{"product_id":"within-1","title":"Within","description":"Amazon.com\n\nThe pop charts were once regularly haunted by the melodramatic musings of pianists like Liberace, Ferrante and Teicher and Roger Williams, a sensibility that eventually gave way to the more New Age-y affectations of George Winston and his fellow Wave-format-friendly ivory ticklers. But if producer David Foster has his way, young Phoenix native William Joseph will do for instrumental piano music what the Foster-mentored Josh Groban, Michal Buble and Renee Olstead have done for classical crossover and crooner revivalism. Joseph is blessed with a forceful technique and an ear for drama (he composed the theme for his hometown NHL Phoenix Coyotes when just a teen) that recalls Williams in his prime, and approaches his material with a kitsch-be-damned, crowd-pleasing verve that occasionally invokes 1970s' prog-rock excesses (the artist's own title track and \"Piano Fantasy\") without apology. Bolstered by Foster's usual back-row-of -the-balcony production sensibility, Joseph tackles everything from the classics (\"Ave Maria,\" \"Eternal\"'s reworking of Chopin) to Led Zeppelin (a version of \"Kashmir\" that's as over-the-top as the original), Kansas (vocalist Garou guests on the bathos-drenched \"Dust in the Wind\") and even Muse (\"Butterflies and Hurricanes\" as MOR melodrama) with supreme confidence, if considerably less subtlety. --Jerry McCulley\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0002IQDA6\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B0002IQDA6.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:William Joseph\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Audio CD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case will show wear, and may be in library packaging. Ships fast!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41383646462010,"sku":"DBV.B0002IQDA6.A","price":4.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/B0002IQDA6-0_d3efa76c-233d-4659-be89-8ed0fd472468.jpg?v=1777397368","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/within-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}