Portrait: The Piano Guys — Wonders (Audio CD)

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Product Details:

• UPC: 888430878020
• Catalog Number: 88843087802
• Product Type: Audio CD
• Brand / Label: Portrait (Sony Music Masterworks)
• Artist: The Piano Guys
• Album: Wonders
• Release Year: 2014
• Genre: Classical Crossover
• Style: Instrumental, Piano & Cello

Product Features

• Format: CD
• Discs: 1
• Tracks: 12
• Guest vocalist: Shweta Subram ("Don't You Worry Child")
• Made in: EU
• Condition: Brand new, factory sealed

Overview

Wonders is the studio album from The Piano Guys, the American group whose piano-and-cello arrangements of pop hits and classical favorites turned them into a YouTube phenomenon and a genuine chart act. It collects twelve tracks in their trademark style: instantly recognizable melodies rebuilt for keyboard and strings, often layered into something far bigger than two players should be able to make.

The program ranges wide. There are pop covers — One Direction's "Story of My Life," the inescapable "Let It Go," Swedish House Mafia's "Don't You Worry Child" with guest vocalist Shweta Subram — sitting alongside the band's playful mash-ups, like "Ants Marching / Ode to Joy," which fuses Dave Matthews with Beethoven. Originals such as "Fathers' Eyes" and "Home" show the group's softer, sentimental side.

The classical end is well represented too: "Kung Fu Piano: Cello Ascends" reworks Chopin, and the closer takes on Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." Throughout, the appeal is the same — familiar tunes, virtuoso playing, and arrangements built for big, cinematic feeling.

Released on Sony's Portrait imprint, Wonders is an ideal pick for fans of melodic, accessible instrumental music and the group's hugely popular video productions.

Interesting Facts

• The Piano Guys built their following on YouTube, filming elaborate music videos in striking locations around the world.
• The group centers on pianist Jon Schmidt and cellist Steven Sharp Nelson, with Paul Anderson and Al van der Beek handling production and video.
• "Kung Fu Piano: Cello Ascends" is based on Chopin's Nocturne and was filmed at the Great Wall of China.
• The album reached high positions on Billboard's classical and overall album charts, continuing the group's mainstream success.
• The cover art assembles several of the world's "wonders," echoing the album's title and the group's globe-trotting video style.
• "Don't You Worry Child" features Indian-Canadian singer Shweta Subram on guest vocals.

Track Listing

1. Story of My Life
2. Let It Go
3. Ants Marching / Ode to Joy
4. Fathers' Eyes
5. Kung Fu Piano: Cello Ascends
6. Summer Jam
7. Batman Evolution
8. Don't You Worry Child (featuring Shweta Subram)
9. Home
10. The Mission / How Great Thou Art
11. Because of You
12. Pictures at an Exhibition

Publishers

© 2014 TPG Productions LLC, under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment. Portrait is an imprint of Sony Music Masterworks. Catalog 88843087802. Made in the EU.

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