Lang Lang to be featured in 'My Week With Marilyn' soundtrack

Internationally acclaimed pianist Lang Lang will be featured in the highly anticipated feature film, My Week With Marilyn to be released November 23rd. Lang Lang has recorded a series of piano solos, including “Marilyn’s Theme” by Alexandre Desplat for the films soundtrack.



Directed by Simon Curtis, My Week With Marilyn offers an uncommonly intimate look at the Hollywood icon, charting the brief, charged connection she forged with a young man who came to understand her better than anyone. Adrian Hodges’ screenplay is set during the summer of 1956 when Monroe was in England honeymooning with her husband, playwright Arthur Miller, and filming The Prince And The Showgirl, the film that famously united her with Sir Laurence Olivier. My Week With Marilyn features a starry cast including Academy Award® nominee Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe, Tony Award winner Eddie Redmayne, Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh, Academy Award winner Judi Dench, Julia Ormond, Dougray Scott, Zoe Wanamaker, Emma Watson, Derek Jacobi, Simon Russell Beale and Dominic Cooper. The film is produced by Trademark Films and is financed and distributed by The Weinstein Company. BBC Films and Lipsync Productions also financed the picture. It was developed in association with the UK Film Council and BBC Films.



“I am thrilled to be making my Hollywood soundtrack debut on such a prestigious film,” says Lang Lang. “Alexandre Desplat has written beautiful music that I have recorded to underscore the action. I am happy that my friend Harvey Weinstein invited me to participate in this incredible project.”



Just one month before the release of My Week With Marilyn, on Saturday, October 22, 2011, over 100,000 people will have the unprecedented opportunity to see Lang Lang on movie screens around the world in a special cinemacast event. Lang Lang will celebrate Liszt’s 200th anniversary on his exact birthdate with a special, live concert featuring the Philadelphia Orchestra. A re-broadcast of the performance will take place on Monday, October 24th in select movie theaters. On October 23rd, this cinemacast will also air in 150 cinemas throughout Europe and Asia as well.



Lang Lang, will perform Liszt’s famed Piano Concerto No. 1 with additional selections from Liszt’s well-known repertoire in conjunction with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Charles Dutoit. The performance will also feature unique footage from this summer‘s iTunes Festival in London, including behind the scenes interviews, commentary and exclusive musical performances.



The Event will be offered in high definition across NCM Fathom’s Digital Broadcast Network (DBN) in hundreds of locations. The event will mark the first time that a live, classical music cinema broadcast will be headlined by a solo artist.



Sony Classical recently announced Lang Lang’s new recording Liszt – My Piano Hero, now available, and DVD Liszt Now! which pays tribute to the life and music of Franz Liszt whose 200th anniversary is celebrated this year. The album Liszt — My Piano Hero features the composer’s Piano Concerto No.1, which Lang Lang recorded with Valery Gergiev and the Vienna Philharmonic. The recording also includes some of Liszt’s most poetic and virtuosic solo piano works and transcriptions such as the Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos.6 and 15, Liebestraum, Grand galop chromatique, the Liszt/Schubert Ave Maria and the famous “La campanella” from Grandes Études de Paganini.


For more information about the Cinecast, visit www.FathomEvents.com