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Thanks for raising this topic, Matt B. I was unaware of Stephan Oliva and have found one of his albums of Bernard Herrmann music on Spotify thanks to this thread. (Ghosts of BH seems hard to get these days.)
I have listened to the Luhl album for one piano, but hadn't thought to look for more, and see he has another on Star Wars for 2 pianos, so I'll give that a listen as well.
I enjoy Joohyun Park's solo piano album of Bear McCreary's Battlestar Galactica music. Never been as fond of the Rozsa piano collections mentioned above - only have Knight Without Armor, will need to give it another listen. (If you enjoy Rozsa, there are a number of different performances of his piano music which conveniently fits on a single disc and are pretty uniformly terrific.) And I have only listened to a couple of tracks so far of Patrick Doyle's recent piano album on Varese, but have enjoyed it.
And of course for a full album of piano film music, you can't go wrong with the expanded LLL release of Grusin's The Firm.
And not mostly film music (except for example songs featured in Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods), but a wonderful new release is Liaisons - Re-Imagining Sondheim - dozens of composers reworking famous and not-so Sondheim songs into piano pieces in lots of different genres. (My thread on this sank like a stone, hope this gives it a bit of new life.)
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I forgot about this one, Ford - I've enjoyed this on Spotify, may make it mine soon.
A couple of great piano versions from Dennis McCarthy on BSX as well - his own solo of Deep Space Nine's theme as done as if were 3am in Quark's Bar (also on LLL's DS9 collection). And his opening piano arrangement of Somewhere in Time on BSX's new John Barry compilation (for mixed ensembles including some solo piano) - the whole album is great, the opening track is sublime.
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I have the Goldsmith but, honestly, it only half works. Some arrangements sound... odd when reduced to one instrument.'
The melodies were all written on a piano first.
Plus in most cases we used the published arrangements as well.
Ford A. Thaxton
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