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Film music.
When incidental music was written by composers such as Grieg, Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Beethoven, it performed essentially the same role as the film music of Georges Auric, for example. This highly successful series restores many of these scores to their original version and even records music that, in the end, never made it to the big screen.
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The name may not be so familiar and neither are some of the film titles, but the music speaks volumes for the talent of composer Gerard Schurmann…The orchestral flavours here – wild, romantic,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, Screen Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The Film Music of Brian Easdale
Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot)
BBC National Chorus of Wales & BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Rumon Gamba
this excellent CD puts [Easdale] back where he belongs, in the top rank of film composers...The young voices of the BBC National Chorus of Wales add a vivid and dynamic dimension to both of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2011, Editor's Choice
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The Film and TV Music of Christopher Gunning
Martin Robertson (saxophone), Craig Ogden (guitar), Nicole Tibbels (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
Gunning does not play things too safe. A bold and original composer, he creates drama and tension through interesting tone and tempo changes, unexpected notes that twist the listener's expectations... —
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Film Music by Mischa Spolianksy
Mark Coles (bass) & Roderick Elms (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Rumon Gamba
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Incapable of shoddy craftsmanship, and truly a 'composer's composer', Rawsthorne brought a professional integrity, great clarity of expression and unerring economy of thought to every field... —
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All the scores here (expertly reconstructed by Philip Lane) are from British films, for which Auric wrote some 30; but he also wrote another 100 or so for French, German, Italian and American... —
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For Michael Curtiz's 1941 big-screen adaptation of Jack London's The Sea Wolf (starring Edward G Robinson as Wolf Larsen, the sadistic captain of the sealer Ghost), Korngold produced one of... —
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Rumon Gamba's 77-minute suite in six parts from Korngold's towering score for The SeaHawk (1940) sensibly follows the action and will leave no listener in any doubt as to the giddy fecundity... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, Editor's Choice
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