Time for Dreams is the second single from the 2008

Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friendsh ...

platinum album

Sehnsucht () is a German noun translated as "longing", "desire", "yearning", or "craving". Some psychologists use the word to represent thoughts and feelings about all facets of life that are unfinished or imperfect, paired with a yearning for ideal alte ...

featuring Chinese pianist

Lang Lang Lang Lang (; born 14 June 1982) is a Chinese pianist who has performed with leading orchestras in China, North America, Europe, and elsewhere. Active since the 1990s, he was the first Chinese pianist to be engaged by the Berlin Philharmonic, ...

. The single was officially released on 8 August 2008 and was peaking at number 19 on German Singles Chart in 2008. The single includes also the new song "Moonflower" and a live version of the song Wunschtraum. A limited edition of the single included an autograph of Christopher von Deylen. The cover art work shows a photo of both artists. The music video was shot in Berlin. Time for Dreams was released on the re-release of the album Sehnsucht and is also a track on the live album Sehnsucht Live. The song became also part of the Lang Lang album "Dreams of China". The song Time for Dreams was composed by Christopher von Deylen and was recorded in the middle of May 2008 in the

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s in Berlin. On 15 June 2008 von Deylen and Lang Lang presented their new song to the press in Berlin. The song Wunschtraum Live was recorded during the Sehnsucht Live Tour 2008 at the concert in Mainz on 20 May 2008. The stereo-mixing was mixed by Bodo Schulte. Time for Dreams became the official song of German broadcaster

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for the Olympic Games in 2008 in China and was played during the pictures of the day.Bild
„Time For Dreams“ ist der Olympia-Song des ZDF
/ref> Schiller and Lang Lang presented the song live on 22 June 2008 at a ZDF broadcast from the lake stage in Bregenz during the UEFA European Championship, with an audience of over ten million television viewers.

Track listing

Maxi single

The single includes a teaser video of Sehnsucht Live.

Credits

* Producer and composed by Christopher von Deylen * Piano: Performed by Lang Lang, arranged by Matthias Suschke and recorded by Tobias Lehmann. Engineer of Piano-soundprocessing: Bodo Schulte. Piano recorded in Teldex-Studio, Berlin. * Artwork by Katja Stier * Photography by Philip Glaser

Music video

The

music video A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a m ...

for "Times for Dreams" was recorded during the works on the song at the Teldex-Studio in Berlin. It shows scenes of the collaboration between Christopher von Deylen and Lang Lang and the recording of the song in the studio.

Charts

References

External links

Official music video of Time for Dreams

Time for Dreams live

The single on Discogs
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