Viola Ascendant

From Phantasy (the joyful, exuberant opening work by York Bowen) to Fantasie (the concluding, exhilarating, ever-popular bit of theatre by Franz Waxman), violist Matthew Lipman

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Waxman: Rebecca film score

Franz Waxman’s celebrated 1940 score to Rebecca, said to be his personal favorite, is magnificent: sophisticated, witty, anxious, decadent, and also very extensive (more than

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