm Excited. No You're Not. (Arranged By Jake Heggie)
The Demon Barber (Arranged By Kenji Bunch)
Send In The Clowns (Arranged By Ethan Iverson)
The Worst (Empanadas) In London (Arranged By Ricardo Lorenz)
I Think About You (Arranged By Paul Moravec)
Very Put Together (Arranged By Mason Bates)
I'm Still Here (Arranged By Frederic Rzewski)
Love Is In The Air (Arranged By David Shire)
Epiphany (Arranged By John Musto)
Pretty Women (Arranged By Mark-Anthony Turnage)
Paraphrase (Someone In A Tree) (Arranged By Phil Kline)
In And Out Of Love (Arranged By Bernadette Speech)
Another Hundred People (Arranged By Daniel Bernard Roumain)
Into The Woods (Arranged By Andy Akiho)
Every Day A Little Death (Arranged By Ricky Ian Gordon)
Merrily We Roll Along (Arranged By Nils Vigeland)
Notes On "Beautiful" (Arranged By Rodney Sharman)
Being Alive (Arranged By Gabriel Kahane)
Not While I'm Around (Arranged By Thomas Newman)
The Ballad Of Guiteau (Arranged By Jherek Bischoff)
Now (Arranged By Mary Ellen Childs)
A Child Of Children And Art (Arranged By Peter Golub)
Going... Gone (Arranged By Tania Leon)
Everybody's Got The Right (Arranged By Michael Daugherty)
Sunday In The Park - Passages (Arranged By Anthony De Mare)
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Hmm, no one at all on this board cares about film composers and many others responding musically to one of the preiminent stage and screen composers of our time?
Well in the words of Luke Skywalker, I do. I care.
There, maybe a Star Wars reference will garner a response.
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Thanks, always hard to know if silence is disinterest or just, well, silence.
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Sometimes, Sean, some of us are away for a while, and missed it on the first posting.
Anyway it's an interesting project. I'm sorry to see nobody seemed to have liked anything from "Passion." Or did I miss something?
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Yes, David, I suspected some folks just missed it. But I hate saying "bumped" and like to see if goading gets a response. And it does, sometimes! 
I actually just received this myself tonight and must sheepishly admit that I have only glancing familiarity with Passion, but no, it doesn't look like it. But it does look like a few numbers combine more than one song, so if so I wonder..... It will take me a while to fit in the careful listening this will require.
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Found it! The number arranged from Passion is Perpetual Happiness by Eve Belgarian.
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Yes, these are all arrangements commissioned for the pianist, so yes, just piano. Duncan Sheik's Johanna in Space does feature "dozens of takes of guitar improvisation through a tape echo" as an environment for the piano. And Steve Reich's Finishing the Hat version is for two pianos.
But that's all I can discern from notes and the web. I'll do more of my sense of this when I get more time to listen.
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